We need to buy what is right for the kid, not what is shoved down their throats during Saturday morning cartoons.
Don't be to hard on cartoons, I learned a lot about what not to do by watching road runner cartoons. I think the coyote's misfortunes taught us about the importance of better planning...:P
Hmm, all I learned was not to trust any product from the ACME corporation :D
They also taught us that if you run off the edge of the cliff fast enough, you'll levitate for no less than five full seconds before falling to nothing more than a dusty landing in a dried riverbed. :P
Acme Boulder, just add water... I now know I should not hold it over my head because you never know when it will rain. Thinking things all the way through to conclusion seems simple but you need to be open to all of the evidence not just ideas which line up with your desired conclusion. I also think carrying the boulder makes you much more aware of the consequences which in turn helps you think about end results. Now go strap a rocket on and get some great motion blur shots>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>ZOOM>>.....
We need to buy what is right for the kid, not what is shoved down their throats during Saturday morning cartoons.
Don't be to hard on cartoons, I learned a lot about what not to do by watching road runner cartoons. I think the coyote's misfortunes taught us about the importance of better planning...:P
Hmm, all I learned was not to trust any product from the ACME corporation :D
Not sure Acme was the source of the problem, the rockets did always fire!
I think it was as epigraph to Mother Night that Kurt Vonnegutt wrote: 'We are what we pretend to be, so we'd better be pretty damn careful about what we pretend to be.'
I don't know if you guys in the Land of Free are allowed to read Vonnegutt these days?
Hell, yeah! I teethed on him :-) "So many different people in the same device!"
...and teach them how to dissect a problem with reason, argue a position with rationale, and solve problems through discourse.
I shall reserve a seat for you in the Republic. The way things are going, it will be a small country, largely dependent on those who resist it; but at least we will know each other by name.
I had a poetry teacher named Robert Creeley, way back when. I remember, in particular, a poem of his called "Oh No!" which went, if I recall correctly:
If you wander far enough,
you will come to it,
and there will be a special
place for you to sit,
And all your friends will be there
with smiles on their faces,
and they will likewise
all have places.
Apropos of nothing much at all, if I may add. Can Louis have the seat next to me, please? I have a few questions for him :-)
...I had a poetry teacher named Robert Creeley, way back when. I remember, in particular, a poem of his called "Oh No!" which went, if I recall correctly:
If you wander far enough,
you will come to it,
and there will be a special
place for you to sit,
And all your friends will be there
with smiles on their faces,
and they will likewise
all have places.
Apropos of nothing much at all, if I may add. Can Louis have the seat next to me, please? I have a few questions for him :-)...
You'll choose your own, Bear, seat or company, and I remember Bob Creeley (cutting up his speech into ever shorter lines, till they were poems) from Vancouver, in the 80s, was it?
As I sd to my
friend, because I am
always talking, – John, I
sd, which was not his
name, the darkness sur-
rounds us, what
can we do against
it, or else, shall we &
why not, buy a goddamn big car,
drive, he sd, for
christ's sake, look
out where yr going.
I liked the article and have had recent conversations with myself in the car along these lines. I appreciate the intellectual honesty of using members of your own political creed as examples of what not to do. That lends more heft to the article as a whole. I'm sure the same exists on the left, but to observe the speck in your own eye first is refreshing.
...I had a poetry teacher named Robert Creeley, way back when. I remember, in particular, a poem of his called "Oh No!" which went, if I recall correctly:
If you wander far enough,
you will come to it,
and there will be a special
place for you to sit,
And all your friends will be there
with smiles on their faces,
and they will likewise
all have places.
Apropos of nothing much at all, if I may add. Can Louis have the seat next to me, please? I have a few questions for him :-)...
You'll choose your own, Bear, seat or company, and I remember Bob Creeley (cutting up his speech into ever shorter lines, till they were poems) from Vancouver, in the 80s, was it?
As I sd to my
friend, because I am
always talking, – John, I
sd, which was not his
name, the darkness sur-
rounds us, what
can we do against
it, or else, shall we &
why not, buy a goddamn big car,
drive, he sd, for
christ's sake, look
out where yr going.
...I had a poetry teacher named Robert Creeley, way back when. I remember, in particular, a poem of his called "Oh No!" which went, if I recall correctly:
If you wander far enough,
you will come to it,
and there will be a special
place for you to sit,
And all your friends will be there
with smiles on their faces,
and they will likewise
all have places.
Apropos of nothing much at all, if I may add. Can Louis have the seat next to me, please? I have a few questions for him :-)...
You'll choose your own, Bear, seat or company, and I remember Bob Creeley (cutting up his speech into ever shorter lines, till they were poems) from Vancouver, in the 80s, was it?
As I sd to my
friend, because I am
always talking, – John, I
sd, which was not his
name, the darkness sur-
rounds us, what
can we do against
it, or else, shall we &
why not, buy a goddamn big car,
drive, he sd, for
christ's sake, look
out where yr going.
Yah, that's another of my absolute favorites of his. Vancouver, in the 80's, sounds about right.
I think the death of reason is a very real and current threat to the development of society.
I'd substitute a complete lack of common sense.......I'm constantly amazed to see how many people manage to bumble through life without one whit of common sense.
I think "common sense" is exactly the problem. It is the sense that me and my friends share, hence it is common. It needs not be examined, proven, or tested, because the only people we talk to, hold it in common. It is a fine guide for a shared religion,or an art movement, as long as you don't confuse a mutually agreed opinion with a fact. Facts have to rise to a higher standard.
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
Albert Einstein quotes
...i got to tell you , your posts are good to read.
And I cannot help but envy you for your signature.
actually there is lot of truth in my signature, i really make lots of spelling mistakes. So decided to joke about it.
let me ask you one more thing (sorry for brief thread jacking), where did you eat saag paneer. Its indian thing, and i am forced to eat many times. (my wife loves it though).
... where did you eat saag paneer. Its indian thing, and i am forced to eat many times. (my wife loves it though).
Top shelf, Saag right to left and vice versa -heat n' serve. To me, East Indian food is the best there is. The rest of the world, as far as I'm concerned, is still learning. :-D
