| KHftCEA 1999-12.1 December |
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KHftCEA 1999-12.1 December
"Truth decays into beauty, while beauty soon becomes merely charm. Charm ends up as strangeness, and even that doesn't last, but up and down are forever." --quoted by Danny Rathjens --- Tempus fugit, babe. Everyone dies young. 99-12-2 --- Finally it looks as if the days of sportsmans crashing may be over- it's been hell since Monday. The lesson learned: Oracle is a Harsh Mistress. 99-12-2 --- "Is that a can of polyurethane in your pocket... or are you just happy to see me... or is it a tumor of some sort?" --Mo, 99-12-4 --- E! Ecstacy! M! Motherfucker Motherfucker! F! From us to you! --EMF 99-12-4 --- "You are closer to death, and that makes you kinder." --wall at Man Ray 99-12-4 --- "I had an exhilarating, deeply moving, sharing moment with the woman who brought you into this world" --Loomis Farkle getting *nasty* --- What is it to be in love? Well, I'm in love, and it means you feel you have sailed into port. At the end of the road, after each day of the petty struggle for power and glory, I get to be with this marvelous human being whose company is continually interesting, whom I admire, who can speak the truth to me, who I am loyal to and fond of to an excessive degree, whom I crave being naked with, and who reciprocates these feelings. There is deep bass drumming and there is also a high degree of civility, I believe. And it does exist. And it's worth your time and trouble to find a person you can be in love with. Surely there are many men you could be in love with, maybe as many as 214, and all you need to do is come across one of them when the stars are shining and the light is right for your complexion. He'll look at you and fasten himself to you for the rest of the evening and it'll be all you can do to shuck him and after a while you'll give up on it and marry him. --Mr. Blue --- My feelings for the KHftCEA reflect my opinion that profound, true things can be expressed in pithy(ish) quotes. So can lies and misdirections, and part of the fun is seeing which hold up when you think about them. Had lunch with Lena- talked about this weekend: E, and odd kisses with new friends. In trying to understand me and Mo, she poses interesting hypotheticals that make me analyze my own motives and feelings in a very good way. 99-12-7 --- The nineties bite, and they leave marks. --David Denby (New Yorker review of "American Beauty") --- Guns don't kill people. It's those damn bullets. Guns just make them go really really fast. --Jake Johanson --- I wonder if Boris Yeltsin wears a cologne, and what it smells like. 99-12-9 --- Wow, I'm spending quite a little bit this holiday season- ah well, a few paychecks will make everything right again. Man, no wonder consumer debt is such a huge problem. 99-12-11 --- Woohoo, I'm riding the T with Ben Franklin! 99-12-16 --- "For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless, and then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match." --Bill Bryson, "Notes from a Big Country" --- Crows are *so* sinister looking, even more so than black cats. (Also, based on Carla's Film Series and Aunt Susan's Isis, I've been wondering if black cats are more likely to be silent than other cats- which might've helped the "witches in disguise" theory (was that a belief?) since to speak would reveal their human voice.) 99-12-20 --- Game idea: advent calendar with a minigame for each day. Also simple fighter (up/down for shield/sword location, thrust button) with Ivan/Kayla's heads 99-12-20 --- Self-interest at its healthiest implicitly recognizes the self-interest of others, and therein lies the possibility of compromises-- and realism. A moral position admits few compromises. That's some of what I took away from Israel. --Robert D. Kaplan, "Israel Now" |