| KHftCEA 2000-02.1 February |
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KHftCEA 2000-02.1 February
It's possible to be in love with three people at the same time, maybe four, but it does get to be time-consuming, and most of us don't require that much love. --Mr. Blue --- Sportsmans did a shade under $60K/day from August 1 'til now. 00-2-1 --- Going home from my last working day at Banta. Very bittersweet. 00-2-2 --- b-attitude (last night I was thinking of Banta B•media/B•commerce puns) 00-2-4 --- Just finished the short story collection "The Ex-Files". The last story involved a farm couple, miracle transformations, three wishes at death, life hereafter. I knew without looking that this was written by a woman. Maybe it was because it was mostly the wife's point of view, but somehow it struck me as something that wasn't a man's view of the cosmic. --- Dear Mr. Blue, My girlfriend and I have been friends for five years and living together for over six months now and talking about marriage. I'm crazy about her -- she means the world to me -- and I have no serious misgivings. In fact, it's that lack of misgivings that worries me: How do I know if I'm thinking about all the implications? Concerned About My Calm Dear Concerned, What's to think about? You'll both get (1) older and probably (2) heavier and (3) duller and your love will be tried by (4) ugly little things you say and (5) sheer ennui and children who will cost you (6) sleep and keep you in a state of (7) paranoia and (8) self-doubt for years and (9) meanwhile there's the ebb and flow and gradual diminution of the sexual urge and (10) the fact that you look at your spouse sometimes and feel you married a complete stranger. But heck, a lot of that stuff happens to single people too. And if you marry a true friend, then it's vastly easier. And if you're crazy about her and she means the world to you, then how could you not? --- Romance is an act of imagination, and the human imagination is infinitely capable of great leaps, including forgiveness and renewal. --Mr. Blue --- cuntcake! clitopotamus! 00-2-8 --- "Your secret mantra is 'Moo.'" --Swami Pete ("Questionable Swamis", Life in Hell) --- "Any time of the day is a good time for pie." --Fabienne, Pulp Fiction --- www.charba.com --- So tonight I pop the question to Mo. It's a pretty amazing thought. I suspect we can be happy for a long time. 00-2-14 --- "I'm the opposite of hypochondriacal. I'm not entirely enamored of the idea of living forever." --Edward Gorey --- We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one. --Kurt Vonnegut, Jailbird --- You have not lived until you hear Wes Montgomery's version of Round Midnight on at least the album, Pretty Blue.... Do that at once!!! --David Altschuler --- It was pity stayed his hand. "Pity I don't have any more bullets," thought Frito. --Bored of the Rings --- Off to Tiffany's buy a ring for Mo. 00-2-19 --- "At the end of those two hours, if you turned down the volume of your TV and you listened real carefully, you could hear Western civilization crumbling around you." -- Robert Thompson on "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?" --- If I love you, what business is it of yours? --Johann van Goethe --- So after a weebit of fuss Mo has her diamond, from E B Horn. There definately is someting about adorning your beloved with such a rock. 00-2-23 --- McCain won Michigan and Arizona. Maybe it won't matter,except to give the Dems a boost in November. I'm not sure how I feel about him. What issues matter to me? I don't want a pro-lifer. Beyond that, I don't know. I'm not even sure who among the 4 canidates is the most moderate, which is what I'm really after. 00-2-23 --- VEGETARIANS Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy And we eat them. --Edmond Conti --- Ben Franklin's "Fart Proudly" book 00-2-24 --- Fun and Useful. What else is there? Nice, I guess, as in charitable. Holy for some people. I guess they're all a subset of "useful". 00-2-25 |