“Dear Mr. Chinaski: We are returning these four stories but we are keeping ‘My Beer Drunk Soul Is Sadder Than All The Dead Christmas Trees Of The World’. We have been watching your work for a long time and we are most happy to accept this story. Sincerely, Clay Gladmore.” Factotum by Charles Bukowski
From 1920 (pre-internet): The vast accumulations of knowledge—or at least of information—deposited by the nineteenth century have been responsible for an equally vast ignorance. When there is so much to be known, when there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, when everyone knows a little […]
The next time you order an espresso from your local cafe and it arrives in less than five minutes, thank Angelo Moriondo. Google honors Angelo Moriondo, espresso machine inventor, with coffee-stained Doodle
So says RZA, a force behind the influential Wu-Tang Clan, composer of soundtracks, and film director. Fascinated with eastern philosophies, his quote encourages the pursuit of curiosities and passions in order to achieve true success and meaning in one’s life.
Civics and manners are in decline, as is our ability to agree on facts (things that are empirically and scientifically true). I don’t know what to do about that. But it makes debate much more difficult. Toronto Star Article on the legacy of Christopher Hitchens
To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave. Elvis Presley
Marquette Law Celebrates National Poetry Month
She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor ‘Winter is dead” A. A. Milne
Like Punxatawney Phil, there comes a time to stick one’s head out to figure out when it’s time to come above ground. This is that week for me. Time to get the road cases out of the closet and get back down the road. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had […]
