Steven Purcell |
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Some Christmas carols with updated lyrics reflecting on the past year, such as:
The first new oil
The coastlines did see
Bubbled up from a well
That went boom for BP.
And to the Gulf
It gave a great scare,
Coating lobsters and seabirds
And fish ev’rywhere.
New oil, new oil, new oil, new oil.
How many beaches can one well despoil?
Then from BP
T. Hayward did say
That the ruddy disaster
Was spoiling his day.
He said he wished
To get his life back.
To no one’s surprise
He came under attack.
Oh hell. Oh hell. Oh hell. Oh hell.
Some people urged that his head plug the well.
The 8th Dwarf |
My favourite Prime minister of Australia
It was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine these things being done to us.
* 1992 The Redfern Speech, launching International Year of Indigenous Peoples
Steven Purcell |
“If I may throw out a word of counsel to beginners, it is: Treasure your exceptions! When there are none, the work gets so dull that no one cares to carry it further. Keep them always uncovered and in sight. Exceptions are like the rough brickwork of a growing building which tells that there is more to come and shows where the next construction is to be.”
–William Bateson, in The Method and Scope of Genetics, 1908.
Steven Purcell |
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“It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.” -Mark Twain
Oh, that's one of my favorites from Twain, and he's in my top three of cool quotable people (along with William Blake and Oscar Wilde).
Nice one!
Crimson Jester |
Crimson Jester wrote:“It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.” -Mark TwainOh, that's one of my favorites from Twain, and he's in my top three of cool quotable people (along with William Blake and Oscar Wilde).
Nice one!
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark TwainThe Eldritch Mr. Shiny |
God heard the embattled nations sing and shout
'Gott strafe England' and 'God save the King!'
God this, God that, and God the other thing -
'Good God!' said God, 'I've got my work cut out!'
- J.C. Squires
"For [Dr. Rankine] Good, there is a wealth of evidence that unmistakably points to the idea that [Charles] Darwin's illness was a 'distorted expression of the aggression, hate, and resentment felt, at an unconscious level, by Darwin towards his tyrannical father'. These deep and terrible feelings found outward expression in Darwin's touching reverence towards his father and his father's memory, and in his describing his father as the kindest and wisest man he ever knew: clear evidence, if evidence were needed, of how deeply his true inner sentiments had been repressed."
- Peter Medawar
The Eldritch Mr. Shiny |
"My pen knows what to do. I close my eyes and I see this girl who glows. A girl who radiates. When she smiles, she beams. She warms my heart. I open my eyes with a feeling of floating past all the garbage around me. I will emerge unscathed because I will not endeavor to hide myself from whatever is coming. Bring on the worst. I welcome it with open arms."
- Rollins
"If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you."
- Rollins
"I wonder if the guy at the gun store would give me a discount on the bullets I'll need if I told him what I was up to."
- Rollins
"I want to blow these pieces of shit out of the sky when they come over the roof of my apartment. I want to take them to my station and beat the shit out of them. I want Everything. Because I'm lonely. Because I'm insane and sick and can't talk to people. I try and then the black wall rises and hurls me back into my darkened room. I want her to know me. I don't want to know more about sickness and insanity. I want to stop running. I want her to hold me in her arms. I want to think she's an angel. Help me before I turn into still breathing black cancer. Please save me from the Inferno, the Abyss. Save me from myself."
- Rollins
Phillip0614 |
"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." - Attributed to Winston Churchill
"You don't have a Soul. You are a Soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis
I said to the man
who stood at the gate of the year,
“Give me a light that I may tread safely
into the unknown.”
And he replied,
“Go out into the darkness
and put your hand into the hand of God.
That shall be to you
better than the light
and safer than a known way!” - poem by Minnie Louise Haskins; also used by King George VI.