This comic is hanging in the bathroom where I work. I laughed.
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It’s Not New and It’s Not Order
–Franklin D. Roosevelt
Left, Right and Nothing In Between
Very cool info graphic illustrating how our crazy ass government [doesn’t] work. Click to enlarge.
A New Language. Do you speak it?
Another Language Recently another language has grown up within the one others use. The new language has a special way: it avoids saying obvious things as if they are not so obvious; it never proclaims something that the kind of person being addressed is presumed to know already; it courteously gives credit to the needs…
Peter Saville on Pop Culture
Pop culture used to be like LSD – different, eye-opening and reasonably dangerous. It’s now like crack – isolating, wasteful and with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. —Peter Saville
It’s All Ball Bearings Nowadays
FLETCH: I’m gonna’ need some pliers, and a set of 30 weight ball bearings (it’s all ball bearings nowadays) And I’m gonna’ need about 10 quarts of antifreeze, preferably Prestone. No, make that Quaker State. Chevy Chase from the movie Fletch (1985)
Cassandre: Master of The Airbrush!
Cassandre combined Synthetism and lyricism to create a new form of image to exalt the product: L’Intransigeant was a paen to communications; Etoile du Nord and Nord Express to the railways; and Normandie to the great ocean liners. Master of the airbrush (a technique that enabled him to produce smooth gradations of colour), the use…
The Three Dominant Classes of Contemporary America
We have three dominant classes in contemporary America: We have the poor and outcast… We have a slipping working class that considers itself middle class. And we have powerful, and often greedy, Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats. Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats dominate our political, economic and cultural systems. Powerful words tweeted by…
Among these dark Satanic Mills? William Blake’s Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (from ‘Milton’) by: William Blake (1757-1827) And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England’s mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England’s pleasant pastures seen? And did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here Among these dark Satanic Mills? Bring me my…
Only a weak, deficient being can love.
“…even if I were to possess all knowledge, without love I would be nothing, is not simple that with love, I am ‘something’—in love, I am also nothing but, as it were, a Nothing humbly aware of itself, a Nothing paradoxically made rich through the very awareness of its lack. Only a lacking, vulnerable being…