on to 2010

HAPPY NEW YEAR~2010~
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

PLANTed

Taking the unbeaten path can gain you a short cut that saves time and money, so think your way out of the box and don't be afraid to take an original leap. If you keep your feet on the ground, you can be a lightning rod for new ideas that will go to the bank with your name on them. It's definitely a day for inspiration, just don't let it go to waste.

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.~Bette Midler

JudgeNOT

Midas is also remembered for having acted as judge on the occasion of the musical contest between Apollo, playing the lyre, and Marsyas, playing the flute. Some say that Tmolus, father of Omphale (the mistress of Heracles 1), gave the victory to Apollo, but that Midas held the opinion that it should rather have been given to Marsyas. It was then that Apollo addressed Midas and informed him:
"You will have ears to match the mind you have in judging" (Apollo to Midas. Hyginus, Fabulae 191)

Cleopatra had an elite Celtic warrior bodyguard.

God said, "Make humans in our image and in our likeness to manage the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the animals in all the land, and all the reptiles creeping over the land!" ~(Gen.1:26)

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

Legs or

For XMAS what do you prefer Legs Or Breast???

the flow

You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went. You can swear, curse the fates, but when it comes to the endings, you have to let go. And go with the flow...

Ernesto

Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante.

Once more, I'm on the road with my shield on my arm.

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Scientists think unseen, as-yet unidentified dark matter makes up about 95 percent of all matter in the universe. They know it exists because galaxies rotate faster than can be explained by the visible matter within them.

Sophia

Don't let annoying disagreements get your goat --

put your patience hat on and do your best to act

like a saint. It's something to shoot for, anyway.

M-M

Out to lunch: If not back by five, out for dinner also.

“Eros & Thanatos”

SEX & Death
that each of us must face: to remain ordinary, pathetic, beat-down, coasting through a miserable existence, like sheep herded by fate, or you can take control of your own destiny and join us, releasing the caged wolf you have inside. Our purpose is to maintain stability in an unstable world — kill one, save a thousand. Within the fabric of this world, every life hangs by a thread. We are that thread — a fraternity of assassins, weapons of fate. This is the decision that lies before you now: the sheep, or the wolf. The choice is yours

“Climb Mount Niitaka”

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. - George Bernard Shaw
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. - Abraham Lincoln The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. - G. K. Chesterton
I used to have super powers but the psychiatrist took them all away. ~Anonymous

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Vanessa del Rio, ~~~''I was always cast as a tart or something, some like sexual animal of sorts,'' Ms. del Rio says. ''I was the only Spanish woman or woman of color of those days, so they cast me as some hot spitfire or something.''

get you down

Don't let negative thinking get you down criticism for its own sake is a waste of time. Lack of confidence can take the wind out of your sails, so believe in yourself even when others don't. Sail straight and true through the currents of self-doubt and ignore the sometimes jealous remarks of others who would see you give up.

Tina

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Modotti

Pure your gentle name, pure your fragile life,
bees, shadows, fire, snow, silence and foam,
combined with steel and wire and
pollen to make up your firm
and delicate being.

The PIN-up

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure
that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

~Ludwig Wittgenstein

Sex/Cells

Whereof one cannot speak,

thereof one must be silent.

~~~Ludwig Wittgenstein

Punk

PUNK iz Dead!
Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
Erica Jong
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idiot

How come the idiot is always in charge?

REclining

The words reclining nude conjure up a vision of voluptuous femininity, a bed with crumpled sheets, and a painter, mind focused, brush alert, making his mark on the canvas. All very sexual, really. Which has always been the problem.

Fine art, as we know, is respectable. Sex is not. The reclining nude is where they meet. One of the most fascinating of fine art's spectator sports is watching the rude removed from the nude.

i/eye

Eye on Ice [foto by P.B.Toman]
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If you know you're going to win, you needn't show it, and all kinds of competition and conflict is avoided. That goes for the rest of the world, too -- win-win is definitely the way to go.

He hears the silence howling --catches angels as they fall. And the all-time winner...has got him by the balls.

Da Skinny

From the five-star rooms down to skid row

Whether you answer phones or dance on poles

Big money escort or broke on a strole

He don't care about your stats or background

He ain't picky once he puts his mac down

Make you suck it all the way to the ass now

Cause all of y'all heiffers are cash cows

And at first it was just a little game

I found there was only one way to look thin, hang out with fat people.
Rodney Dangerfield

Fall/autumn

Save your money ... God told me I'm going to win.

(Advice to customers at a lotto ticket booth.)

Alas for the autumn air!

Bleak and cold;

plants shake and lose their leaves and petals,

falling into decay.

Abydos

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abydos,_Egypt

Kolor+Design

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color

Murphy’s Law

According to Murphy’s Law, “What can go wrong, will go wrong.”

Writing

this is the oldest human writing going back 77,000 years

In 2002, a discovery at Blombos Cave in South Africa began to change how researchers view the evolution of modern human behavior. Archaeologists reported finding two pieces of red ochre engraved with crosshatched patterns, dated to 77,000 years ago. Many experts interpreted the etchings as evidence of symbolic expression and possibly even art, 40,000 years earlier than many researchers had thought (Science, 11 January 2002, p. 247). Now the Blombos team reports on an additional 13 engraved ochre pieces, many dated to 100,000 years ago. The researchers suggest that some of the engravings may represent an artistic or symbolic tradition. If so, the timeline for the earliest known symbolic behavior must once again be redrawn.
[these are now beleived to be the oldest form of writing to date]~Hieroglyphs carved in stone appeared until the 1st Dynasty of Egypt c. 3200 BC, and was used in monumental formal writing The earliest known hieroglyphic inscription was the Narmer Palette, found during excavations at Hierakonpolis

Power

48 LAWS OF POWER Law 1 Never Outshine the Master Law 2 Never put too Much Trust in Friends, Learn how to use Enemies Law 3 Conceal your Intentions Law 4 Always Say Less than Necessary Law 5 So Much Depends on Reputation. Guard it with your Life Law 6 Court Attention at all Cost Law 7 Get others to do the Work for you, but Always Take the Credit Law 8 Make other People come to you, use Bait if Necessary Law 9 Win through your Actions, Never through Argument Law 10 Infection: Avoid the Unhappy and Unlucky Law 11 Learn to Keep People Dependent on You Law 12 Use Selective Honesty and Generosity to Disarm your Victim Law 13 When Asking for Help, Appeal to People's Self-Interest, Never to their Mercy or Gratitude Law 14 Pose as a Friend, Work as a Spy Law 15 Crush your Enemy Totally Law 16 Use Absence to Increase Respect and Honor Law 17 Keep Others in Suspended Terror: Cultivate an Air of Unpredictability Law 18 Do Not Build Fortresses to Protect Yourself. Isolation is Dangerous Law 19 Know Who You're Dealing with. Do Not Offend the Wrong Person Law 20 Do Not Commit to Anyone Law 21 Play a Sucker to Catch a Sucker. Seem Dumber than your Mark Law 22 Use the Surrender Tactic: Transform Weakness into Power Law 23 Concentrate Your Forces Law 24 Play the Perfect Courtier Law 25 Re-Create Yourself Law 26 Keep Your Hands Clean Law 27 Play on People's Need to Believe to Create a Cultlike Following Law 28 Enter Action with Boldness Law 29 Plan All the Way to the End Law 30 Make your Accomplishments Seem Effortless Law 31 Control the Options: Get Others to Play with the Cards you Deal Law 32 Play to People's Fantasies Law 33 Discover Each Man's Thumbscrew Law 34 Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated like one Law 35 Master the Art of Timing Law 36 Disdain Things you cannot have: Ignoring them is the best Revenge Law 37 Create Compelling Spectacles Law 38 Think as you like but Behave like others Law 39 Stir up Waters to Catch Fish Law 40 Despise the Free Lunch Law 41 Avoid Stepping into a Great Man's Shoes Law 42 Strike the Shepherd and the Sheep will Scatter Law 43 Work on the Hearts and Minds of Others Law 44 Disarm and Infuriate with the Mirror Effect Law 45 Preach the Need for Change, but Never Reform too much at Once Law 46 Never appear Perfect Law 47 Do not go Past the Mark you Aimed for; In Victory, Learn when to Stop Law 48 Assume Formlessness

In The Heart

"Between what matters and what seems to matter,

how will the world we know choose wisely?"