Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.
- Anne de Lenclos
Sometimes things happen to make you sad, and sometimes you are just sad for no discernable reason.
Today has been a difficult day for a dear friend and roommate of mine. She was telling me (via text message on my cell phone) how sad she was feeling (and for very good reasons, even if through no [...]
COURAGE
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, / The soul that knows it not, knows no release / From little things; / Knows not the livid loneliness of fear, / Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear / The sound of wings.
How can Life grant us boon of living, compensate / For dull grey [...]
Sometimes, you just need to watch a cheesy movie that brings warm fuzzies and feelings of nostalgia, and have a fond place in your heart. Movies that make you say, “Oh yeah! I loved that movie growing up!” Movies that make you gasp when you hear of a friend who has never [...]
Want what?
An iPhone.
Watch the Macworld San Francisco 2007 keynote address. It’ll blow you away.
Seriously, I’m feeling quite giddy about it all.
The iPhone.
Barack Obama is considering running for president in 2008. If he does, and wins the election, he will be the first black president our nation has ever had. (Side note: We don’t have to call them African-Americans anymore, we can now call them blacks. Personally, we should just call them Americans, but whatever.)
WARNING: POLITICAL DUMMY [...]
Sports announcers who get so into the game they’re calling that they scream and get all agitated when a play is going down. I can almost see them jumping around in their box.
The internet. Where else can you find out that your neighbor was arrested for simple assault?
Cheez-its. Seriously, it’s this little cracker that gets [...]
So my neighbor got arrested last night.
Yup, just like that.
I’m sitting in my room, about five minutes into the movie Paper Moon, when my roommate walks in and tells me that they’re arresting someone outside.
WHAT?!? This kind of drama is every writer’s dream and I’d nearly missed it happening right outside my own building.
I ended up [...]