This was in the entertainment column of my home page today:
I have to admit, I’m pretty excited because it sounds like Fear Factor is going to be airing a scene from my all-time favorite porno.
Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste.
Urge to kill rising. I find the reaction here far more threatening than both the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street combined.
Seriously, just read through a bunch of these. It paints an ugly picture.
If you really need access to blacked out Wikipedia pages, Google’s cache feature works wonders.
“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and somthing else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.”
-Chuck Close
We started a tradition of sorts last year by doing Sushi instead of the more traditional Pork on New Year’s day. We did it again this year and it was fucking awesome.
I like that we do things (some consciously, some not) that buck conventional tradition.
If I were to be completely honest, I take secret pleasure in the fact that our tendency as a family to not do things the ‘normal’ way wigs out my mother in law. She’s very much a “you do things because that’s what people do” kind of person and that bugs me. I truly think she’s never taken the time in her life to stop and consider anything on more than a superficial level. It seems most of what she does, believes and lives is based on the idea of “that’s what you do” – and that’s always annoyed me.
So when she calls my wife and asks if we have pork cooking on the 1st, I smile on the inside when my wife explains that we’re doing sushi and the muffled Charlie Brown trumpet voice on the other end of the phone that you can barely make out seems just a little deflated at the notion that someone might actually not do what everyone else does.
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