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read and enjoy. or not. today's dwight yoakam's birthday. as you may or may not know by now, i love the marking of a year gone by with a celebration. it's a congratulations of sorts. getting older is a serious pain in the ass and i love it. when you hear "you've got 6 months or so; might want to get your things in order" it's fun to count every month after that.

i was watching this kinda lousy movie called Constantine and there's this actor in it named Pruitt Taylor Vince.  i forgot about him.  he drools and wriggles like nobody's business. he's from baton rouge and came into acting by mistake; a computer mishap enrolled him in an acting class by mistake. lucky us.

i'm going to sign off.  this blog is pretty dumb.  there are a million topics i want to touch. there are a billion injustices that make me angry.  ...but not tonite.  i've always been taught to keep that stuff to myself.  maybe i will.  in the meantime, here are some fancy quotes and whatnots.

A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be
compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he
has been hurt. -G.K. Chesterton

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. -Thomas Pynchon

“Just me and a thousand good-byes.”
-MichaelTimmins

"Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree,
grow for ages, not hurt anyone."
-Czeslaw Milosz

tropism (TRO-piz-uhm) noun
The turning or bending (typically by growth instead of movement)
of an organism in response to an external stimulus.

“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.” -Abraham Joshua Heschel

"...the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. There are others besides you who have worn that look--"
~~Marianne Moore

"People sense a home where love is dying."
~~Martin Roper 'Our House'

volitant (VOL-i-tuhnt) adjective
1. Flying or capable of flight.
2. Active; moving about rapidly.

mulligrubs (MUL-i-grubz) noun
1. Grumpiness; colic; low spirits.
2. An ill-tempered person.

"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the
beginning of wisdom." -Theodore Rubin

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. -Thomas Jefferson

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get
better. It's not." -Dr. Seuss

“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
-Samuel Beckett

“In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street.”
-David Markson, Wittgenstein’s Mistress