Echoes in a Hollow Space

Random quote of the day:

“There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys; they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked out the sum for themselves.”

—Søren Kierkegaard, Journal, January 17, 1837



Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Random quote of the day:

“We are walking through fake scenes, but ourselves, as we walk through these scenes, are real.”

—Haruki Murakami, interview, The Paris Review, No. 170, Summer 2004

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day: 

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity. That is, something that can’t be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn’t be happy with.”

—Joseph Brodsky, “A College Commencement Address,” Less Than One: Selected Essays

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

There's a sight I've seen many mornings on my way to work: a guy in a wheelchair begging for money at the median strip of a busy intersection in Marina del Rey--Mindanao and Lincoln. I make a left turn there into the Marina coming to work and he frequently arrives at his begging location about that time. I think he makes a decent chunk of change at this location. The thing is, I've seen this tableaux develop over time.

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And now for something completely different...

Stupid pet trick of the day: Talking starlings have a habit of shuffling words around or squishing them together. This is a well-known trait, and not exclusive to Baby the Talking Starling Who Lives At My House. The roommate told him so often that he was "a sweet, sweet baby bird" that he started saying, "Sweet, sweet baby bird." Apparently that was too much of a mouthful because he took the "sw" of sweet and the "aby" of baby and has now started saying, "Swabbie!" He's very enthusiastic in his use of the word.

My dad, the former Marine, told me lots of stories about swabbies, none of them flattering, and a bad influence on babies of all sizes and species. So I've inquired of Baby if he's sure he wants to be talking about them. He just replies, "Swabbie!"


Random quotes of the day:

"A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves."

—Bertrand de Jouvenel


"Happy is the child whose father goes to the devil."

—16th century proverb

Disclaimer for the Quote(s) of the Day:

These quotes do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, The Universe or its subsidiaries, Leonard Maltin, Siegfried and Roy, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. However, they frequently reflect the views of the Cottingsley Fairies.