Marilyn

“We both need to forget about Hollywood. It’s no fucking dream factory. It lives on nightmares. It’ll kill you, like it’s killing me. Except, in my case, I don’t destruct easily.”

-- Marlon Brando per Darwin Porter in “Marilyn at Rainbow’s End”




Marilyn Monroe photographed by a 14 year old fan, Peter Mangone, 1955.

my Anne Frank post

Funny, as in funny-strange, I got some weird reactions to my Anne Frank post. There were only a few responders, but they just kid around the substance of the post - a girl who still aspires before she is rounded up and killed by the Nazis. I worried myself that it was not an authentic quote, but finding a little support online, I went with it. If the quote is false, why doesn't someone just say that? I don't get what's going on.

book-blogging

Last night, for some of my bedtime reading, I took up my printed pages from the book-blogging of "1984", and I started to feel strong doubts about the enterprise.

Should I be a lot more selective about what quotes to keep?

I don't mean that I should just pick about a half-dozen quotes. But maybe it is not a brilliant idea to be quoting 90% of a book, regardless of the convenience of breaking up a great work into bite-size pieces and tying up some commentary with the pieces.

The thing is, by selecting the books that most impress me, it is very hard to select only the best morsels, even if we are talking about 20% of a work. But maybe I need to try. Besides, it would save me a lot of typing, heh.

The filter that I have in mind is: what will I enjoy reading in my Three Journal? The answer is definitely not 90% of the work, nor even 50% of it.

The Debt Ceiling and the Trillion Dollar Coin

After having gone through the big Battle of the Fiscal Cliff, we are now approaching the big Battle of the Deficit Ceiling. Our House Republicans are still making every administrative question a matter of 'nuclear warfare', taking a maximalist position on everything that comes within their province. Krugman gives us a nice summary of this next battle.

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So much time wasted

Monk sighs, "So much time wasted."

Pi looks up, "What, you mean wanking?"

"Yup."

Daimon chortles, "Wasted from doing what else?"

It's true. This whole life has just been a long, extended exercise in wasting. But what else was there to do?

that feline hyper-energy

The cats are restless and wrestling hard with each other. So, I decided not to be so coddling and to let them go out for a bit. We're expecting some serious rain, and the skies look like it, but it should not be rolling in until the morning hours. I was going to play it super-safe and keep them inside, but I guess we should take our opportunities when we can get them. The cats are still very young and energetic. When the rain falls, I will presumably have to keep the cats inside for at least a few days straight, with no morning excursions. That's going to be tough. So, I hope they can get some of that feline hyper-energy out of their system now.

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Funny, in half an hour, the cats eagerly rush back inside the house at the first opportunity. I wonder if they saw that doberman pair. In any case, I'm keeping them in now. They were given their chance.

Sex Secrets of the Stars

"I was a compulsive, serial masturbator. I utilized that organ and rode it for everything it was worth."

-- Robert Downey, Jr.

I trust this was no longer necessary after he made his first movie. Ah, but to those of us for whom woman-slaying success never came...

Politics

"But if there's one thing we know about the great American public right now it is that it is firmly in favor of no cuts on spending, no increases in taxation, and no raising of the debt ceiling limit. Very few of our actual politicians, including President Obama, has been bold enough to tell them that this is impossible, and that they are effectively big babies, incapable of making basic choices about what to pay for, and how."

-- Andrew Sullivan

Daily Fun

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