The reason we need love:

"...Steady my soul and ease my worry
Hold me when I rattle like a hummingbird hummin'... "


-Ryan Adams

Ta da!







(kira can accomplish anything she sets her mind to.)

Finnegan's Wake

A few notes from John Bishop taken from the introduction of Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce:

"It is, perhaps, the single most intentionally crafted literary artifact that our culture has produced."

"it...grew more and more strange and obscure as Joyce made decisions to write it in a language of 'punns and reedles' "

"...to adopt an incessantly allusive style..."

"Its admirers see in it a comprehensive summa of twentieth-century culture and letters; its detractors, an arrogant compilation of arcane materials eccentrically patched together for the amusement of the literary elite."

"one doesn't need to comprehend it as a totality to profit from it or enjoy it."

"it can sometimes seem that one is doing extremely well if one makes sense of only a sentence or two on a single page. "

"the book serves as something of a Rorschach test..."


(and so on.)


I flipped through the book; I'm sort of intrigued. It might be fun to buy a copy and just write all in in, point out the strange references, share it with a couple people and have them do the same thing. Fill it up with sticky notes, take it a page at a time, not necessarily in order. It's got sort of a beautiful rhythm to it:

"Here she is, Amnisty Ann! Call her calamity electrifies man." (page 207)

Crush Du Jour

Grady Sizemore of the Cleveland Indians.

AKA the only player on any team who I find attractive.
(Kaz is almost there. Not quite.)

Hence making the Indians my second favorite team in baseball.

That, and Kenny Lofton is adorably endearing.

Foux Da Fa Fa

#2 of the Essential House Youtube Videos: Pretty much everyone who comes over has to watch this, the other one that everyone watches is The Magic Position, see older posts for that.

(It is from Flight of the Conchords.)

Go Rockies!