Last night I saw Kraftwerk perform in Seattle. During an intermission, hundreds of people in the audience held up their cell phones and PDAs with the back-light on – a perfect 21st Century version of holding up one’s lighter at a rock and roll concert. Neither I nor one around me had seen this happen before – perhaps it happened for the first time last night.
Archive > April 2004
Life imitating art imitating life. Is it still irony?
Regular and much appreciated readers of pleasant will note that I hates me some religion. But hate… that’s not what pleasant is about, now is it? So from now on, unless I make special exceptions, all my links about religion are going to be sent to the Internet Infidels News Wire or to Portland Community College Atheist Discussion. The later resource is where you can read about my hosting an atheist table at PCC for a week.
I sure do wish I had a copy of this Seasme Street song… “Roll and roll, roll over the oats where the goats explode all the oos the oos turn to smoke and started to float closer to the bulldozer that closed up the holes so the cold wind could not blow and the sun did show so the roses could grow and the whole world would know that the goats and the smoke and holes and roses were all okay… okay?” I know that isn’t exactly what the lyrics are but it’s pretty close. Can’t find those lyrics online, can’t find the lyrics to Cheap Trick’s song Reach Out either. Stupid internet.
He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign. – Victor Hugo (1802 – 1885)
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will? – Thomas a Kempis (1380 – 1471)
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