Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

- Rita Mae Brown

"Everyone knows what to do except me."

—Fred, a few months before he passed away.

my ten year old niece wrote a crime story for a class project. This is from it:

life is a moving walkway. if you're unlucky it's a very long one.

It's not as easy to feel good as it once was. To feel good when I was 21, all I had to do was to smoke a joint. Now I have to turn off my phones, do tai chi for an hour, drink a strong cup of coffee, and stay away from bad people, so I can feel good for an hour or two  knowing when it ends, I'm gonna feel like the miserable 59-year old prick that I actually am.

Iggy Pop

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

-John Maxwell

 smokinsean wrote: 





Lovely.

"So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corner of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely if ever crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little."

-Stephen King

"The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a tellar but for want of an understanding ear."

Stephen King

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
~Eleanor Roosevelt

 phineas wrote: 
A geoduck is just the Canadian word for a mule-tortoise hybrid. Maybe you're thinking of a tondart?

 BlueHeronDruid wrote: 

 winter wrote: 
No, no, that's where you're wrong, of course: a treavle is more like geoduck, albeit without the personality.

 phineas wrote: 
That's a poor Jamaican.

 manbirdexperiment wrote: 
No, you're thinking of a treavle.

A craven is part cranberry, part ventricle. The Noldor had a taboo about eating ventricles.

 manbirdexperiment wrote: 
That's a rastbega.

 oldslabsides wrote: 
As could Mr. Slugg, below...

 oldslabsides wrote: 
I thought a craven was a cross between a cranberry and raisin. 

We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is not said: that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens. Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda.

~ Fëanor, from The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

good lord that man could write

Speak softly and carry a big lunch.

Bub Slugg