| ding dong |
[04 Jul 2008|01:27pm] |
The sum of evil in the world reduced yet again.
And on the 4th of July! Ha!!
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| The Cracked Cauldron |
[10 Mar 2008|03:08pm] |
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I think I'd recognize this passage in any language. Terribly beautiful and sad, I find it.
Il s'était tant de fois entendu dire ces choses, qu'elles n'avaient pour lui rien d'original. Emma ressemblait à toutes les maîtresses; et le charme de la nouveauté, peu à peu tombant comme un vêtement, laissait voir à nu l'éternelle monotonie de la passion, qui a toujours les mêmes formes et le même langage. Il ne distinguait pas, cet homme si plein de pratique, il ne croyait que faiblement à la candeur de celles-là; on en devait rabattre, pensait-il, les discours exagérés cachant les affections médiocres; comme si la plénitude de l'âme ne débordait pas quelquefois par les métaphores les plus vides, puisque personne, jamais, ne peut donner l'exacte mesure de ses besoins, ni de ses conceptions, ni de ses douleurs, et que la parole humaine est comme un chaudron fêlé où nous battons des mélodies à faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait attendrir les étoiles.
With echoes, I'm sure, of this:
E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.
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| teh hot |
[24 Feb 2008|02:11pm] |
"Cette idée la fit haleter de convoitise..."
- from Madame Bovary
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| interesting find |
[07 Feb 2008|01:49pm] |
Found one of these at the library; bought it for a buck. Not a first edition, unfortunately, but still, a pretty cool find.
Update: It's a facsimile copy of the signature, which appeared on a bunch of Unwin books in the sixties. See here: http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/press/fascimilesignatures.htm
Still, a cool copy to have.
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| iridescent clouds |
[25 Nov 2007|11:40am] |
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I saw clouds like these (November 25, APOD) on this day. Except that they were about four times more dramatic when I saw them.
Also, the moon has been stunning this week. Halos and everything.
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| what is beauty |
[15 Oct 2007|12:43pm] |
this
It's James Watson's answer to the latest Edge question. Every time I look at it I get chills.
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| guess who I saw today |
[06 Oct 2007|09:15pm] |
Rhymes with Lewd Ball.
He radiates charisma. Really amazing. He was a few people ahead of me at the grocery store, and everyone was completely cool about it, except for a minor bit of celebrity flutter action spreading in waves around him. I actually made eye contact with him, too, but that's probably not hard when my eyes expand to the size of soupspoons.
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| reminder to myself |
[22 Sep 2007|07:01pm] |
If I see this, it means I'm online, and that means I should immediately:
GET THE HELL OFF THE INTERNET.
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| loonie parity |
[20 Sep 2007|09:13am] |
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Everywhere & Allover |
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There's something really unnerving about seeing your US dollars lose 20 percent of their value in the space of two short years. Fortunately, we don't have many of those rapidly-becoming-worthless scraps of paper left.
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| Brad |
[09 Aug 2007|10:07am] |
This news is a few days old, apparently, but I stumbled across it today.
Since a lot of the people on my friends list have been on lj for six or seven years, this will mean more to you than to most of the newer users: Brad is leaving Six Apart.
What a ride, eh?
Remember when we could write directly to him asking him to straighten out some mess on here?
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| amazing thing |
[23 Jul 2007|11:03pm] |
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The final Harry Potter book came out on Saturday; it's now Monday night, and nearly everyone I know who was going to read it has already read it. By the middle of the week, I wouldn't be surprised if the vast majority of all copies of the book have been read at least once.
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| done |
[22 Jul 2007|09:35pm] |
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I love libraries; they always come through for me.
I've realized, too, after several days not spending any time online, that I really don't like the internet very much. It's much better in real life, so I'll continue spending almost all of my time there.
Ciao.
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| hiatus from all the internet |
[19 Jul 2007|12:07am] |
I'll be back online after I read the final Harry Potter book. Before then, I won't even be checking email. Total internet blackout.
Ciao.
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| on another planet |
[28 Jun 2007|11:22am] |
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Healing Dream |
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It's true. I'm living on a different planet.
First of all, if you're in Toronto and reading this, go outside right now with sunglasses on (preferably brown ones) and look at the sun!! There's a huge rainbow-coloured halo around it.
As I was walking home from the grocery store, I passed a cop and pointed to the sky and told him about the rainbow. Instead of just grunting at me or tensing up and reaching for his gun, he said, "yes, it's from the scattering of particles in the stratosphere, which is why it looks like a rainbow."
A cop.
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| highlights from the dyke march and celebration |
[23 Jun 2007|11:24pm] |
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1. Melissa Ferrick performing "Drive" and the crowd singing along. It was great, too, to see the people in the nearby apartments dancing on their balconies.
2. The Indigo Girls concert, especially the rage filled fuck you Christian right song at the end. Holy crap did they kick ass. We didn't wait in line to get into the enclosed area, but we went down along the right side of the stage, where there's a pedestrian walkway through the alley, and we ended up with a great view, relatively close.
3. Flesh. Flesh is always nice. Hopefully tomorrow will be a bit warmer so that more people can walk around nude. There was a guy who looked remarkably like Orlando Bloom. He wasn't nude; I just happen to be mentioning it in this numbered point. I wouldn't be completely surprised to learn that it was actually Orlando Bloom, but I highly doubt that it was.
4. Bitch. Her music was a bit hit and miss, I thought, but it was so cool when I realized that she was the same Bitch as the one in Shortbus.
5. Sign interpreters. I love watching sign interpretations of musical performances. Almost as awesome as seeing sign interpretations of erotica. Music and sex gain quite a bit with added gestures.
6. This city is wonderful. Have I mentioned that recently?
Other highlights from the day:
1. Seeing Lenticular clouds over the city!! I've always wanted to see lenticular clouds, and today around 4 o'clock there were some here. Not nearly as dramatic as they can sometimes get, but still, it was exciting. I was probably the only one in the city going into rapture over them, but I'm used to that kind of thing.
2. Watching a sparrow pick up a long white feather for its nest. The sparrow had some difficulty maneuvering and had to try twice before it successfully got the feather to its nest.
3. I spend a couple hours reading in French at a cafe. Actually, half of the time I sat there cringing as I listened to a complete Windbag with a capital W declaim about all sorts of subjects on which he knew next to nothing but believed himself the expert to end all experts. He's the second total Windbag I've heard at that cafe. I hope it's not a trend.
4. Hanging out at the Distillery District for a while, listening to a really good band playing music I would never otherwise listen to (i.e. country-ish). But the vocalist's voice was excellent; she reminded me a bit of Neko Case.
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| Pride Week Toronto |
[22 Jun 2007|10:48pm] |
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This is one of the very best things about this city. The parades both go right by where I live, so basically I just have to walk out the door Saturday and Sunday afternoons to be surrounded by a million beautiful people celebrating pride week. Not a day goes by that I don't love this city more and more.
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| crap |
[13 Jun 2007|05:08pm] |
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I was away this weekend and wasn't really able to keep up with the Paris news. I guess I spoke too soon in my last post. She's back in jail! FUCK!!!!!!@111@@!111
Something about her parents skipping in line, too. That's a good thing. How much would it suck if she wasn't able to see her parents??!
Anyway, I think she's going through some sort of major life change or something. I can't wait til she's out of jail and we get to see what's up with the new Paris.
I know I never mentioned this before, but my middle name is now Paris. I had it legally changed a few months ago. It's easier to change my name now that I live in Canada. Kick ass.
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| Paris Hilton out of jail!! |
[07 Jun 2007|02:48pm] |
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I, for one, am glad. Hopefully, she's not actually ill in any sort of permanent way.
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| poor pluto |
[31 May 2007|09:32pm] |
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Oh, man, this is enough to make a person cry.
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| illegal activity |
[30 May 2007|11:01pm] |
I know a lot of you disagree with this, but isn't it just common sense that if you have an interest in something that's obviously illegal or extremely controversial, you should be careful about broadcasting it to the whole bloody world?
Livejournal has every right to shut you up if you lack the ability to play with a modicum of tact. Why should they risk _anything_ for you when you don't have the common sense to keep yourself under the radar?
Every time LJ Abuse does anything that's controversial, half of the users here start threatening to leave. Your precious rights are being impinged upon. Oh, poor, poor you!! Take a look around you. What do you see? A whole fucking world that would shut you up if it could.
It's called learning through experience that the world is not on your side. LJ isn't on your side, either; it never has been, and why in hell should it be in the first place??
It's called not being a cry baby about it. It's called doing what you want anyway, but being clever and careful about it so that the big ugly world doesn't notice you even though it's always looking.
So give me a fucking break from all the whining and bravado. LJ is good for some things and not good for others. It's not your private playground where you can do every single thing you want to do with no consequences whatsoever. If you still think such a private playground exists online _anywhere_, maybe it's time to get over your delusions and join the real world, even if it's a virtual one.
(Comments off because I already know some of you (even some of you who I have tremendous respect for) utterly disagree with me. And anyway, I'm hardly online anymore and don't have time to engage in a useless debate. Those who are going away from LJ, I'll miss you.)
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