Mark's Scrapbook of Oddities & Treasures.

“From a Martian’s perspective, high schools look virtually...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:00:47 -0800

“From a Martian’s perspective, high schools look virtually the same as sixth grade. There’s no recognition, in the structure of school, that these are very different people with different capabilities.”

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/nurtureshock/archive/2009/11/05/why-teenagers-are-growing-up-so-slowly-today.aspx

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Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:00:16 -0800

"It’s hard to get the news from poetry, but people die everyday for want or lack of what is found..."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:23:45 -0800

“It’s hard to get the news from poetry, but people die everyday for want or lack of what is...

suitep: marjoree: When the red, red robin comes bob, bob...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:23:46 -0800

suitep:

marjoree:

When the red, red robin comes bob, bob bobbin’ along, along…

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Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:23:06 -0800

"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:51:45 -0800

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” - Francis Bacon

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Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:51:46 -0800

Painfully Honest Mobile Home Commercial

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:51:38 -0800

Painfully Honest Mobile Home Commercial

"And whenever I get off a good poem, that’s another crutch to keep me going. I don’t know about other..."

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:10:46 -0800

“And whenever I get off a good poem, that’s another crutch to keep me going. I don’t know...

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Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:09:46 -0800

"My talents are more valuable than yours, so I am paid accordingly, and therefore I am entitled to my..."

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:09:46 -0800

“My talents are more valuable than yours, so I am paid accordingly, and therefore I am...

From Italy.

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:08:59 -0800

From Italy.

From France.

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:31:45 -0800

From France.

"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius."

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:31:45 -0800

“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.” - Fulton J. Sheen

famouslywildly: Edmund Wilson’s all-purpose bugger-off reply.

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:31:46 -0800

famouslywildly:

Edmund Wilson’s all-purpose bugger-off reply.

WHAT A PITY! From 1958.

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:31:45 -0800

WHAT A PITY!

From 1958.

"The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already..."

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:31:47 -0800

“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is...

Love Poem With Toast Some of what we do, we doto make things...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:30:37 -0800

Love Poem With Toast

Some of what we do, we do
to make things happen,
the alarm to wake us up, the coffee to perc,
the car to start.

The rest of what we do, we do
trying to keep something from doing something,
the skin from aging, the hoe from rusting,
the truth from getting out.

With yes and no like the poles of a battery
powering our passage through the days,
we move, as we call it, forward,
wanting to be wanted,
wanting not to lose the rain forest,
wanting the water to boil,
wanting not to have cancer,
wanting to be home by dark,
wanting not to run out of gas,

as each of us wants the other
watching at the end,
as both want not to leave the other alone,
as wanting to love beyond this meat and bone,
we gaze across breakfast and pretend.

—Miller Williams

"All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values."

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:49:47 -0800

“All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.”...

Styles so appealing that you’d never guess at the comfort...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:49:47 -0800

Styles so appealing that you’d never guess at the comfort that goes along…