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While I still may not have anything to say, I do have a lot of stuff to show. My college semester has begun so my lax updates will be even.....laxer. Doesn't mean I'll abandon this blog. It just means I'll be busier.

As another tribute to Senator Kennedy, here is an article done about him and his love of poetry. He was reading for The Academy of American Poets at Poetry & the Creative Mind, which is an annual fundraising benefit for the Academy of American Poets in 2004. The transcript of here can be found here.

Below is one of the poems senator Kennedy speaks fondly of. Its called "The gift outright" by Robert Frost.

~ The Gift Outright ~

The land was ours before we were the land's.
She was our land more than a hundred years
Before we were her people. She was ours
In Massachusetts, in Virginia.
But we were England's, still colonials,
Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,
Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
Something we were withholding made us weak.
Until we found out that it was ourselves
We were withholding from our land of living,
And forthwith found salvation in surrender.
Such as we were we gave ourselves outright
(The deed of gift was many deeds of war)
To the land vaguely realizing westward,
But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced,
Such as she was, such as she would become.

~ Robert Frost; 1874-1963 ~

Senator Edward Kennedy

His speech at the Democratic National Convention this past August



Rest in peace

A Slacker's Aphorisms Part 2: The Mark Twain edition

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

"There is nothing lower than the human race except the French."

"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."

"Love your enemy, it'll scare the hell out of him."

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."

"I've never killed a man, but I've read many an obituary with a great deal of satisfaction. (Also attributed to Clarence Darrow.)"

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

"It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand"
-Mark Twain

Other Aphorisms.....

"There is nothing more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
-George Carlin

Nirvana: Who the fuck knows.....

A jam that Nirvana did in a 1992 concert in either Sao Paulo or Rio De Janeiro.

Crossfade: Colors

I'm having a not so nostalgic moment. Enjoy