Small Talk (15)

aphorisms and short reflections

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is old york the city that never wakes up?




God questions all my prayers




i do not care what your sexual disorientation is





prostitutes are professional lovers, journalists are professional haters. the first transmit sexual disease, the second disease sexual transmission. learn the difference.





i wouldn't mind cities if they were as Woody Allen sees them. but they really aren't.





life's a joke. you don't get it. it gets you.





the joke crosses the line and gets punched.





i cannot pay attention when i have no spare constancy.






in Genesis, darkness comes before the light. God is a gentleman. ladies first.




not well bred
not well read
not made to be led
never made my bed
even dead
my blood will be red






it's easy to condemn and criticize our ancestors for what in hindsight are clearly mistakes of world ending proportions. so we really have no excuse do it so rarely.





if you agree that learning and creating and improving are some of the best things about existence, then heaven can never be a place of stasis, nor can it be perfect, nor can our knowledge ever be complete. in other words, only boring people go to boring heaven. as they should.




i've met many rocks more lively than the orthodox view of heaven.





my favorite colors are flying and surprised.





everything has meaning. but it's up to us to add the extreming.





i'm an idiot, i love idioms.




etymologically speaking, happiness just happens.





i don't work out. i'm not a thing.





i'm a student of plato's cavemen




we are who we are, and we can only become more or less so, never anything or anyone else




Noah was probably the only man to literally stand on the shoulders of giants. (there isn't enough nephilim humor, i'm trying to rectify that).





traditionalists are not trying to put the genie back in the bottle. they are the genie, nostalgic for the broken bottle. it doesn't hold water.

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