Evolution

The Prodigal

2008-07-16T10:33:35Z

I'd wanted to leave home, but have it stay in place, waiting for me, unchanged, so I could step back into it at will. - Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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Looking Glass

2008-07-05T18:12:27Z

Next it was time for the graduates to receive their diplomas. Up they trooped, solemn and radiant, in many sizes, all beautiful as only the young can be beautiful. Even the ugly ones were beautiful, even the surly ones, the fat ones, even the spo...

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Music QotW: Favourite Michael Jackson Song

2008-05-24T06:48:18Z

Share your favourite Michael Jackson song. He may have gone berserk lately, but his music is timeless. Can never get bored of MJ.

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What I See In Others

2008-04-30T16:57:32Z

I hold as a view that what I see in others is a reflection of me. I only know about myself. When I hear people judging very harshly, I feel I'm hearing as much about their hang-ups as I am about the issue. I'm hearing about the places in themselve...

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Truth and Knowledge

2008-04-07T17:20:40Z

In Buddhism, knowledge is regarded as an obstacle to our understanding, like a block of ice that obstructs water from flowing. It is said that if we take one thing to be truth and to cling to it, even if truth itself comes in person and knocks at...

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Girls With Big Tentacles

2008-04-06T08:44:17Z

Marine biologists studying wild octopuses have found a kinky and violent society of jealous murders, gender subterfuge and once-in-a-lifetime sex. Full story here.

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I Hope You Don't Mind

2008-04-03T11:45:22Z

that everything I say to you, everything I ask, is trite, fragile, irrelevant -- merely an excuse for words to pass between us.

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On Luxuriating

2008-03-31T16:13:51Z

The thing with what I call 'luxury time' is that you can't pre-plan or manage it. You just have to learn to recognise and enjoy it. It could be taking the phone call from your mother and stopping yourself from saying, "Let me call you back in five...

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The Pianist

2008-03-29T17:45:45Z

What a stunning film. Adrien Brody's performance can't be lauded enough, neither can Polanski's direction. Brody plays Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish pianist whose true story of survival through WWII is pretty darn incredible. The screenplay is cle...

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Einverstanden

2008-03-24T08:49:07Z

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve...

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