It's da (poetry) bomb!

I saw S. A. Griffin do his Poetry Bomb Couch Surfing Across America Tour of Words 2010 presentation tonight. I added my poem "New Heroes of the American Revolution" to his bomb.

Notice of creative sale

I had a photograph licensed for use on the website of a Canadian law firm. I took it in Central Park in NYC in 2003.

Thought

Madness doesn't protect against consequence.

Food

Thai yellow sour curry with chicken.

Food

Slow cooker beef fajitas.

Snake #2

And a few hours after taking the pictures below, I saw a rattlesnake, but I didn't have my camera with me.

Today's critter

Red racer snake enjoying the sun.

To sit still (Miller)

When things are going to rack and ruin, the most purposeful act may be to sit still.

Henry Miller

Significant correlation (Jacoby)

Regardless of how fundamentalists fine-tune their beliefs, there is unquestionably a powerful correlation between religious fundamentalism and lack of education. Approximately 45 percent of those who have no education beyond high school believe in the literal truth of the Bible, while only 29 percent with some college—and just 19 percent of college graduates—share that old-time faith. Secularism, skepticism, and acceptance of mainstream science all rise with education; two thirds of college graduates, but only about one third of high school graduates, believe that living beings have evolved over time—with or without the guiding hand of a creator.

Susan Jacoby, The Age of American Unreason

Thought

When people go mad, go elsewhere.

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Thought

Which requires a stronger will and a finer character, tolerance or condemnation?

Gila monster

Just saw this little guy outside:

Thought

Capitalism is merely utilitarianism + marketing.

Bird on a wire

Food

Chicken with balsamic-honey-butter sauce,

chipotle-cumin beans with molasses, and jazar bi zeit.

Idleness (Stevenson)

Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to state its position as industry itself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Awaken (Nin)

You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.

Anaïs Nin

(Reposted from Jonathan Carroll's blog.)