Chaos Theory: I like this sentiment

What's Going On

Camp NaNoWriMo
NaNoWriMo
2010 Ravelympics!
My Swurl page
Aggregates a bunch of journal-y blog entries together. Convenient!
Ravelympics
Knitting and crochet and all kinds of projects, competing to be finished within two weeks and change!
National Novel Writing Month
Saturn Return Can Bite Me
My beta test blog over on Vox, astrology-related.
Knitting Olympics 2006
I was a gold medalist!
The Spanglemonkey Awards 2005
Best Internet Variety Show (and Good Luck Getting Anything Done, Ever) in 2005!
My Bloglines blogroll.
Fine. There you go.
I am the Minister of Chaos
Like you were surprised to hear it. Heh.
My Blog Threat Level Is:
The Feminist Valentine Blog Awards.
The Spanglemonkey Awards

* Spanglemonkey's Best Site From Which to Steal Links Shamelessly in 2004
* Best Blog Title Based on Ian Malcolm's Dialogue in Jurassic Park, in 2004
BugMeNot
Be a rebel. Screw registering. Read stuff.
Craft Enabled, Domestically Disabled
My new craft blog, to give the "Craft Projects" photo album a bit of purpose.
Speed-Reading Book Nerd Reviews
Yes, I started a booklog, mostly for summer reading. Eventually, I'll even add reviews to it.
My NaNoWriMo Novel Site

If you're interested in that sort of thing.

Quotes

the painkiller:
"I will not be tagged, pinned, circled, liked, tweeted, retweeted or numbered."
Steve Jobs:
"Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later. Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
Apple:
"Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
Miss Manners:
"Please do not -- repeat, not -- make a hostile approach to knitters. Have you not noticed that they are armed with long, pointy sticks?"
Stephen Tobolowsky:
"And of course, nothing is what I figured on in my life. That seems to be a recurring theme."
James Bulls:
"When you find yourself walking a true path, you will know it because you will want to walk it no matter the burning Sun, freezing sleet, torrential rain, and treacherous ground. The risks become no less and the journey as always exhausts you, but your desire to brave the challenges never diminishes."
SOMEBODY???
"May the bridges I burn light the way"
Amy Argetsinger:
"Twitter is a disease, plain and simple. It makes people insane. A decade from now I expect the CDC and FDA will be issuing warnings."
Cary Tennis:
"You don't have to "move on" either. Not until you're ready. People say, Oh, you should be grateful. They say, Oh, it's time for you to move on. I'm like, What are you, a cop with a nightstick? I'll move on when I'm done playing the blues on my harmonica, thank you very much."
Mark Morford:
"It is 2011 and here is what we know: Reality is fluid, fact is malleable, cause and effect completely uncertain. We know what we don't know, but we also know the opposite."
Charlie Jane Anders:
"Just remember, if you flinch from your destiny, you'll never achieve your true greatness — you didn't choose to be chosen, but being chosen means you have to choose."
Roger Ebert:
"To put it bluntly, I believe the world is patriarchal because men are bigger and stronger than women, and can beat them up."
Myca:
"Jesus is not the reason for the season, and there's no way I need to act like he is. Christmas is a stolen tradition. There's no reason we can't steal it back."
Lady Gaga:
"I hate the holidays! I'm alone and miserable, you fucking dumb bit of toy!"
Dianna Agron:
"I am trying to live my life with a sharpie marker approach. You can’t erase the strokes you’ve made, but each step is much bolder and more deliberate."
John Mayer:
"It occurred to me that since the invocation of Twitter, nobody who has participated in it has created any lasting art. And yes! Yours truly is included in that roundup as well. Let me make sure that statement is as absolute and irrevocable as possible by buzzing your tower one more time: no artwork created by someone with a healthy grasp of social media thus far has proven to be anything other than disposable."
Vanessa, Something Positive:
"I like 'em crazy. You hear insane rants, I hear a reminder that the sex is interesting. Oooh! Hear that? Tonight's gonna tingle."
Anonymous:
“Your problem is that you want to be an artist. What you need to be is an artisan.”
Sugar:
"Ask better questions, sweet pea. The fuck is your life. Answer it."
Wide Lawns:
"Often very odd things happen to me. Usually they are not my fault and mostly beyond my control."
Anonymous reporter:
“When weird shit happens around here, weird shit really happens around here.”
Anne Johnson:
"Today some stranger sent me an email that said, "You are a nut case." Well, I must admit this never would have occurred to me. Everyone else is a nut case. I'm the sane one. I think."
Carl Mayer:
"Whenever I start to feel like my life isn’t where I want it to be, “Cops” is there to put everything into perspective. Yeah, I haven’t made all the right moves over the last 34 years, but I’m not hiding from the police under a kiddie pool, either."
John Scalzi:
"In retrospect, it’s a little weird to think that my entire future was falling into place as I obliviously tucked into the El Presidente chimichanga platter, but of course, that’s life for you — the most important days of your existence don’t always announce themselves in obvious ways."
Tart and Soul:
"Indeed, love comes whether we have braced ourselves for it or not. But commitment offers a choice, tapping us on the shoulder to say, “sorry to bother you. Is this a good time?”
J.C. Hutchins:
"I was Wanky McWankerton, in love with words I’d yet to write. I did this for nearly two years. If every sperm is sacred, God wasn’t irate with me — he was effing thermonuclear."
Beth Sekishiro:
"You don't need to be conventional to love people. Maybe you've got to give up your whole life - but that's just when you'll find it."
Cormac McCarthy:
"Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way."
From "Andromeda Klein:"
"sometimes the Universe was subtle; other times it hit you over the head like it thought you were stupid."
Dame Margot Fonteyn:
"But somehow or other, fate doesn't always do the things that might be sensible. Fate leads you to do other things. And I'm a great fatalist."
Alan Moore:
"Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
Lani Diane Rich:
"I have a good friend going through a horrendously bad time right now, the kind of lifetime crisis that either kills you or changes you so fundamentally that you will never again be the person you were before. I recently went through something similar, although I don’t think I let it take as much of a chunk out of me as it’s taking out of her, mostly because I’ve had my ass kicked by the Universe before. I know that when you keep trying to make something work, and it doesn’t no matter what you do, then you need to relax and figure out what the Universe is trying to tell you, because the Universe will continue to make your life hell until you do."
Cary Tennis:
"Some people might not approve of your needs. Screw them. You didn't invent your own needs."
Jennifer Finney Boylan:
"The world is full of false hopes, most of them dumber than the hope of being transformed by love."
Hugh Macleod:
“Good ideas come with a heavy burden; which is why so few people execute them. Few people can handle it.“  
Fiona Glennane on meditation:
“I want you to close your eyes and breathe deep. Picture a peaceful mountain stream. Can you do that? Picture yourself drowning the kidnapper in the stream.”
Sarah Haskins:
"We used to just grow old and be spinsters. Now we have a lot of options: We can be spinsters or cougars."
The Doctor:
"All that attitude, all that lip, 'cos all this time... you think you're not worth it. Shouting at the world 'cos no-one's listening. Well... why should they?"
Winter, the guy trying to visit all the Starbucks before they close:
"Pointless though it might it be, a goal is a goal."
Carolyn Hax:
Carlsbad, N.M.: How do I figure out what to be when I grow up? Carolyn Hax: I dunno, but it's easier if you grow up first, then figure it out. Otherwise you'll just change your mind when you get there.

August 02, 2009

I like this sentiment

"Money makes the world go 'round. Maybe that's why we resent money so much. It controls our fates. It kicks us when we're down. It makes us feel helpless, especially when we're depressed and need a two-hour back massage, a custard-filled doughnut and a brand-new Lexus LX 570 to bring us happiness and fulfillment. (Salon)

That's why we Americans worship self-made billionaires. These are people who took revenge on money, bent it to their will, and now they disrespect it right to its face on a daily basis by wasting huge amounts of it on things they don't really need.

No matter how much we pay lip service to the common good, we all secretly want to be like these billionaires and make money our own personal sniveling handservant. But until we come up with some brilliant product or book or scheme that we can promote on Facebook and tweet about and become instant trillionaires like everyone else who truly understands social networking tools, we'll continue to be oppressed by that merciless dominatrix, the mighty dollar.

It's so no-fair! Day after day, we sally forth to do money's bidding and win her favor! Night after night we wonder if she'll ever let us live in peace! And still, we can't help daydreaming of being free to roam the world unafraid of credit cards and retirement goals, free to eat huge plates of overpriced food and have our idle bodies massaged by a team of highly trained minions, free to gloat and brag and swagger through this godforsaken world like only a disgustingly wealthy human can!"

Posted on August 02, 2009 at 09:48 AM in Reality TV | Permalink

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