Ablogalypse Now

when it's love

"When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet, this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity – in freedom. The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now. For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits – islands surrounded and interrupted by the sea, continuously visited and abandoned by the tides. One must accept the serenity of the winged life, of ebb and flow, of intermittency."

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Questions, by Anonymous

(1) What is your definition of love? 

(2) How do you know if you're in "love"? 

(3) How do you know if they're the "one"?

Answers, by Dan Savage
 

 

(1) Love is making out with someone after you've blown a load on his/her face. 

(2) You know you're in love when you're eating breakfast in a restaurant together the morning after he/she blew a load on your face and you suddenly realize that you didn't wash your face when you got out of bed that morning and you don't care.

(3) You know he/she is the one when he/she realizes that you've just realized that you're eating breakfast in a restaurant the morning after he/she blew a load on your face and you didn't wash your face when you got out of bed that morning and he/she smiles, leans over the table, and gives you a kiss.

What We Still Don't Know About Libby

How exactly does one earn a nickname like "Scooter?"

Viggo Laments Our Decaying Empire

"I think most Americans will look back on this period since 1980 as a morally bleak, intellectually fraudulent period of history. There will be a certain amount of shame, a feeling we were part of something wrong. People standing outside of this country can see this because it’s very obvious. It’s like looking at a spoiled brat, a kid who’s totally out of control, but because the parents are really rich and because they own the school, you have to put up with it. America is an empire in decay. But we don’t have to lash out and do damage on the way down. We can reverse some of the damage we’ve done. It’s possible."

- Viggo Mortensen, in the Nov. 5, 2005 issue of The Progressive

Religion: A Gateway Psychosis

"Religion is a gateway psychosis."

- Dave Foley, on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, March 4, 2005

Random Clive Barker Quote of the Day

"To every hour, its mystery.

     At dawn, the riddles of life and light. At noon, the conundrums of solidity. At three, in the hum and heat of the day, a phantom moon, already high. At dusk, memory. And at midnight? Oh, then the enigma of time itself; of a day that will never come again passing into history while we sleep."

- Clive Barker, "Sacrament"

Give Me Hedonism, or Give Me Death

With the commingled aromas of alcohol, sour sweat, stale piss and fresh vomit wafting through the air, what I wouldn't give to be here right about now.

God's Clock

"Religion is to God what the clock is to time."

-James Carroll, "God's Clock" , Dec. 14, 2004

This sentence is quite possibly the most brilliantly succinct perspective on religion I've ever seen.

some cool artwork.....

A random check of the "recently updated" list led me to this moblog that features photographs of some pretty interesting urban/off the wall artwork.

Gonzo Quote of the Week

"This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it - that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."

- Hunter S. Thompson, from Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail November 1972

Images

It strikes me as more than a little bit weird that, in a fairly short period of time, Google Images has become the number one referrer to this site.

What the fuck, over?