The Reverend Chuck Mephistopheles Clay

Enthusiasm is common, Endurance is rare Angela Duckworth / ... Graphic posted by Won Kim

my father always said, early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. it was lights out at 8 p.m. in our house... and we were up at dawn to the smell of coffee, frying bacon and scrambled eggs. my father followed this general routine for a lifetime and died young, broke, and, I think, not too wise. taking note, I rejected his advice and it became, for me, late to bed and late to rise. now, I’m not saying that I’ve conquered the world but I’ve avoided numberless early traffic jams, bypassed some common pitfalls and have met some strange, wonderful people one of whom was myselfsomeone my father never knew. ~ Charles Bukowski

Skid Row Wine by Jack Kerouac _____________________________ I coulda done a lot worst than sit... in Skid Row drinkin wine To know that nothing matters after all To know there’s no real difference between the rich and the poor To know that eternity is neither drunk nor sober, to know it young and be a poet Coulda gone into business and ranted And believed that God was concerned Instead I squatted in lonesome alleys And nobody saw me, just my bottle and what they saw of it was empty And I did it in cornfields & graveyards To know that the dead dont make noise To know that the cornstalks talk (among one another with raspy old arms) Sittin in alleys diggin the neons And watching cathedral custodians Wring out their rags neath the church steps Sittin and drinkin wine And in railyards being divine To be a millionaire & yet to prefer Curlin up with a poorboy of tokay In a warehouse door, facing long sunsets On railroad fields of grass To know that the sleepers in the river are dreaming vain dreams, to squat in the night and know it well To be dark solitary eye-nerve watcher of the world’s whirling diamond

If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. ...Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in. ~Bill Hicks

Your moment of zen:

In THE BIG LEBOWSKI, The Dude says man 147 total times in the movie. That averages out to about 1.5 times per minute.

"I have the same religion as that Tree over there." Serj Tankian"I have the same religion as that Tree over there." Serj Tankian

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Don’t wait until you feel comfortable. Don’t wait until you have it all figured out. Don’t wait until you retire. Don’t wait until everything is perfect. Don’t ...wait until you have the approval of others. Our time here is finite. You don’t want to run out of time and be filled with what if’s and serious regrets. This is your one precious life, spend time cultivating a friendship with yourself knowing who you are, what you want, and how you can live your life fully. You are worthy. Your life today is THE something special. See more