bucolic

My first grade photo. I believe this was in 1976.

“If the only thing keeping a person decent is the expectation of divine reward then, brother, that person is a piece of shit."

- Rust Cohle

Broadbent:...I find the world quite good enough for me--rather a jolly place, in fact.

Keegan (looking at him with quiet wonder): You are satisfied?

Broadbent: As a reasonable man, yes. I see no evils in the world--except of course, natural evils--that cannot be remedied by freedom, self-government and English institutions. I think so, not because I am an Englishman, but as a matter...
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I thank the lord for the night time...forget the day.

Dear world:

It's 4:36 AM and I'm wide awake. Time for mayhem in the A.M.

I hate the telephone. Honestly I do. It rings and rings and I want to rip its line out of the wall and hurl the rotten thing across the room. Sometimes I'd rather just smash it with a hammer, scattering the pieces of its plastic carcass across the floor. It's a damnable thing. An abomination.

Sorcerer (1977) directed by William Friedkin. Blu-ray is being released this week. Can't wait to get my pre-order in the mail.

Écrasez L'infâme - "Crush the Infamous," a slogan made familiar by the author Voltaire (1694-1778). L'infâme referred to any form of religion that persecuted non adherents or promoted fanaticism.

Chief Luther Standing Bear, in his 1933 autobiography, From the Land of the Spotted Eagle, wrote:

"True, the white man brought great change. But the varied fruits of his civilization, though highly colored and inviting, are sickening and deadening. And if it be the part of civilization to maim, rob, and thwart, then what is progress?

I am going to venture that the man who...
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