Adventures with Blue Car

I never have commented on anything before. Not on ...

2012-04-04T11:07:11.651-07:00

I never have commented on anything before. Not on a blog, I mean-- I've commented on things before. It's asking me below this comment box to "Choose an identity." No wonder people get scared off. Anyway, I'm glad you like this band and all the little bouncy white kids.

Kurt Hahn, founder of Outward Bound, said "Yo...

2011-10-24T18:32:25.883-07:00

Kurt Hahn, founder of Outward Bound, said "Your disability is your opportunity." Thanks for reminder on silence. A very clear kind of silence is kept at various monasteries I've frequented over the years. The Episcopal Benedictine one in West Park, NY, has excellent silence.

Glad you're okay. Your childhood prank reminds...

2011-09-12T03:57:30.559-07:00

Glad you're okay. Your childhood prank reminds me of The Man Who Saw Everything Twice in Heller's "Catch-22." Yossarian imitates his malady, until the Man Who Saw Everything Twice dies, and Yossarian announces that he sees everything once.

THIS is a proper set of New Year's resolutions...

2011-06-03T22:31:53.633-07:00

THIS is a proper set of New Year's resolutions. Why do people even try to write new ones when they've got this?

I just found your blog again - I thought you'd...

2011-03-13T13:59:22.111-07:00

I just found your blog again - I thought you'd stopped posting as it wasn't in my feed anymore. Then I searched and found you. Thank goodness!

Great find! I think my favorite is “The signore…wi...

2011-02-23T09:50:21.639-08:00

Great find! I think my favorite is “The signore…wishes her to begin at the beginning.”

I really like the situational range of displayed in the quotes. There's one for just about every condition.

I too loved that article! I read it last year, and...

2010-11-02T11:13:05.336-07:00

I too loved that article! I read it last year, and think it's only gotten more relevant and applicable.

How long are you gonna be in Boston for?

I save more than you think:)

2010-03-10T11:45:51.906-08:00

I save more than you think:)

2010-03-05T09:44:33.633-08:00

I save more than you think:)

i too have just recently moved. a lot actually. in...

2010-02-28T00:05:07.661-08:00

i too have just recently moved. a lot actually. in the past 12 months i moved cross country three times. each time with all my "stuff." tho there's not very much of it. my mother is a tireless packrat, and we're always butting heads because i can't stand stuff. it feels like a giant weight, dragging me down, demanding something of me, to be looked after; a commitment. but this last move, i actually kept something. i shipped my car. it is completely impractical here, but i bought it in LA and in the end i loved it too much to let it go. it had come to feel like a part of me. an extension of me. it was a new feeling. to want to keep this thing.

6 billion people, yes...but only ONE Ernest Borgni...

2010-01-29T05:41:07.698-08:00

6 billion people, yes...but only ONE Ernest Borgnine!!

You have reminded me of how much I miss walking. T...

2010-01-20T00:36:11.326-08:00

You have reminded me of how much I miss walking. Tho in this city I have found a way to love driving. Nice to read your writing again after so long.

people who like " the heart is a lonely hunte...

2010-01-16T21:59:51.603-08:00

people who like " the heart is a lonely hunter " cannot be bad !

Happy New Year !!! 2010 New Year's Fireworks ...

2010-01-05T20:32:38.309-08:00

Happy New Year !!!

2010 New Year's Fireworks show

http://fireworks2010.blogspot.com/

These are some of the most amazing photos I've...

2009-08-20T13:45:13.281-07:00

These are some of the most amazing photos I've seen. Thanks for the link!

Sounds amazing:)

2009-07-22T12:43:24.817-07:00

Sounds amazing:)

It's funny. I read this and the other new posts ye...

2009-01-11T19:50:00.000-08:00

It's funny. I read this and the other new posts yesterday (you've been pretty productive in 2009, apparently!) and then I happened to wander into church this morning. (Yes, I do realize this is strange behavior for a 28 year-old philosophy student who grew up in JP.) Point being, something about your post echoes one of Paul's letters to the Corinthians. The letter's about unity in diversity and about how everyone's different but we all have something to contribute to the same great end -- which isn't really your point here -- but his metaphor is also with body parts. I'm not sure I can quite buy it, because sometimes it seems to me that some folks get all the talents and others get very few, but I suppose it's a nice idea. But maybe, in your context, it means there are lots of ways of preserving and accessing the past other than your lost hard drive. Maybe you'll be like a blind person who gets really good at hearing, or something like that. Anyway, strange to come across these two pieces of writing (yours and Paul's) in the same 24 hours:

"Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant... There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men.

"Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he determines.

"The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.

"Now the body is not made up of one part but of many. If the foot should say, 'Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,' it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. And if the ear should say, 'Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,' it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
The eye cannot say to the hand, 'I don't need you!' And the head cannot say to the feet, 'I don't need you!' On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor... But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

"Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, also those having gifts of healing, those able to help others, those with gifts of administration, and those speaking in different kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret?..."

Hope you're enjoying home.

Wow, Kip. This is the most amazing post. I should ...

2009-01-06T08:32:00.000-08:00

Wow, Kip. This is the most amazing post. I should be more articulate about rather than just gushing about it, but it's all I got. Gush. Amazing.

Welcome back. Don't let the bastards get you down...

2009-01-04T20:44:00.000-08:00

Welcome back. Don't let the bastards get you down.

This is a terrific post. I, too, have been thinki...

2009-01-02T11:13:00.000-08:00

This is a terrific post. I, too, have been thinking about whether to blog or not to blog. Glad you've decided to keep it going.

You are quick on the draw. Andrew will be much pl...

2008-12-31T12:11:00.000-08:00

You are quick on the draw. Andrew will be much pleased. A Winter poem for you on New Years Eve...its nice to imagine a winter somewhere...it certainly isn't here (in L.A.) today.

The Snow Man

One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;

And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter

Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,

Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place

For the listener, who listens in the snow,
and, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

- Wallace Stevens (1921)

Good luck with your elections and may the national...

2008-11-04T15:16:00.000-08:00

Good luck with your elections and may the national results reflect your own preferences.
Meanwhile I'm tagging you, if you haven't been so tagged already.

I do my best thinking when I should be doing somet...

2008-10-25T11:14:00.000-07:00

I do my best thinking when I should be doing something else.

This is a great picture, but you didn't mention the two coolest inanimate objects in it! I mean an SNL sweatsuit is sweet no question but it's a distant third to a 1986 Celtics Championship foam finger AND Castle Greyskull. That thing had a working trap door that dropped unsuspecting villains (like the Stinkor character, whose plastic action figure was literally skunk-scented) into a dungeon. Many ingredients for an excellent childhood right there.

Gonna try to make it to the show sometime this week.

Rob

I wish it were still socially acceptable to go abo...

2008-10-21T09:17:00.000-07:00

I wish it were still socially acceptable to go about your day in sweatpants.

Hello, this is my first time here and I'm looking ...

2008-10-19T13:24:00.000-07:00

Hello, this is my first time here and I'm looking forward to returning. I hope you will find the time for a counter visit so we can stay connected. I find your blog very interesting and would like to follow it. I also see we share some interests i.e. I see one of your favourite movies is babel, did you like the story, what do you think about it in the way GLOBALISATION is linked to the tower of babel?