December 2009
21 posts
“Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom”
– Herman Hesse - Siddhartha
“Some people never go crazy. What terrible lives they must lead”
– Charles Bukowski - Betting on the Muse
“Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never forget about it”
– Jacques Prevert
“What excites me is to destroy the reader’s fundamental assumptions”
– Will Self
“Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the...”
– Stephen King
“The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions”
– Susan Sontag
“Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was...”
– Toni Morrison
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you”
– Maya Angelou
Nintendo Girl - Nintendo Woman
In the past part of becoming a serious adult was to stop playing games. There is a rise in the current generation to preserve that inner-child and embrace it and have gaming consoles that are suitable for all ages, acknowledging that that sense of play and imagination and success in mastery and discovery is a drive that is a part of ourselves throughout our lifetime.
I bought my first Nintendo...
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Sucker for a French Accent
I’m a sucker for a French accent. There is something about a guy with a French accent that I find incredibly alluring. If they calmly told me the greatest obscenities in a confident, collected, slightly flirtatious way, I would not understand but believe that every word they have uttered is a thing of beauty, I would find myself instantly smitten.
Do you think that we romanticize French...
"Psychotic"
When I hear someone use the word “psychotic” in conversation and on television as a source of ridicule, I find it distasteful, and ignorant. These people have little understanding of what this word actually means. I doubt that if they had experienced psychosis themselves that they would find it at all amusing. Another illness spoken of in a derogatory way would be considered cruel and...
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Katy Perry vs Britney - To Sing and to Lip Synch
I went to see Katy Perry earlier this year at the Enmore in Newtown - and although it was a small location and I had to stand up, the performance was well worth it. Katy sang, danced, interacted well with the audience and showed a vocal ability that surpassed what you saw in her music videos - and she played the acoustic guitar to boot adding some new songs and some covers of old in addition to...
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Dis-Ability
Do you treat someone with a physical disability differently?
Be honest.
A lot of people fall into many categories when seeing someone with a physical disability in a public place:
The category of trying too hard around them to prove to yourself and/or to others that you don’t treat them any differently.
The category of assuming that someone with a physical disability instantly means they are...
Intro
I’d like to discuss my thoughts on social issues, pop culture, depictions of mental health and physical disability in the media, friendship, relationships, men and women. I’m interested in comments and blogs that will come out of it and I’m looking forward to all that I’ll discover along the way
“The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship”
– Casablanca
