“Lets build a happy little cloud. Lets build some happy little trees.”

 Become a certified Bob Ross painting instructor here.

"the body of a 75 year old"

Leading up to his death at age 50, Errol Flynn [1909-1959] drank 2 litres of vodka daily.

Walmart heiress changes the local scene

 

“do as I say, not as I do”

"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything. ”

- Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961]

climbing playlist

 Alex Honnold's selection here.

music in Ancient Rome

 

Homo homini lupus

"Man is a wolf to man."

not opting for plastic surgery

"I'd rather look like a young old lady, than an old young lady."

- Mary-Louise Parker [born 1964]

bouncing molecules

 

enervating

 

... "Corporate Accounts Payable, Nina Speaking. JUST A Moment!""Corporate Accounts Payable, Nina Speaking. JUST A Moment!""Corporate Accounts Payable, Nina Speaking. JUST A Moment!""Corporate Accounts Payable, Nina Speaking. JUST A Moment!""Corporate Accounts Payable, Nina Speaking. JUST A Moment!""Corporate Accounts Payable, Nina Speaking. JUST A Moment!""Corporate Accounts Payable, Nina Speaking. JUST A Moment!"...

Wall Street

Carl Fox

Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

"Thoughts for the Times on War and Death"

 

Sigmund Freud [1856-1939] observes Germany's fall from the apex of civilization to brutality here.

intergenerational

 

UK Public House

practice

"In order not to think, you must think a lot."
- Chris Bosh [born 1984]

timorous

"Saigon. Shit. I'm still only in Saigon. Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle. When I was home after my first tour, it was worse. I'd wake up and there'd be nothing. I hardly said a word to my wife, until I said "yes" to a divorce. When I was here, I wanted to be there; when I was there, all I could think of was getting back into the jungle. I'm here a week now, waiting for a mission, getting softer. Every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker, and every minute Charlie squats in the bush, he gets stronger. Each time I looked around the walls moved in a little tighter."
—Willard in Apocalypse Now [1979]

heavy

 

[Geary is demanding a large bribe for a gaming license]

Senator Pat Geary: I want your answer and the money by noon tomorrow. And one more thing. Don't you contact me again, ever. From now on, you deal with Turnbull.

Michael Corleone: Senator? You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.

The Godfather, Part II [1974]

who do you think you are?

 

Inveigle

 

1Persuade (someone) to do something by means of deception or flattery.

extremes

 

"Can't feel in the mid-zone"

on dissatisfaction, unhappiness

"The best art in the universe is created through intense suffering."
- David Choe [born 1976]

bitter sweet curse

"Nothing feels better than going home. Nothing feels better than leaving home." 
- Josh Homme [born 1973]

on marketing

Multi Pochette Accessories, $3800

“What made Louis Vuitton famous was the quality. We don’t do marketing; we just create products which are exceptional in their design and craftsmanship.” 

― Bernard Arnault, Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy [LVMH] [born 1949]

serenity now

FRANK: I got no leg room back here. Move your seat forward.
ESTELLE: That's as far as it goes.

FRANK: There's a mechanism. You just pull it, and throw your body weight.
ESTELLE: I pulled it. It doesn't go.
FRANK: If you want the leg room, say you want the leg room! Don't blame the mechanism!
GEORGE: All right, Dad, we're five blocks from the house. Sit sideways.
FRANK: Like an animal. Because of her, I have to sit here like an animal! Serenity Now! Serenity Now!
GEORGE: What is that?
FRANK: Doctor gave me a relaxation cassette. When my blood pressure gets too high, the man on the tape tells me to say, 'Serenity Now!'
GEORGE: Are you supposed to yell it?
FRANK: The man on the tape wasn't specific.

consoling

"Had I never really fucked up, my memoir would not have been half as interesting."
- Anthony Bourdain [1956-2018]

Trauma Stages

 

Source here.

unconscious forces

“The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.”
- Sigmund Freud [1856-1939]

when the snow melts

 

Lots of Trouble Usually Serious

Lotus

how russia wil die

 

just business

"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that."

- Abraham Lincoln [1809-1865] in a letter to Horace Greeley [1811-1872], August 22, 1862.

on leadership

The Endurance was trapped in sea-ice for months before sinking to the deep in 1915


NOVA: How about the carpenter Henry McNeish? How did your grandfather handle his attempted mutiny?

Shackleton: Well, that was the only serious instance of discord on the expedition. My grandfather came upon Worsley confronting McNeish. McNeish was refusing to obey orders, and Worsley was not handling it as well as he should have. McNeish thought that he could make some decisions better himself, and he said that since the ship was sunk, their obligations were over. They did not have to obey orders.

My grandfather quietly went away and got a copy of the ship's articles and read them to the ship's company. He said that though the ship had sunk, their pay would continue until they reached port, and therefore they were all still under his command. That ended the confrontation.

can't forget but forgive

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
- Maya Angelou [1928-2014]

Imperator

Roman Republic commander. 

Image source here.

where Seth Meyers studied comedy in the Netherlands

 

Seth Meyers [born 1973] studied comedy here. His Amsterdam picks here.

youngest person to become president of the United States

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

– Theodore Roosevelt [1858-1919]

but where do you put the snow blower?

 

But a two minute drive plants you in tent city, where scores of homeless find themselves mainly after inability to keep up with escalating rent, cover unexpected but not always exorbitant medical bills even when earning a "living wage" including due to unemployment and/or mental illness. 

That's a fun twist

... on "Thank you."

When gratitude is warranted but not proffered.

joyful death

 

"... the mind you leave this world with conditions the next one. Those filled with fear face a different world than those minds that have acceptance. It is a good idea when one is one one’s deathbed, to recount all the nice and kind things one has done through life."


Hat Tip: JV

reboot

“Scribble out the world since it was not to your liking and make up a new one, something better.”

– Alice McDermott [born 1953]

"not the coolest beer in the fridge"

 

Christopher Walken [born 1943] on his grandson.

Hat Tip: DS

Bog Corpse

Age at death: about 30–40

Dated to: about 280 BCE—early Iron Age

In Denmark, dead bodies were thrown into bogs as that's where the spirits lived.

Source here.

Inflation

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the publick, or in some contrivance to raise prices."
- Adam Smith [1723-1790]