Paul2eD: How did I wind up with Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill on my iPod & her Walking the Witch on my laptop; both playing at the same time? WTF?

BobDobbs_: @Paul2eD My friend made this video: The Black and White Stripes 2 0 http://bit.ly/4Avvbz

R_A_W: Greg Archer: ‘The Vampire’s Assistant’ and 10 other reasons why we really dig vampires in 2009 http://bit.ly/G3nsq

Paul2eD: @BobDobbs_ @R_A_W  The two of you aren’t helping.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: @R_A_W What is the Purpose of Life? To be the eyes and ears of the Creator of the Universe, you fool.”

LaoTzu: Something cloudy and unclear / Before existence and non-existence, / Before heaven and earth / I do not know its name / So I call it TAO

BobDobbs: Hello Kitty “Anatomy” series http://bit.ly/HorMK

DrLeary: @Paul2eD Be cool. Don’t Panic. Chaos is good. Chaos creates infinite possibilities.

Bill Maher: Repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Because It Will Make Rush Limbaugh “Explode” (VIDEO) http://bit.ly/w3moO

Henry Miller: I am a man who pisses largely and frequently. This, they say, is a sign of great mental activity.

Steve Antczak: Moses parted the Red Sea, Oppenheimer split the atom, but “Bob” cut the crap.

Joshua Abraham Norton (c. 1819 – January 8, 1880), the self-proclaimed His Imperial Majesty Emperor Norton I, proclaimed himself “Emperor of these United States” and subsequently “Protector of Mexico” in 1959.

Although he had no political power, and his influence extended only so far as he was humored by those around him, he was treated deferentially in San Francisco, and currency issued in his name was honored in the establishments he frequented.

During the 1860s and 1870s, there were a number of anti-Chinese demonstrations in the poorer districts of San Francisco. Ugly riots, some resulting in fatalities, broke out on several occasions. During one such incident, Norton allegedly positioned himself between the rioters and their Chinese targets, and with a bowed head started reciting the Lord’s Prayer repeatedly until the rioters dispersed without incident.

“When the Master governs, the people
are hardly aware that he exists.” -Lao Tsu

One popular story suggested that he was the son of Emperor Louis Napoleon and that his claim of coming from South Africa was a ruse to prevent persecution. Another popular story suggested that Norton was planning to marry Queen Victoria. While this claim is unsupported, Norton did write to the Queen on several occasions and he is reported to have met Emperor Pedro II of Brazil.

“You must take the bull by the tail and look the facts in the face.” – W.C. Fields

Though he was considered insane, or at least highly eccentric, the citizens of San Francisco celebrated his regal presence and his proclamations. On January 8, 1880, Norton collapsed at a street corner, and died before he could be given medical treatment. The following day, nearly 30,000 people packed the streets of San Francisco to pay homage to Norton.

“Everybody understands Mickey Mouse. Few understand Herman Hesse. Hardly anybody understands Einstein. And nobody understands Emperor Norton.” – Malaclypse the Younger

Discordian Society  

A Bridge between Pisces and Aquarius

Text by Robert Anton Wilson & Wikipedia

My job is so fucking unbelievable. I’ll try to sum it up by first telling you about the folks I work with:

First, there is this supermodel wanna-be chick. Yeah, okay, she is pretty hot, but damn is she completely useless. The girl is constantly fixing her hair or putting on makeup. She is extremely self-centered and has never once considered the needs or wants of anyone but herself. She is as dumb as a box of rocks, and I still find it surprising that she has enough brain power to continue to breathe.

The next chick is completely the opposite. She might even be one of the smartest people on the planet. Her career opportunities are endless, and yet she is here with us. She is a zero on a scale of 1 to 10. I’m not sure she even showers, much less shaves her “womanly” parts. I think she might be a lesbian, because every time we drive by the hardware store, she moans like a cat in heat.

But the jewel of the crowd has got to be the fucking stoner. And this guy is more than just your average pothead. In fact, he is baked before he comes to work, during work, and I’m sure after work. He probably hasn’t been sober anytime in the last ten years, and he’s only 22. He dresses like a beatnik throwback from the 1960’s, and to make things worse, he brings his big fucking dog to work. Every fucking day I have to look at this huge Great Dane walk around half-stoned from the second-hand smoke. Hell, sometimes I even think it’s trying to talk with its constant bellowing. Also, both of them are constantly hungry, requiring multiple stops to McDonalds and Burger King, every single fucking day.

Anyway, I drive these fucktards around in my van and we solve mysteries and shit. – prehack from reddit

Ultimately,
What the bailout does
Is help those who are concerned
About the health care reform
That is needed
To help shore up our economy,
Helping the–
It’s got to be all about job creation, too.

Shoring up our economy
And putting it back on the right track.
So health care reform
And reducing taxes
And reining in spending
Has got to accompany tax reductions
And tax relief for Americans.
And trade.

We’ve got to see trade
As opportunity
Not as a competitive, scary thing.
But one in five jobs
Being created in the trade sector today,
We’ve got to look at that
As more opportunity.
All those things.

By Jon Wilde
Never let it be said that Heather Graham has been demure in her choice of movie roles. She’s played the love interest in Boogie Nights and The Guru, while in From Hell she starred as an Irish prostitute who gets intimate with Johnny Depp. She was Felicity Shagwell in Austin Powers, and in Gray Matters she discovers she’s a lesbian and gets in a clinch with Bridget Moynahan. However, her latest movie is possibly her most demure outing to date.

In The Hangover, the most delightfully demented comedy to hit the screen for years, she stars alongside Bradley Cooper, Mike Tyson, a lion and a chicken. Graham plays a single mother mixed up with a bunch of bachelor partygoers who wake up in Las Vegas with no memory of the night before.

In person, Graham proves to be as arrestingly offkilter as most of her previous roles suggest. Born in Milwaukee and raised near Los Angeles by her schoolteacher mother and a father who was an FBI agent, her entire career might be read as an act of rebellion against her strict Catholic background.

Now 39, but looking ten years younger, she is dating the director Yaniv Raz. Previous boyfriends include Kyle MacLachlan, Adam Ant, James Woods and Heath Ledger. She divides her time between homes in New York and Los Angeles.

When I was a child my parents threatened to send me to a convent.

I’ve often wondered how that would have worked out. I’d have made a terrible nun. I’m a good Catholic girl in the way that Madonna is. In the sense that I’m not that good at all. If the church is having a hard time recruiting nuns, I’d make an ideal poster girl. ‘Become a nun or else end up like her!’

You haven’t lived until you’ve tried tantric sexual healing.

I first got into it when I was filming The Guru in 2002 and I haven’t looked back. What most people know about tantric sex is that Sting does it and it lasts eight hours. But he’s not having sex continually. You can take a bath, massage your partner, listen to music. The idea is that you let the whole thing build very slowly until finally you merge with your partner. It works for me.

My next ambition is to teach myself to levitate.

So far I’ve only succeeded in my dreams. I practice transcendental meditation and there is a phase where you’re meant to lift off the ground. It hasn’t happened yet. I’ll manage it one day. In fact, I’m aiming beyond levitation. I want to be able to fly like a superhero. I won’t be happy until I can fly across oceans and cities, saving people from being murdered.

Read more here.