Tomas Roncero on Spain’s success in Euro 2008
Take that historic inferiority complex! Take that Spanish victimism! Take that Buffon and Cassano! Take that 22 June curse! Take that 88-year jinx against the unbeatable Italians! Take that pessimists! Take that disbelievers! Take that Tassotti! Take that Pagliuca! And long live King Juan Carlos of Spain!
women are scary, kafka also said
Women are snares which lie in wait for men on all sides, in order to drag them into the merely finite.
the pleasure is mine
Don’t you get pleasure out of exaggerating painful things as much as possible?
short short story
he couldn’t understand why.
he humbled himself and He was with him. and together they took 2 fish and five loaves and they fed five thousand.
like jesus.
but nobody believed him. they thought it was a trick.
was it because he was a magician, he thought? or was his gospel too effortless or was it because of his popstar wife?
He has heard Him so many times but today, He stayed silent.
two guesses better than one
this is a fascinating article.
the book “the wisdom of crowds” has stated the idea that a group of people is often more accurate than an expert. for example, “the TV studio audience of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire guesses correctly 91 percent of the time, compared to “experts” who guess only 65 percent correctly”.
now, research has found “that two guesses made by the same person at different times are also better than one”.
hmm, let’s put it to the test. i used to think women were wonderful. now i think they are scary. so according to the new theory, the average of these 2 views is more accurate which means that a woman is one-half wonderful and the other half scary.
or maybe it means 50% women are wonderful, the other half are scary.
so let’s say my new view is that 50% of women are scary. my other view of women is that 50% of them are potentially lesbians (as claimed by lesbian lit.).
i don’t exactly know what the average of these views mean but i think it indicates that there are a lot of scary lesbians around.
simple, total, black-and-white answers
People want certainty. They want meaning. Some want purity. Unfortunately, the world is messy. Faced with the jumble of everyday life, some people jump off the reality ship, and join groups that promise answers. Simple, total, black-and-white answers. Some of these people are naive. Others are lost or needy. Some are seeking permission to unleash the violent impulses they feel. And remember: Nobody sets out to join a cult. They join that really exciting church.
a short break
i have decided to take a short break from blogging. if you like, we can exchange letters via emails.
write to me: isaiah at ihadapooreducation dot com
my relationship with them is a conceptual one
Haruki Murakami in the New Yorker:
I don’t see my readers’ faces, so in a sense my relationship with them is a conceptual one, but I’ve consistently considered it the most important thing in my life.
two cotton balls
Once (Tiger) Woods tried out four drivers that Nike was experimenting with and told the lab guys that he preferred the heavier one. The researchers thought the clubs were the same weight, but they measured and Woods was right. The club he’d selected was heavier by the equivalent of two cotton balls.
our birthright is to fail and to fail often
The object isn’t to be perfect. The goal isn’t to hold back until you’ve created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.
i wish i didn’t meet xena today
on the bus today, i was listening to madonna singing about keeping her baby when out of nowhere, xena the fucking smelly perfume warrior from HELL, a-bombed the seat next to me.
i had it with my bad luck on public transport. perhaps someone smart like Steven Levitt could point out to me my pattern in choosing seats and teach me how to avoid monsters.
girlcott
(the word girlcott which means the same thing as boycott)… is first recorded in a short newspaper sketch of 1884, describing how the young women of Groton, Massachusetts ‘have resolved to girlcott any young man that smokes or goes out of the theatre between acts’.
JG Ballard
“Just because you’re right, it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be viewed with great suspicion.” The gifts of modern life, the “mod cons” that have brought a kind of freedom to the inhabitants of the western world, “are gifts that come in poisonous wrapping paper. One has to handle them very carefully. But that’s true of most of the valuable things in life.”
at the raffles courtyard
today, a woman was standing in front of a poster at the raffles courtyard and reading it aloud:
squid at the raffles courtyard
squid at the raffles courtyard
squid at the raffles courtyard
she said it once to herself, once to a friend near her and another friend further away.
we don’t celebrate literacy enough here in singapore. and what better place to do it than at the raffles hotel, and with friends and seafood.
strawberry shortcake and care bears to transform and roll out
Strawberry Shortcake, part of a line of scented dolls, now prefers fresh fruit to gumdrops, appears to wear just a dab of lipstick (but no rouge), and spends her time chatting on a cellphone instead of brushing her calico cat, Custard…
American Greetings is dusting off another of its lines, the Care Bears, which will return with a fresh look this fall (less belly fat, longer eyelashes).
Preacher Vol. 5
Preacher Vol. 5: Dixie Fried (Paperback)
by Garth Ennis
165 – … folks don’t like the truth. That’s the point. It’s easier lyin’. Stops us havin’ to face up to trouble when it comes along. To do wrong insteada right.
165 – An’ a guy who’ll tell the truth in this bullshit world, he’s worth his weight in gold.
185 – What’s he going to do, beat us to death with his Bible?
216 – I honestly don’t believe that he’s an evil man. Just careless. And thoughtless. And terribly, terribly weak.
effortless jo and mrs. proverbs 31
one is such a lonely number – Madonna / Patrick Leonard
you may find it hard to believe but every day i try to be a better man.
everytime i look at effortless jo’s awe-inspiring bio, i see the gap between us and i feel ashamed. i have come to the realization that i need God’s undeserved favor as well as a woman who like mrs. effortless jo “epitomises the virtuous woman mentioned in Proverbs 31″.
after all, behind every successful man is a woman.
so i’m announcing officially, my worldwide search for my future mrs. proverbs 31. i’ve even made a pdf poster so you can print many copies and hang in your homes, offices and churches (where sweet saucy spiritual women are everywhere).
now my fellow single Christian brothers, please feel free to use this poster in your quest to be mr. proverbs 31. i know the list of qualities is long and the odds seem insurmountable (yes, the never kicks my ass bit is slightly tricky) but you must not be discouraged.
however, should you feel down, do read effortless jo’s destined to reign. at the very least, you will have a good laugh.
effortless jo and PERV – unfortunate coincidences
some coincidences are unfortunate, none more so than the 2 well-loved words we use here on this is premium writing, no?
first, the affectionate name i have for the pastor joseph prince is “effortless jo”, based on his hugely successful, “definitive” book on grace, destined to reign.
i am aghast to find today, that “effortless joe” in the gaming world refers to “the kind of player who will go through games with cheats to make things easier.”
should there be any misunderstanding, i like to point out that there is a difference between “jo” and “joe”. they are not the same thing.
also, the PERV Bible, introduced yesterday, inspired by effortless jo’s lyrics-changing ways, is another unfortunate coincidence. while it sounds so perky and exotic, it’s also a slang for pervert. the double blow here is that “traditionally the word (pervert) was mainly associated with persons of false religious beliefs”.
oh dear.
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