Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape as anchors in tattoos.

I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today, of which maybe 25 are important. My job is to make some sense of it.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about.

Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?

‎Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?

Scenery is here. Wish you were beautiful.