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"Woo! Now our tummies are on fire!"
overheard near the gym at Northern Telecom, Mission Park campus
"The good thing about our generation is you can be gay or straight, with someone your own color or not. Whatever you want."
Brian Rich, 23, San Francisco
"In elementary school, 55 percent of the students believe that elected officials care about young people. In high school, only 17 percent of the students feel that way."
Scholastic Poll of American Youth (1992)
"Did other generations ever laugh so hard together, drink and dance so hard, or do crazier things just for the hell of it?"
Malcom Cowley (1898-1989)
"... we are the children of concrete and steel ..."
Living Colour, "Type" (song)
"This is the tought that makes me get up in the middle of the night. That when I get older, these kinds are gonna take care of me." "Don't hold your breath."
a schoolteacher and a janitor, The Breakfast Club (film)
"You young people are a disgrace to the human race, to plants even. You shouldn't even be seen in the same room as a cactus."
teenager to his buddies, River's Edge (film)
"I suppose keeping it inside would be alright if the solutions were also inside. But usually they are not. I do believe each of us possesses within us what we need to recover, what we need to change, and what we need to become healthier men. But more often than not, we need to go outside ourselves to understand the inside. We need to let others in to help us get to the core of ourselves, that center which holds the answer."
Dr. Robert Ackerman, Silent Sons
"Intellectualizing keeps you in your head and out of your heart."
Dr. Robert Ackerman, Silent Sons
"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice."
Old Indian saying
Sometimes I think life is the task of avoiding obstacles and dealing with the unavoidable ones. It's tough. In Hinduism, it's Ganesha, Lord of Obstacles and Categories, that is the one creating and removing them.
---jss
"... in many ways, we are now living in a culture run by half-adults. fraternities used to be the main exhibit of half-adults, with their half-realized pornography. in the computer usenet group, where digital pictures are stored, 83.5 of the pictures are pornographic. the half-adults, twenty to thirty years old, don't try to protect children from the files. serious participation in politics is at an all-time low; congress allows corporations to meer air quality standards by lowering the standards. we are always under commercial pressure to slide backward, toward adolescence, toward childhood. with no effective rituals of initiation, and no real way to know when our slow progreess toward adulthood has reached its goal, young men in our culture go around in circles. those who should be adults find it difficult or impossible to offer help to those behind. that pressure seems even more intense than it was in the 1960s, when the cry 'turn on, tune in, drop out' was so popular. observers describe many contemporaries as 'children with children of their own.' ..."
Robert Bly, The Sibling Society
Anagrams of "Jason Samuel Schlachet" ..
jesus! ha ha! man collects.
an asshole clutches jam.
shh! jealous camels can't.
slush jam conceals hate.
---jss
One of my favorite Homer Simpson quotes..
homer: ohhhhh, 20 dollars! i wanted a peanut.
homer's brain: 20 dollars can buy many peanuts. homer: explain how! homer's brain: money can be exchanged for goods and services. homer: woohoo!
---jss