It's been a while since I read the book of Maccabees

But I recall a lot of it was about the Romans shredding, roasting, dicing, stretching, and filleting various Jews for refusing to dishonor their God. It was pretty gross. Not sure why it’s a good name for a pizza snack.


MACABABIES!

Sad news.

FITNESS CELEBRITY JOHN BASEDOW!
FITNESS CELEBRITY JOHN BASEDOW!
FITNESS CELEBRITY JOHN BASEDOW!

First time as tragedy, second time as farce, third time as infomercial: history repeats itself.

Travel articles we never finished reading

“Move over, Cambodia. Bhutan is the new must-see destination in southern Asia. “

JUCHE!

Big Brother is shaving you.

I just fell in love with Alien Loves Predator

Greetings from Lake Newport-Mesa

Two more days of rain to come. Blub blub.

( animation of oncoming H2Opocalypse )

I like Jack Ziegler.

Dirge Without Music

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.
Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains,--but the best is lost.
The answers quick and keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love, --
They are gone. They are gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled
Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.
More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave,
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

-- Edna St. Vincent Millay