Michael
Archive for May, 2008
Kesey on Cassady
Posted in interesting, language, reading, tagged cassady, funny, kesey, neat on 25 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why must they tease me?
Posted in happiness, opinion, truth, tagged cigar, cuban, good on 24 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The cigar of the week on Cigar Aficionado is, of course, a Cuban, which kills me. I sometimes wish our nation would come down with, what I’m going to call, “Dispute Alzheimer’s.” Then we could import Cuban goods, and I could have a Montecristo No. 2
Michael
“An idea is putting truth in checkmate.”-Ortega y Gasset
Posted in America, English, Patriotism, addiction, annoyance, art, books, classics, college life, death, freewrite, happiness, health, history, hope, interesting, labor, language, life, opinion, perception, questions, random, reality, religion, trial and error, writing, tagged ortega y gasset, philosophy, revolt of the masses on 21 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Originally posted on January 17th, 2008, on my notes section on Facebook.
Today I sat and read three essays of Ortega y Gasset’s, and now I find a better understanding of the masses, and the common man. I feel an entirely different view on many things than I had.
I used to feel the largest problem with [...]
Small is the new Large.
Posted in English, addiction, annoyance, death, facts, freewrite, happiness, hope, interesting, language, life, opinion, perception, questions, random, reading, reality, truth, writing, tagged life, nature, reality, science on 21 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Originally written on December 31st, 2007, and posted on my notes on Facebook.
I am sitting just 1/7th into revolt of the masses, which is by José Ortega y Gasset. I suggest this to anyone interested in something of value in your search for what matters and self-understanding.
I can’t help but wonder on the idea of [...]
The Search for the Know
Posted in addiction, annoyance, college life, death, family, freewrite, friends, happiness, health, hope, interesting, language, life, opinion, questions, random, reality, trial and error, writing, tagged content, death, life, searching on 21 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I originally wrote this on December 17th, 2007, and posted it on my notes section on facebook. Found it may be interesting to throw on here.
I feel that every moment I spend recently has been wasting. I can’t imagine doing this for several more years to get my masters as I plan to. I can’t [...]
The next adventure: Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
Posted in English, art, books, classics, freewrite, happiness, history, interesting, language, life, opinion, random, reality, writing, tagged play, playwright, samuel beckett, tragicomedy, waiting for godot on 21 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not entirely sure what a “tragicomedy” is; I could make some assumptions, but as I’m told all the time: “When you assume, you make an ass out of you and me!” Har Har. Oh my friends are just too funny [sarcasm for those not familiar].
Well, here’s a link to Waiting for Godot by Samuel [...]
It’s not those who think they know everything that bother me…
Posted in Uncategorized on 20 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Drawings from first semester’s art class
Posted in art, freewrite, happiness, interesting, school, trial and error, tagged art, charcoal, drawing, life studio, pencil, vine charcoal on 11 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
During my first semester I had to take a class in life studio. We would draw this model for three hours a day every Wednesday; it began to hurt having to look at the same person all the time, but I went through with it and ended up drawing some pictures that, I really think, [...]
