August 24th, 2006

Not really a joke....

  • Aug. 24th, 2006 at 8:24 PM
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A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to
visit their old university professor. The conversation soon turned
into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and
returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain,
plastic, glass, crystal, some plain-looking, some expensive, and some exquisite -
telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

After all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor
said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up,
leaving behind, the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only
the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.

"Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most
cases, it's just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we
drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously
went for the best cups...and then began eyeing each other's cups.

"Now consider this: Life is the coffee, and the jobs, money and position
in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life, and
the type of cup we have does not define nor change the quality of life
we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy
the coffee God has provided us."

God brews the coffee, not the cups . . enjoy your coffee.

Aug. 24th, 2006

  • 10:27 PM
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I just watched Post Blue three times in a row, because it is just that awesome.

It's utterly the Tam siblings (from Firefly/Serenity) inextricably intertwined. Every word is Simon's devotion to River, and the imagery receives that and filters it through River's perception.  The music has just enough anxiety to express what it's like to be them, and the effects and cuts in the vid enhance that feeling and the discordance of living in River Tam's brain.

The announcement (see link above) has a BIG GLARING WARNING (her words) about the crazy space incest.  Personally, in spite of the line "in the special way we fuck" and the in-bed hugging, I don't see it.  I don't see it in spite of the protective embrace while she's naked.  I probably wouldn't see any sexing going on there unless porn shots were slipped in.  However, your mileage may vary, so exercise prudence.

I'm going to go watch it again....