Categories quotes

Beautiful and Strange

Thought I shared this a while ago, but it came up again in reading today: There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. – Francis Bacon

Categories friends

womens

I went looking for an old photo today, of a friend back in college. Open the “photos” folder, open the “people” folder, open the “friends” folder. Looking at the thumbnails, I’m immediately struck that the majority of photos are disturbingly attractive women. Kind of self-selectig, no doubt. Women are typically Continue Reading

Categories art

art.

I know blind, one-legged Buddhists who decorate a christmas tree better than our national tree. The tree itself is kind of frumpy, to begin with. Shouldn’t the national tree be the perfect specimen of Christmashood? They proceed to cover it with a blanket of lights. You can’t go more than Continue Reading