Among the cool things I received for my birthday:
- Beatles Gear (Andy Babiuk)
- White Knight (Todd Rundgren)
- An Evening with Todd Rundgren
Singer-Songwriter, Novelist
Among the cool things I received for my birthday:
I loved The Time Tunnel television show when I was a kid. I used the concept years later for the cover art of The Jerrys’ CD, Let’s Groove.
“You must always be high. Everything depends on it: it is the only question. So as not to feel the horrible burden of Time wrecking your back and bending you to the ground, you must get high without respite.
But on what? On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, whatever you like. But get high.
And if sometimes you wake up, on palace steps, on the green grass of a ditch, in your room’s gloomy solitude, your intoxication already waning or gone, ask the wind, the waves, the stars, the birds, clocks, ask everything that flees, everything that moans, everything that moves, everything that sings, everything that speaks, ask what time it is. And the wind, the waves, the stars, the birds, clocks, will answer, ‘It is time to get high! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get high; get high constantly! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.’”
Charles Baudelaire, Le Spleen de Paris
“Mindfulness is never boring. Look again.” ~ Bhante Gunaratana
I just attended the Higher Logic Super Forum in Arlington, Virginia, where I learned tons more about managing online communities. On the way home, still stoked from the event and reading Richard Millington’s Buzzing Communities, I took a break to take in the view.
I got this brochure at the World Trade Center one night in 1982. For the record, the view was spectacular.
I used lead and charcoal to create this drawing of a photo of New York City in 1983.
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thoughts, and it is based on our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage.” ~ Dhammapada
Back in grade school, you could tell a lot about a guy by his lunch box. This was mine.
I just returned from a trip to the West Coast, where I stayed at the Fairmont San Francisco. The hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, and I highly recommend you stay there if you ever get the chance.