banality of evil

 Hitler's maid:

childhood trauma changes the brain

Abusers "coach little league, teach school, volunteer as Gray Ladies [provide nonprofessional care and services for the sick and convalescent usually in hospitals],  know the Bible ... they do all these things and even cry ... and then they have to balance themselves out." "The worst crime is that they expect you not to tell."

- Darrell Hammond [born 1955], Cracked Up

Banksy

formidable

drawing truth to power

 

The Crack-Up

"... the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function ... One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the 'impossible,' come true.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940], The Crack-Up

brain sugar routine

I drink "maybe 16" Coca-Cola beverages daily. "But I don't drink all of them. Maybe 12. I start them, but then it starts to get warm."
- Carrie Fisher [1956-2016]

Charlie Chaplin's go to entree

 Grilled Lamb Kidneys. Bacon $25 [2021 price]

on prognostication

 

famous for native themes

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.” 

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [1807-1882]

the anointed

Christus: the messiah who was named Jesus.

Pow

"When we were coming up in the early '60s, there were no drugs. Alcohol was our drug. We thought the alcohol killed the brain cells that caused inhibition."

- Sir Michael Caine [born 1933]

Clint Eastwood's Carmel by the Sea

 

"Gallery of the Louvre"

- Samuel F.B Morris [1791-1872] analyzed thousands of Old Masters and depicted about 20 he believed Americans should know about.

filament

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

– Thomas A. Edison [1847-1931]

opposed to Confederate monuments

“I think it wise not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, to commit to oblivion the feelings engendered.”

- Robert E. Lee, 1869 [1807-1870]

on mental health

"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."
- James Danforth "Dan" Quayle [born 1947]

peering over the border

"The artist's duty is to raise questions, not to answer them."
- JR [born 1983]

Paper and Glue documentary now streaming here.

world's top vending machines

 

ladened with disrespect

Q/ How do you know if someone owns a Tesla?

A/ Don't worry, they'll tell you.

debonair

"Prison does strange things to men. Although its purpose is to break the free spirit of a man, in many cases it just adds fuel to the fire that has never been and will never be extinguished."
- William Powell [1892-1984]

nadir of world history

The Black Death [1346-1353] is estimated to have killed 30 percent to 60 percent of the European population.

apex of world history

Age of Antonines [reigned AD 138–161]: limited historical writings remain, but in this humble anti-tyrannical reign there were few and short lived wars, rare civil strife, prosperity globally and happiness across all ranks. But 180 AD marked the beginning of Rome's end.

おめでとう

“Don’t ever think that just because you do things differently, you’re wrong.”

– Gail Tsukiyama [born 1957]

flawed, deceptive, false

"If you have a theory, you'll find ways to support it."

objects altering reality

 

ad agency sells itself

 

e·qui·poise

noun

      balance of forces or interests.

verb

        balance or counterbalance (something).

Rockford Files

from killing racoons to winning an oscar