different from the sum of individual parts

 

ticking time bomb

"Stress is the worst use of imagination."
- Deepak Chopra [born 1946]

disco hockey tips

inspired 1984, Brave New World

hunting people

Spain as a toilet

down and out in paris and london

poverty between the world wars

even 7 pints/week is too much

1984

glorious future

proprietor "coolest bike shop in the world"

 

big kids

 

bag of sulphuric acid

Gaslighting

 

"you can never trust what you read"

“Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.”

– William Goldman [1931-2018]

want a free mint wheelchair?

If you live in the Waterloo Region of Ontario, and need a free wheelchair, contact me: 

richard.cassel@alumni.utoronto.ca

to act in all things necessary for the salvation of God's children

Image credit here.

"I became a Father - I joined the priesthood."

never wrong

 

save our young males

 

on substance abuse

"Reality is an acquired taste."
- Matthew Perry [born 1969]

20000 rpms

"I don't like driving. Except when I'm going really fast."
- Sir Lewis Hamilton [born 1985]

cremated, no funeral

Carl Sagan's "Contact" read by Jodie Foster

 

Human Capital Management

Up in The Air [2009]

Ryan Bingham:

        [sitting across the aisle from each other on a plane] Natalie, what is it you think we do here?

Natalie Keener:

We prepare the newly unemployed for the emotional and physical hurdles of job hunting, while minimizing legal blow-back.

Ryan Bingham:

        That's what we're selling. It's not what we're doing.

Natalie Keener:

        

        Okay, what are we doing?

Ryan Bingham:

We are here to make limbo tolerable, to ferry wounded souls across the river of dread until the point where hope is dimly visible. And then stop the boat, shove them in the water and make them swim.

"Que sais-je?

“Don’t discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose. If you belittle yourself, you are believed. If you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.”

– Michel de Montaigne [1533-1592]

career day

"I am not a manual labourer and please God I shall never be one, but there are some kinds of manual work that I could do if I had to. At a pinch I could be a tolerable road-sweeper or an inefficient gardener or even a tenth-rate farm hand. But by no conceivable amount of effort or training could I become a coal-miner; the work would kill me in a few weeks."

- George Orwell [1903-1950], Road to Wigan Pier

thinking and feeling

"If all were rational nothing would get done."
- Attributed to Abigail Adams [1744-1818]

that's a wrap

 

hellraiser

 

"The only exercise I get is walking behind the coffins of old mates who exercised."
- Peter O'Toole [1932-2013]