DIALOGUE FROM 'MOTIVE'

A Canadian police show that is more about finding the murderer than shooting people. A great line from one brother to another…

Brother#2: Who died and left you Mother?”

Brother#1: “Mom!”

APOCALYPSE...NOW?

 
"Apocalypse Now: What does the threat bring out in you? 

Someone asked, "Do you really believe we're headed for an apocalypse?"

Dude! The apocalypse is already here!
Sci-fi writer William Gibson said the future arrives at different speeds. Same is true of the end that could throw us backward a hundred years.

I look around and I see the power of antibiotics fading as the bugs come back stronger. There's an excellent chance we won't be able to have the surgeries we have now because our antibiotics will no longer work. Do you want to go back to pre-1928 medicine? Of course, not. Nobody wants to die of a sore throat, a bladder infection or appendicitis. But that is our present course. 

I see fracking causing earthquakes and flammable water in kitchen sinks.

I see perma-war.

Most disturbing, I see an unwillingness to change, anti-science and anti-intellectualism. 

Worst? I see a lack of compassion.
Citizens are in big trouble on Spaceship Earth and a lot of people, speaking from fear and ignorance, seem determined to be dicks about it." by Robert Chazz  Chute

Found the above on a blog post from a writer of zombie apocalypse books & suspense fiction. Struck me as very true, and perhaps scarier than all the horror fiction & movies I've read or watched over the last 50 years.

TRUER WORDS WERE NEVER SPOKEN

“Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.” 

Frank Zappa

6 SECRET (UNTIL NOW!) LAWS OF BUSINESS

1. Helmsley's Law of Deteriorating Personality

The bigger your balance sheet, the more likely you are to become a jerk.

2. The Universal Doctrine of Policy Expansion

The more employee policies you put in place, the less likely you are to treat employees fairly.

3. The Law of Diminishing Participation Returns

The more people who have input into a decision the less valuable the outcome.

4. The Inverse Square Rule of Proximity

The less time you spend with your employees, the lower their engagement and level of performance.

5. The Inverse Square Rule of Attractiveness

The closer you are to me the less attractive I appear.

6. Eastwood's First Law of Silence

The people who say the most have the least to say.

(From Jeff Haden on Linkedin.com)

BANGORRHEA

Meaning the overuse of exclamation points...

who knew?

According to the late author, Elmore Leonard, "Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose."

JAMES MADISON, 4th PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.A.

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land;

it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

‘The editor wanted a surname beginning with C, Waites says, because shoppers' eyes are naturally drawn to the top of the second bookshelf in a book shop. That is normally where books by "C" authors live.

"When I was writing as Martyn Waites, I was right at the end. People had to bend down to the bookshelf and get them," he laughs. "They wouldn't bother and they'd get Lee Child instead."’

(From BBCOnline article on picking an author’s pen-name)

(...And not having heard of C. Waites (what does he wait for - buyers?) 

I would be more than happy to pick up a Lee Child book.)

TRUER WORDS WERE NEVER SPOKEN

 “…corporations are essentially immortals with all of the rights of people and none of the consequences or responsibilities, and whose profits have been declared free speech that can be used to influence our politics.”
(from Brookston Beer Bulletin)
                                                     Read the whole article here

Which is actually about beer in Mexico; but the quote above pretty much covers every big business, doesn't it?

GROUCHO MARX ON TELEVISION

“I find television very educating. Every time

somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”

TELL ME HOW YOU REALLY FEEL

“Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity.

I don’t like ambiguity. I don’t trust ambiguity.”

(John Wayne)

BEST MOVIE LINE 2013

From the movie Argo:

“Argo fuck yourself!”

(said by numerous characters)

And while we’re on the subject, a very good movie; drama, suspense, and some humor thrown in. Remembering when the Shah was overthrown adds to the drama - and  a guy I worked with back then was actually in Iran on a service call and left the week before the shit hit the fan!

ART/NOT ART

“Art is the last thing I’m worried about when I write a song. I don’t think it really matters. If you want to call it art, yeah, okay, you can call it art. As far as I’m concerned,art is just short for Arthur.”

Keith Richards

TV QUOTE

“It’s time for tai chi and they’re 

serving chai tea.”

(Dialogue from TV’s  Hot In Cleveland.)

DAVE MURRAY SEZ:

“One thing I’m proud of is that we never became ‘housewives’ choice’.      You can’t iron to Iron Maiden.”

JIMMY PAGE QUOTE

"Would anyone still be interested in the mudshark if the music hadn't been there?"

Rolling Stone issue 1171,12/6/12

FROM DESPAIR.COM

"We received several emails yesterday 

afternoon and evening 

from people who were forbidden, either by 

technology or 

circumstance, from participating in our "Green 

Monday" sale.  Apparently, some employers 

out there actually BLOCK 

"Despair.com

" on their firewalls for some 

inexplicable reason!  (I can't imagine what that 

would be. We love companies just as much 

as Misery does.)"

ACTUAL REVIEW ON AMAZON.COM

“The Pat McGee band is great. When you listen to their stuff for the first time, you feel like you've heard it a million times before. Five stars.”

Wow! Makes me want to run right out and buy it...what could be better than something you've already heard a million times before!! 
 I know, how about I don't play it and pretend I've already heard it 999,999 times already?

TRUE...AND YET...

“Evolution doesn’t care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does”

Seth MacFarlane

YOU SAY THAT LIKE IT'S A BAD THING

I realize [Tampa] is a young city, and I 

understand that 

attempts are being made to get people to 

move downtown,” 

Baker wrote in the email. “But during the 

convention the lack 

of shade, the endless parking lots, and the 

lack of people 

made it seem all too often like the set for 

some dystopic zombie movie.”

TRUE THAT!

“The likelihood of James Bond having chlamydia is extremely high”

Dr Sarah Jarvis, GP and regular on the BBC's The One Show