The Baking Soda Galaxy
“In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”
- Carl Sagan
1 comment February 3rd, 2010
Posts filed under 'Quotes'
Camargo, IL pt.5
In terms of my grandfather, truer words were never spoken than…
“I’d rather be fishin’.”
Add comment February 2nd, 2010
Camargo, IL pt.1
When I was a kid, I used to spend a good chunk of my summer vacations staying with my grandparents at their home in Camargo, IL. My days would be filled with fishing with my grandpa and helping him out in his garden; there was a decent amount of daytime soaps watching with my grandma; and every once in a while we would take the bass boat down to Millcreek to go swimming and for more fishing. I loved every second of it and so looked forward to going back with every school year ending.
When my grandma died a few years ago, I flew back from California a couple weeks after her death to spend a long weekend with my grandpa, just the two of us. It was late March, and unfortunately too early in the spring to do any fishing or gardening. With little else to do, we watched a lot of TV on that trip, particularly a marathon of Cash Cabs. We were addicted to that show.
One afternoon, I went out for a walk to take some photos of the house and surrounding area. It seemed all too appropriate the bleakness in the air and the lack of life in the hibernating trees and plants. As an adult, I couldn’t help but see this little old farm town, population under 500, in quite a different light. Long gone were those vibrant summers from my youth, and it made me really sad.
To quote my grandpa: “Don’t ever grow up, Ryan. It’s hell.”
Add comment January 28th, 2010
Brooklyn Bridge
“When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.”
- Paul Auster The Brooklyn Follies: A Novel
Add comment January 21st, 2010
SXSW pt.3
Take this sinking boat and point it home
We’ve still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you had a choice
You’ve made it now
Falling slowly sing your melody
I’ll sing along
- Glen Hansard “Falling Slowly”
(seen above with The Frames at SXSW in ‘05)
Add comment January 12th, 2010
Kim’s New Hat
“A hat is a flag, a shield, a bit of armor, and the badge of femininity. A hat is the difference between wearing clothes and wearing a costume; it’s the difference between being dressed and being dressed up; it’s the difference between looking adequate and looking your best. A hat is to be stylish in, to glow under, to flirt beneath, to make all others seem jealous over, and to make all men feel masculine about. A piece of magic is a hat.”
- Martha Sliter
Add comment January 6th, 2010
The Brothers Schlenbecker
“It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.”
- Dylan Thomas
2 comments December 31st, 2009
Whiteout
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
- Robert Frost
1 comment December 27th, 2009
Vegas Baby
“What was I doing here? What was the meaning of this trip? Was I just roaming around in a drug frenzy of some kind? Or had I really come out here to Las Vegas to work on a story? Who are these people, these faces? Where do they come from? They look like caricatures of used car dealers from Dallas, and sweet Jesus, there were a hell of a lot of them at 4:30 on a Sunday morning, still humping the American dream, that vision of the big winner somehow emerging from the last minute pre-dawn chaos of a stale Vegas casino.” – Raoul Duke Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Add comment December 22nd, 2009
The Ice Storm pt.4
“Because of molecules we are connected to the outside world from our bodies. Like when you smell things, because when you smell a smell it’s not really a smell, it’s a part of the object that has come off of it, molecules. So when you smell something bad, it’s like in a way you’re eating it. This is why you should not really smell things, in the same way that you don’t eat everything in the world around you because as a smell, it gets inside of you. So the next time you go into the bathroom after someone else has been there, remember what kinds of molecules you are in fact eating.”
- Mikey Carver The Ice Storm
Add comment December 17th, 2009
