He might just as reasonably order a durable suit of clothes, --leather, or guttapercha,
or whatever else lasts longest, --so that his great-grandchildren should have the benefit of them, and cut precisely the same figure in the world that he himself does.
House Of Seven Gables
If he tells them to build a palace forty miles long out of di'monds, and fill it full of chewing-gum,
or whatever you want, and fetch an emperor's daughter from China for you to marry, they've got to do it -- and they've got to do it before sun-up next morning, too.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The mind accepts whatever it sees
or whatever pictures you compose for it.
Not book-learned
Those selling oil could convert those dollars back to euros or Japanese yen
or whatever their hearts desired, and likewise could convert euros obtained through sales on an Iranian bourse back into dollars, if they wished."
End of the petro-dollar? Is Tehran about to deploy an economic weapon potentially more deadly than a nuclear bomb?
In our daily lives every day brings problems, whether it is with our children, our boss, the traffic
or whatever. When things happen against our wishes, we do not like it and start getting stressed.
Theme for the day
It's a dumbing down serum; it's not even escape anymore, it almost seems like it's designed to numb people and render their brains incapable of processing anything besides how to write down an 800 number so you can call American Idol Baby and vote for the best-singing three-year-old
or whatever. It's beyond anything I could have imagined.
"I am a poet too": in Sarah Jones's latest play, first-generation immigrants at a poetry reading take on racism and xenophobia in the era of homeland security
You ever had that kind of experience where you are in that zone
or whatever, you just do it til you're finished, then you go to bed?
Amiri Baraka analyzes how he writes
Whereas once there was neo-geo, neo-expressionism,
or whatever else doing battle, the only thing antagonistic to painting now is everything outside it, if the curators who do Documenta or the Venice Biennale are any kind of gauge.
Ross Bleckner talks to Dan Cameron. ('80s Then)
"It has long been the law that `[n]o tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called,
or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.'"
Texas lawmakers wrangle over content of legislative prayers. (People & Events)
I like being really involved with what's going on--that way, when you're hurt
or whatever, you can still be involved with skating.
Tony Manfre: "you have to use your imagination". (Heads_Manfre)
Then, like so many ordinary gay people discover when they come out to their loved ones and coworkers, the shock,
or whatever you want to call it, is easier to process.
Rallying around Rosie. (notes from a blond)
WHATEVER they want
or whatever they're into, at Virgin Megastores this Christmas we've done all the hardwork for you and found the best gifts for the family.
WHAT EVER TURNS YOU ON THIS CHRISTMAS..YOU'LL FIND IT AT VIRGIN MEGASTORES: WHATEVER THEY WANT -WE'VE GOT IT
So if you need to retrieve something that's been lost due to an unintentional shutdown for what Windows calls an "illegal operation" or a "general protection fault" or a power-outage,
or whatever, GoBack can restore your system to status quo ante.
Roxio's Flagship CD Software Is Not Heady For Prime Time
All along the route, she talked about the portents of when Saturn and Jupiter were in the ascendant up Uranus
or whatever it was.
Is science a religion?