May 2012
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“Lighting fire to fields,
from the ground...
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So if I asked you about art, you’d probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about him. Life’s work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientations, the whole works, right? But I’ll bet you can’t tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You’ve never actually stood there and looked up at that...
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Relevant: my great-grandmother was born in 1904...
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“It’s the end of the Second World War, and the United States is deciding what to do about two immense, poor, densely populated countries in Asia. America chooses one of the countries, becoming its benefactor. Over the decades, it pours billions of dollars into that country’s economy, training and equipping its military and its intelligence services. The stated goal is to create a...
No Wonder
“It’s no wonder we’re all in such a mess, is it? We’re like Tom Hanks in ‘Big.’ Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it. And it’s much worse in real life, because it’s not just snogging and bunk beds, is if? There’s all this as well.” - High Fidelity
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Time Travel
Sometimes I wish I could time travel back to critical moments in my life just to give myself a great big hug and say, “Hang in there, kid, it’s gonna be ok.”
This edition of “Weird and Deep Thoughts With MJ” is now complete.
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I took a trip to the fair, but nobody was there.
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The sweetest thing I’ve ever heard is I...
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You know you’re not the only one to wait so...
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““If you catch somebody ‘acting’ in a movie, that actor is...”
– Author: Michael Caine Title: Acting in Film Publisher: Applause Theater Book Publishers Date: Copyright 1990, 1997 by Applause Theater Book Publishers Pages: 4-11
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Every Day I Break a Promise to Myself
I have a two goals that I really, REALLY want to accomplish every single day. But sometimes meeting those goals just isn’t feasible. Between my day job (surprise surprise - I really DO have one of those), socializing (my friends are pretty awesome, I must say), and all the other things I want or need to do (ain’t life hard?), two of my primary goals just keep slipping through the...
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The first time I ran away…
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Like.
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This song makes think of Fairhope, AL.