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Egoism Individualism Sovereignty Splendor (These ideas are explicated in this sloppy manifesto) SplendorQuotes: Splendor is the interior experience of being so enthralled by the act of creating the values that contribute to and ultimately comprise your idealized perfect self that, while you are experiencing it, you are your idealized perfect self. Living is what you're doing when you're too enthralled to notice. Dying is what you're doing when all you can do is notice. Man is the only animal capable of comprehending what his life requires, and he is the only animal capable of failing to do what his life requires. Self-love is the joy and reverence you earn and deserve by the relentless pursuit of your deepest desire. Self-esteem is the high regard in which you presume to hold yourself in appreciation for the accomplishment of absolutely nothing. Greg Swann's writings Wild Cochise Gang: Our family pages and Christmas cards Read my free e-book about love, splendor and philosophy, The Unfallen My Myers-Briggs type is ESTJ: Administrator--Much in touch with the external environment. Very responsible. Pillar of strength. 8.7% of population. Take a free Myers-Briggs personality test. War with Iraq: The Cain Doctrine The 'wrest' of the story Taking a better grip Why the Bush Doctrine will prevail--and fail A Just and Libertarian war... Persephone's second coming... presence of the recent past Nick and Norm drive the point home A Costco family Christmas Hang tough The season's greetings Curing the incuriosity of the East A canticle for Kathleen Sullivan Colloquy with a goat Back-handing the sinister American left To Condi, with sweetness Reds Sacrificing Diana Defusing the Unabomber Let 'em eat steak Shyly's delight Anastasia in the light and shadow Archives Join the email update list 
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Friday, September 12, 2003
Johnny Cash, dead at 71 
If you go to this article, you'll read about the art and the influence. Buf if you want to hear the art and the influence, listen to Tom Petty singing background vocals as Johnny Cash makes I Won't Back Down his own. The man had three careers, rockabilly, country, and the American Recordings made with rap producer Rick Rubin, surely the finest work in an amazing catalog. But he lived and died as a symbol of American indomitability--which is why Petty's I Won't Back Down is so perfectly his. The refusal to do anything any way but his own was in every cell of the man, every drop of sweat, every guttural growl from that incomparable voice. Mainstream country radio is playing Johnny Cash today, for the first time in years, and a pox on all their houses. But Johnny Cash is auditioning for a new job. A celestial choir might be a fine thing, but up front there oughta be a Man in Black... Thursday, September 11, 2003
09/11/03 Sadly enough, after just two years it's almost another quasi-religious military holiday, stripped of meaning by overt observance. How long until it becomes a Monday holiday? They can still draw a crowd at Ground Zero, but the crowds at New York-New York are gone, demonstrating the remarkable power of a museum to turn heartfelt remembrance into utter nothing. Moment for us, at least. We have a young friend, a professional Humvee crusher, who is by now making his way from Kuwait to Baghdad. Godspeed, Andy. And keep your fucking head down. To those who died, two years ago today, requiescant in pace. But to those of us who live, we who must, nolens volens, carry this war back to the death cult that spawned it--Vivamus!--Let us live! It is the Greek in us they hate, the questioner, the doubter, the mind that refuses to submit and the body that refuses to kneel. If we dare to love what they hate, we will win. Tuesday, September 09, 2003
Dave Barry on Warren Zevon A touching piece from the Miami Herald: He spent his last months mostly holed up in his apartment -- ''living out this low-budget-Elvis twilight,'' is how he described it to Hiaasen. But despite his doctors' predictions, he lived long enough to see the birth of his twin grandchildren, and he lived long enough to complete The Wind. He also lived long enough to see the album become a success, both with critics and the public. It will surely win him new fans -- people who might never have bought a Zevon album if he hadn't got all this publicity, for dying. Monday, September 08, 2003
Warren Zevon, RIP Farewell to the greatest wit in Rock 'n' Roll songwriting. "I got to be the most (expletive-deleted) rock star on the block, at least on my block," [Zevon] said. "And then I got to be a sober dad for 18 years. I've had two very full lives." |
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