__________________ "Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how theTatty 100 is done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves." - Brendan Behan
Happy Birthday, MattJohn! It's been a long, strange trip so far, and it's surreal watching someone go from 15 to 20 right in front of your eyes. But it's also pretty cool, and I'm still as thrilled as ever to have you here, buddy.
__________________ "I was walking down the street with my friend and he said, "I hear music", as if there is any other way you can take it in. You're not special, that's how I receive it too. I tried to taste it but it did not work." - Mitch Hedberg
Thanks guys. Not trying to be a downer...but I'm not enjoying my birthday at all.
__________________ "This is that human freedom, which all boast that they possess, and which consists solely in the fact, that men are conscious of their own desire, but are ignorant of the causes whereby that desire has been determined."-Baruch Spinoza
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"Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."