"some of you are going to die / martyrs of course to the freedom that i shall provide"

[larryhammer]

Things the world's most and least privileged people say. (via Janni)

An adaptation of Star Wars IV: A New Hope as a very long infographic. (via)

And because I love you for putting the 'trophy' in 'astrophysics', here's a pun generator. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from "The Knife," Genesis.

Comments

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Things the world's most and least privileged people say.

Ouch.

[larryhammer]

Yes. Exactly. Ouch.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

I was reminded of a time in Pacific Grove when I was painting the inside of a cottage my father had built there before I was born. My hired helper worked beside me, and neither of us being expert we were well splattered. Suddenly we found ourselves out of paint. "Neal," I said, "run up to Holman's and get a half-gallon of paint and a quart of thinner."

"I'll have to clean up and change my clothes," he said.

"Nuts! Go as you are."

"I can't do it."

"Why not? I would."

Then he said a wise and memorable thing. "You got to be awful rich to dress as bad as you do," he said.

John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

[larryhammer]

Heh. Yes. That.

I'm clearly due to reread Travels with Charley.

---L.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

"The Knife"! Small nostalgia attack - suddenly I'm sitting in my cousin's living room in Wolverhampton, listening to Genesis Live. (It's 1975 or so.)

[larryhammer]

Hee.

I didn't discover Genesis until university, in the mid-80s, and became a completist. It's one of theirs that performs live very well -- especially when sung by Peter Gabriel.