July 2010
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“And then there is Kinkade’s proclivity for ‘ritual territory...”
– Dark Portrait of a `Painter of Light’ - Los Angeles Times
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A time to expand your horizons
In my very first semester of college, on the peace-loving Quaker campus of Guilford college, I had a wonderful conversation between myself, my friend Eric Parisi(at the time a Junior) and his assigned roommate for the year - a massive, spindly, red-headed freshmen, a young man less than discrete about his opinion of the modern folly of regular grooming.
I will call him Rolig as I forget his name.
ERIC: *(speaking to Aaron)* That's what I said to him – he was Catholic and I was certain he would appreciate the…
ROLIG: Urrrhh, Catholic. I can't support organized religion.
AARON: Well, this is a Quaker school.
ERIC: It's a kind of self-organization at the very least.
ROLIG: Urrrgh, yeah self-organization. But anything else. *(flips a pair of drumsticks onto his pillow)*
ERIC: You've thought about this!
ROLIG: I'm a nihilist. (*smile*)
ERIC and AARON: You…
ROLIG: I believe in nothing. *(looks down, wiggles his toes)*
ERIC: But that's the thing, Rolig, you've already lost it. Now you believe in something. You're not even a nihilist anymore.
ROLIG: Urrfgh *(scratches beard)* but then, if I'm not a nihilist anymore then I really don't believe anything.
AARON: You've done it! You are a super-nihilist. You don't believe even in nihilism.
ERIC: Then how do you live your life? You must have some kind of principles - Come on, you're not a nihilist…or a super-nihilist.
ROLIG: *(fingertips to eyelids)* Uuurgh, I just think that their should be no laws deciding how we should live.
ERIC: Oh, you mean you're an anarchist?
ROLIG: That too. I decided I was a nihilist in high school.
ERIC: Wow, you believe in nothing!
AARON: The chaos of high school!
ROLIG: *(stretching to touch the ceiling)* I don't eat anything with a limbic system.
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I did decree…
Blow it off and blow it
Within the confines of my phone does rest a routine of software that when invoked will record each phrase and mumble that I craft.
Clumsy of mind and physique I neglect this code and pay the price. A few button presses today and I could have put down that idea. No, it was not a revelation or insight. It was an idea and a starting point. And that’s all you need.
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Comicsgirl & Night Owls →
Thanks to Comicsgirl!
In my slow road back to full comic book appreciation it is little articles like this that are most rewarding. Night Owls, by the Timony twins looks great – I love that illustration style, and Comicsgirl runs a nice site.