Good News!

Anne Bogart, speaking at the New School on Monday, October 18th, 2010, made this highly reassuring announcement:

"I propose that post-modernism is over. It's done. And the only way that happens is, you say it."

I'm very glad to hear that post-modernism is over. I was never really very into it.

Poem or Lyrics or Something

Some girls think they're clever
Just because they're ugly;
Some girls think they're pretty
Just because they're stupid;
Some girls think they're funny
Just because they're bitter;
Some girls think they're independent
When all they are is lonely.

A Possibly Inspiring Thought

Your whole life has prepared you for what you do next.

The Greatest Sentence of All Time

Seen on an informational plaque in the Evolution Garden at the Singapore Botanic Gardens:

Something magnolia-like used to be considered the primitive flowering plant, but recently an ancestral waterlily has been proposed.

UES

Overheard between a young child in a stroller and her Asian nanny:

NANNY: I'm not Mommy. I'm Mamu.

CHILD: (insistently) Mommy!

NANNY: Stop that. Mommy gonna be mad at me.

A Reassuring Thought

At some point, it's going to seem like it was all meant to be.

A Motivational Thought

Today you live in the world you made yesterday; tomorrow you will live in the world you make today.