in pursuit of ... laziness ?

What is this life if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare.

-- from "Leisure," by W.H. Davies

Interesting link from Giles Bowkett's site
Koyaanisqatsi ?

in other news, reddit.com is now officially a rag, I've gotta stop going there

The 35-hour week of the French is gone
I used to wonder about it when people would talk about the superior culture of the French. After I read the article at the link, I understood. Now I worry that it might come to not be, in this age of haste.

"They" are out to make ants out of us. "They" might very well be an "it" too.

Guilt be the reins of the Horse called Fear, and is a motivator. Beware.

Over the weekend, I saw 'The Shipping News', bits of 'The Shadow' and the new Steve Martin version of the 'Pink Panther'. Ecellent, interesting ,tasteless respectively.

Movies are moving to short and shorter sentences and simpler and simpler plots and 2d characters. It's a sign.

For ages people used to live off the land. Market forces are putting an end to this.
Under free markets, the most you can do in life is work for your living. Everything you like you must make,keep and maintain. So choose carefully. Idleness is not an option, unless there's a market for it

I'm going to go ahead and label the Advertising & Marketing Industry worldwide as the Industrial Lie Machines and Stealers of our Consciousness and Clouders of Thinking ... please find me some more apt adjectives, I seem to have run out ..