| #1001: | Childbirth: one of the world's most narcissistic acts. Raising a child who's already here: one of the least narcissistic. |
| #1002: | Actually, beautiful people usually finish LAST, because beauty is fleeting and discourages the development of other skills. |
| #1003: | What most people take for "thirst" is really an addict's craving for caffeine. Bodily fluid levels are fine. |
| #1004: | Did you know that Wilkes Barre-Scranton has an INTERNATIONAL airport? I'm wondering what foreign cities are served from there. |
| #1005: | The most dangerous people are those with absolute moral certainty about what should be done. |
| #1006: | My definition for "holographic": something that exists for itself, on its own terms, without need for others. Compare to "holographic will". |
| #1007: | "holographic relationship" - a relationship that exists solely for itself, without any expectation of outside acknowledgment or reward. |
| #1008: | Most people make poor photographers because they can't separate their own emotions from what actually appears in the eye. |
| #1009: | Half the battle of life is learning to see what's actually there in front of you versus what you want to be there. - #existentialism |
| #1010: | Dead skunk is the official state odor of Pennsylvania. |
| #1011: | Charity must never seem like charity. For the gift to be effective, the recipient must work for it. |
| #1012: | It is unfair to blame the opposite gender for your own failures in love. Gays fail just as badly and in exactly the same ways. |
| #1013: | Words won't change an emotionally-driven behavior. Only boundaries can. http://bit.ly/hRjxO (Kilroy Cafe #22) Addiction, dom. violence, etc. |
| #1014: | We construct our own romantic disasters. The opposite gender just fulfills them for us. |
| #1015: | Juvenile justice is America's only serious attempt at rehabilitative justice - i.e. intended to actually reduce future crime. |
| #1016: | My new photos from Calgary, Alberta: http://bit.ly/Qi2Z8 |
| #1017: | The risk in giving advice is that if someone follows it and gets in trouble, you are responsible. Call it the "Advice Dilemma". |
| #1018: | The Advice Dilemma prevents the release of useful information to people who need it. The advice must be foolproof or the advisor is liable. |
| #1019: | The Advice Dilemma means that advice must coded and the recipient tested. "I can't tell you what to do but here's a hint." |
| #1020: | In love, as in cell phone contracts, pay-as-you-go is usually preferable to long commitments. |
| #1021: | The cost of security is loss of freedom -- and even then you rarely get the security you expected. |
| #1022: | The problem with long commitments is the world may change in ways you weren't expecting, then you're trapped in the old path. |
| #1023: | Work sucks and school discourages independent learning, but most people need these structures to avoid even worse chaos. |
| #1024: | It can be a great ego boost to know you chose the right religion and that God loves you the best. Lucky you! |
| #1025: | Breaking News from The Onion: China Strong! http://bit.ly/2KA1NS - Americans Love Fish By-Product! http://bit.ly/V5jZ4 - LMAO! |
| #1026: | There's something ever-so-slightly wrong with this Chinese company website. Can you find it? http://yuwanmei.com/ |
| #1027: | Dreams, once fulfilled, often become prisons. |
| #1028: | Passing through Hannibal, Missouri, I ponder how the good Dr. Lector has forever changed the meaning of this name. |
| #1029: | The lower half of the Mississippi River has been misnamed! It should be called the Missouri because that's the bigger river when they join. |
| #1030: | Travelers' essentials along any highway in America: gas stations, restaurants, motels, adult superstores, "Nude Girls - XXX". |
| #1031: | Seen along a highway in Texas: "Make a Difference... Be A Corrections Officer". Photo: http://bit.ly/4g9yys - Never thought of it that way. |
| #1032: | People usually choose their life based on how it looks in the brochure, not on how they actually experience it. - #existentialism |
| #1033: | When you get used to jetlag, you can easily wake and sleep anytime, but If you fail to get enough sleep, your mental processes deteriorate. |
| #1034: | Many cities have "airports", but only Portland, Maine, has a "jetport". That's because they're hip, with-it and totally groovy, man! |
| #1035: | I walk about 3 mph on the flat. Handy to know when planning public transit. Should I bus it - or walk it? |
| #1036: | The next Civil War will pit the Waffle House states against the Dunkin' Donuts states. |
| #1037: | "He brought his BITCH to the Waffle Hut!" -- The Ladykillers |
| #1038: | There's not much money is supplying people's needs. Supplying their addictions is where you make the big bucks! |
| #1039: | Pan Am has been reincarnated as "Pan Am World Railways", a clunky railroad in the Northeast. Saw the name and logo on a boxcar and went HUH? |
| #1040: | "I asked myself, 'Where would people never notice a town full of robots?'... Connecticut!" -- The Stepford Wives |
| #1041: | The proper local pronunciation of "New Orleans" is "Nawlins". |
| #1042: | Some kind of POST-APOCALYPTIC NIGHTMARE!? How else to explain why everyone's trying to ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK the same Friday afternoon I am? |
| #1043: | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but the word almost always refers to some form of graceful simplicity. |
| #1044: | Beauty isn't something muddied and confusing but clear and direct. |
| #1045: | Rights are what protects you from the inevitable incompetence of government. - #law |
| #1046: | Hate to admit it, but Wal-Mart is my touchstone. As I wander rootlessly, I stop here 2-3 times a day. Don't even buy much. Just reassurance. |
| #1047: | In Oregon and New Jersey, you can't pump your own gas. Attendants have to do it. It's the (stupid) law! AKA "socialism". |
| #1048: | Just say "No" to tattoos! They (a) deteriorate with time and (b) commit you to a message you might not always agree with. |
| #1049: | Which was more significant: the Wright Brothers' first flight in 1903 or Zefram Cochran's invention of the warp drive in 2063? Explain. |
| #1050: | Most people were never meant to be self-employed. Without a structure provided by others, they self-destruct. |
| #1051: | The simple insanity of New York: Can't leave LaGuardia cuz I don't have EXACT CHANGE for the bus (dollar bills not accepted). I H8 NY! |
| #1052: | I'm now a card-carrying New Yorker, with a shiny new MetroCard subway card. Got $8 invested in this town! High hopes, low expectations. |
| #1053: | Got to admit New Yorkers are a proud people. They don't even know they're living in depravity and squalor. |
| #1054: | Anyone notice how COMPLETELY POINTLESS Times Square is? People come to gawk at advertising, so they just keep putting more up! |
| #1055: | If your comfort food was JUST NOT EATING, you could probably lose a lot of weight! |
| #1056: | If traveling in or out of New York City, check out the incredible bus deals at http://megabus.com - $18 to Boston, etc. THIS IS NOT SPAM™! |
| #1057: | This homeless community has rules to live by. NY Times: "Living in Tents, and by the Rules, Under a Bridge" http://bit.ly/wmiGv (7/30) |
| #1058: | "Old" is the state of being so trapped in your past emotional investments that you can no longer significantly change. |
| #1059: | The right of privacy does not extend after death. |
| #1060: | You may be able to control your public image while alive, but when you die the mask will fall and you'll be seen for who you really were. |
| #1061: | If you drive at night, you often have to take it on faith that there's a road in front of you. |
| #1062: | I know this is an old grudge, but wasn't it Ralph Nader who gave us George Bush? |
| #1063: | Just because you're rich in money doesn't mean you're rich in time, and it's the time that will run out first. |
| #1064: | "Taste Inflation: Why We Can Never Have Enough" http://bit.ly/Dlxek (Kilroy Cafe #36, April 09) |
| #1065: | My new blog entry: "The Prison of Home Ownership" http://bit.ly/957DZ (Homeless by Choice) |
| #1066: | The American Dream is supposedly home ownership, but people don't realize when they enter the dream how quickly it can turn to a nightmare. |
| #1067: | The key asset in life, you may discover too late, is not money but freedom. - #existentialism |
| #1068: | What space do you really need to live in? The optimum of economy is an 8 by 8-foot box, like an officer's cabin in a Navy ship. |
| #1069: | The hell of home ownership is not just the burden of paying for it, but all the crap that collects in that extra space. |
| #1070: | This is all one really needs in life: an 8x8-foot box. PHOTO: http://bit.ly/VVajT (I could do without the roommate, though.) |
| #1071: | I have now arranged my past tweets in a convenient paged archive: http://kilroycafe.com/twitter/ |
| #1072: | "If I Only Had a Brain" - the lyrics: http://bit.ly/16sk6h (from "The Wizard of Oz") "I could while away the hours..." |
| #1073: | When I heard Bill Clinton helped free two journalists from N. Korea, I thought, "He must have had some contact with the State Dept."... Duh! |
| #1074: | Images from "The Wizard of Oz": http://bit.ly/1GIbZs - We're off to see the Wizard!... |
| #1075: | Breaking news from The Onion: "Sanyo Praying Area Man Doesn't Send In Rebate Form" http://bit.ly/1CvcVR |
| #1076: | All German tourists feel they must visit Death Valley -- in the summer! Some of them die, but Germany keeps making more. |
| #1077: | Ever gone into a public toilet stall to find many layers of toilet paper laid on the seat? That's the work of an obsessive-compulsive. |
| #1078: | Law is written by image-conscious legislators elected by dim-witted voters to address the public hysteria of the moment. |
| #1079: | My new photos from Bear Flats, an abandoned roadhouse along the Alaska Highway in the Yukon: http://bit.ly/1DU0Pq |
| #1080: | If you flash at fireflies with a penlight, you can sometimes get them to flash back (and totally screw up their love life). |
| #1081: | War is good for the economy! Without so many personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan, unemployment would be far worse. Thank you, George Bush! |
| #1082: | People can become so used to Misery that they invite it back into their home as soon as it leaves. |
| #1083: | Once you escape from one prison, the greatest danger is that you rapidly seek out another. |
| #1084: | My new photos from "Freedom Tour 2009" http://bit.ly/16Ej8W - Inspiring America in a right wing Love Bus. |
| #1085: | The only thing as terrifying as Republicans controlling government is Democrats controlling it. Most "bold initiatives" lead to deep shit. |
| #1086: | In the dollar store business, there's a fine line between a Dollar Tree and idolatry. |
| #1087: | The "health care crisis" is ultimately unsolvable because when someone is dying there is no limit to the amount that can be spent on them. |
| #1088: | Campbell's Law of Storage: Ones possessions will expand to fill whatever storage space is available. New blog entry: http://bit.ly/N5S3C |
| #1089: | Intelligence or stupidity is almost always a matter of controlling or not controlling your emotions. |
| #1090: | Intelligence is not a talent but a choice. |
| #1091: | Petrified Forest National Park: the most boring in the nation. You go there to see... PETRIFIED WOOD. |
| #1092: | Governments make incompetent parents because they are unable to compromise. They would kill a child with protection. |
| #1093: | Often, the most dangerous gift you can give someone is good fortune. It can disrupt their equilibrium and set the stage for disaster. |
| #1094: | Once people's basic needs have been met, they start inventing new needs, which don't usually do anything for them except killing time. |
| #1095: | When you learn about some people's frivolous hobbies, you want to scream at them: "IS THIS ALL YOU WANT TO DO WITH YOUR LIFE?!" - #existentialism |
| #1096: | It's another old grudge, but were Hiroshima and Nagasaki really necessary? Talk about a Holocaust! |
| #1097: | One of the cruelest forms of child abuse is making someone a child star. It virtually guarantees drug abuse and a screwed up self-image. |
| #1098: | Freedom is never given. It is strategically won. |
| #1099: | I've just released a new Thing You Don't Need: HAND SANITIZERS: http://bit.ly/TYlqQ - You don't want a flabby immune system do you? |
| #1100: | There are no miracles in life, only trade-offs. - #existentialism |