#1801: | The best gauge of artistic maturity is a grasp of irony. |
#1802: | The habits of personality cannot be changed by words or education, only by enforcement and engagement. |
#1803: | Falling in love with someone is the best guarantee that you won't be able to change them. |
#1804: | To have influence over someone's personality, you have to retain negotiating power -- that is, the ability and willingness to say "no". |
#1805: | Love is possible, but there will always be limits on how deeply you can dive into it. Go too deep and you'll drown! |
#1806: | Friend me for all my new photos & essays: http://www.facebook.com/KilroyCafe or "fan" me for the Cliff Notes version: http://bit.ly/1jBsF6 |
#1807: | "The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have." -John Rawls via @linkibol |
#1808: | Of course you made the right choice... if you block out news of every other choice! That's the essence of commitment. And censorship. |
#1809: | Mystery cocoons discovered at St. Louis shopping mall. Photo album of my investigation: http://bit.ly/5Yp41G - I conduct an "alien autopsy". |
#1810: | "Lost Cat: Reward" in Jackson, Wyoming. Photo: http://bit.ly/7XyXa6 - I think I know what happened to little Fluffy! |
#1811: | The best sign of a peak in the gold market is people on TV urging viewers to buy it. (i.e. Sell now!) |
#1812: | The US economy lost virtually no jobs in November! This suggests the overall economy is on the mend (even if it sucks where you are). |
#1813: | Ah, the Christmas spirit! Yuletide traditions with family & friends! Gifts under the tree!... This is what I'm trying desperately to avoid. |
#1814: | I have just declared the recession over. My essay: http://bit.ly/7chrPf |
#1815: | "Threshhold of intervention" is the point at which you choose to use your resources to address someone else's problems. It must be high! |
#1816: | Revolution, in most of human history, is a bloody battle to replace one form of oppression with another. |
#1817: | What, there are moneychangers in the temple? I thought they WERE the temple! |
#1818: | I'm gettin nuthin for Christmas/Mommy and Daddy are mad/I'm gettin nuthin for Christmas/Cuz I rejected the consumer-driven Christmas model! |
#1819: | Night on the Hoth ice planet: Wyoming in a nutshell. |
#1820: | Hey, if you like my tweets, Retweet and/or Favorite the best ones so others catch on! |
#1821: | Is @KilroyCafe too much for you? Try @KilroyLite - Only two tweets a day! Tastes Great! Less Filling! |
#1822: | NY Times: "For Judges on Facebook, Friendship Has Limits" http://bit.ly/824edv - Some people shouldn't be Friends! |
#1823: | I find it deeply offensive that water should take a solid form. If that's its attitude, then I don't care to precipitate. |
#1824: | In the spirit of the season, here is my "Wal-Mart Christmas Carol" http://bit.ly/walmartxmas - Sung to the tune of "Silver Bells" |
#1825: | New photo album: "Somewhere in Wyoming" http://bit.ly/4JHDGn |
#1826: | Romance creates a mythology around the one you love. The delusion has to collapse sooner or later. |
#1827: | The habits of personality cannot be changed by words or education, only by enforcement. |
#1828: | Dateline: Wal-Mart, Salt Lake City. I'm completing a routine early morning patrol. Restrooms clean. Prices low. My work here is done. |
#1829: | It's the law in Utah: At least one family member must be named "Joshua". |
#1830: | Throughout America, seagulls are the new pigeons. You now find them miles from any coastline, in bizarre places like Denver. |
#1831: | Yukon Territory, July 2009: One of my favorite photos of all time: http://bit.ly/8qe0yW |
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#1833: | The young person's excuse: "I've got plenty of time. I'll do it later." The old person's excuse: "It's too late for me. I can't change now." |
#1834: | My new philosophy essay: "The Limits of Charity" http://bit.ly/4XPKPx - Giving selflessly to others isn't the issue. |
#1835: | Q: What is an early morning meal of mustard, ketchup, relish, mayonaise, salt and pepper? A: A condimental breakfast. |
#1836: | DO NOT EAT THE FRESHNESS PAK. (In fact, best not to eat the product the Freshness Pak came with.) |
#1837: | The one charity that undeniably improves the world: Planned Parenthood. |
#1838: | Any forbidden fruit becomes bland and uninteresting as soon as you have easy access to it. |
#1839: | DO NOT EAT THE FRESHNESS PAK. (In fact, best not to eat the alleged food product the Freshness Pak came with.) |
#1840: | Global warming is real, but that doesn't mean governments have the power to stop it. The damage has already been done! |
#1841: | The trauma of home foreclosure is not the loss of the house itself but disposal of the accumulated possessions and obligations within it. |
#1842: | I have dedicated this tweet to all the noble causes of the world, because that's a heck of a lot easier than actually doing something. |
#1843: | I want to take this opportunity to express my facile and irrelevant support for our brave military men and women stationed overseas. |
#1844: | The adjustments forced by the Great Recession: lower wages, lower expectations, more frugality, no more free money. |
#1845: | Economic crises are unfortunate but necessary. Without them, no one would change. |
#1846: | You killed that tree! You didn't do it personally, but it died for you. Is that the kind of Christmas you practice -- a Christmas of DEATH?! |
#1847: | The ancient ways, the old traditions, the sacred beliefs of the elders -- you have to believe in them if you are already invested in them. |
#1848: | What's the meaning of life? There doesn't have to be one. You just deal with the problems in front of you! |
#1849: | Good night my little minions! Sleep tight! Tomorrow we rule the world -- and get rid of that pesky James Bond! |
#1850: | "There should be tax breaks for couples with no children. Think of the carbon saved by not bringing new people into existence!"@SamPayne1701 |
#1851: | Dogs are programmed to follow the Alpha animal, but if you give them too much leash they become the Alpha animal. Same with children! |
#1852: | In Florida, there's a fine line between amenity and a manatee! |
#1853: | Many tragedies are blessings in disguise because they force us to make hard decisions we couldn't face otherwise. |
#1854: | Only 10 days left 'til the end of Christmas music! |
#1855: | "Most people are hamsters in a cage, running on a wheel, whose idea of 'change' is a bigger cage and a bigger wheel." MFRT @RedStarFilm |
#1856: | Many catastrophes are blessings in disguise because they force us to make hard decisions we couldn't face otherwise. |
#1857: | [Duplicate tweet deleted.] |
#1858: | Nothing gets you thinking clearly like the threat of impending death. |
#1859: | Special effects be damned! What drives a movie is the characters and what happens to them. The rest is forgotten quickly. |
#1860: | If the Twinkie had been around for 5000 years, people would discern fine gradations in it, like wine and cheese. Alas, it's still junk food. |
#1861: | Nothing gets you thinking clearly like the threat of impending catastrophe. |
#1862: | There's no accounting for sexual chemistry. What is erotic to one person may seem stupid and incredibly tedious to someone else. |
#1863: | The main reason couples have children is because their relationship has hit a dead end and isn't sustainable otherwise. |
#1864: | The bonding ceremony was efficient. The joined couple accepted their fate with stoicism. Musicians were paid. Affidavits were prepared. |
#1865: | If you have experienced misery all your life and it happens to go away, you will create new misery someplace else. |
#1866: | If you have been miserable all your life and the misery goes away, you will create it anew someplace else. |
#1867: | If you have been miserable all your life and the misery goes away, you will probably create it anew someplace else. |
#1868: | I H8 NY! U will 2 when U C the wthr they hv w8ing 4 U! |
#1869: | Although it's been said many times, many ways, Merry SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY! It's beginning to look a lot like PLEASE MAKE IT STOP! |
#1870: | All good fiction involves some form of magic. Things will happen that are impossible in real life, but the resolution must be real. |
#1871: | Avatar: a 3-hour transformation of wonder into tedium. |
#1872: | Avatar: How can you spend $300 million on a movie and nothing on the writing? Cameron wrote it himself, and Cameron is a dick. |
#1873: | Avatar: At least the shapely Na'Vi women have the decency to not go topless, in deference to our human sensitivities. |
#1874: | Are We Alone?: the most boring and irrelevant question in the world! |
#1875: | Nearly all advertising involves an element of fraud. If it isn't lying to you explicitly, it is doing it by implication. |
#1876: | In the battle for respect from your elders, you're probably never going to win, so forget about it. Just do what's right for you! |
#1877: | [Duplicate tweet deleted.] |
#1878: | It is not your civic duty to vote if you don't know the candidates and can't make an informed choice. |
#1879: | [Duplicate tweet deleted.] |
#1880: | Movie special effects have no effect on me. All I care about is the story. |
#1881: | Some people are heat sinks: You pour energy into them and get nothing in return. This is a bad place for a relationship! |
#1882: | "I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus..." - This is not our concern. We are not our parents' keeper! |
#1883: | Whenever someone makes a fool of himself, his first inclination is to blame you for whatever mistake he made. |
#1884: | The greatest atrocity of British English is the use of plural for collective nouns. "The team are" etc. The team is a body, acting as one! |
#1885: | Experts in any field often miss the forest for the trees. They get so caught up in details that they lose touch with the big picture. |
#1886: | You can raise a child hoping to mold him in your own image. It usually turns out, though, that the kid has his own plans. |
#1887: | Choosing the right path is only part of the journey. The other part is actually traveling the path you have chosen. |
#1888: | My new philosophy essay: "The Burden of Choice: More Options Aren't Necessarily a Good Thing." http://bit.ly/8DTu3e (Kilroy Cafe #60) |
#1889: | All of us are suffering from the basic trauma that our parents were delusional at the time they had us and were ill-prepared for the task. |
#1890: | You may say I'm a dreamer, but I haven't given up hope of the Beatles getting back together. There will be a software package. |
#1891: | Trapped in the dual prison of real estate and children. When things go bad, there can be noplace more harrowing! |
#1892: | 20th Century History: Woodward & Bernstein were a composer/songwriter team who produced such classics as West Side Story and Sound of Music. |
#1893: | [Duplicate tweet deleted.] |
#1894: | The most pervasive form of censorship is that of a married person defending their spouse. The facade collapses just prior to divorce. |
#1895: | My new Homeless by Choice blog entry: "How to Keep Warm" http://bit.ly/5LtnKD - Brrrrr! |
#1896: | I'm seeing subliminal messages and secret instructions on the Captcha words when I post a link to Facebook. Pray they don't tell me to kill! |
#1897: | A fallacy: "If my parents hadn't made the lifestyle choices they did I wouldn't be here today, so those choices are right for me, too." |
#1898: | This Mcdonalds McRib sandwich makes me Mcsick to my Mcstomach. It's another mystery Mcmeat Mcproduct I'll Mcavoid in the Mcfuture. |
#1899: | Those who claim to love snow do so only because they can afford a resource-intensive, fossil-fueled cocoon to shield themselves from it. |
#1900: | The majority of people will use their excess resources to reinforce repetitive behavior and avoid any real change or accomplishment. |