I think I’m going to take a couple day Sabbatical, maybe I’ll maintain this post for spare thoughts. Meanwhile, this guy is actually on vacation. I’ve posted his blog before. I know some people think he’s over-the-top, but I think he’s hilarious. And I don’t care what some people think. You shouldn’t either.
Addendum 1:
If I have a kid I’m naming him Theo. Maybe I’ll name a girl Theo too, but I guess I could deal with Cleo. Short for Theodore and Cleopatra. But I think only Cleopatra would make the birth certificate, Theo would just be plain Theo.
Addendum 2:
A few years ago, I noticed that I don’t sleep until my feet get warm. Growing up in an ice box with a circulatory problem to my extremities, this may explain the entirety of the insomnia from my youth. Once my feet warm up, it’s a rapid process. Thoughts fade from sensible to absurd in a matter of seconds. Eventually I think to myself, “uhhh, that doesn’t make any sense” and then I’m asleep. Last night I progressed from a merit based scoring criteria for some system I was modeling into sowing pockets into pants. This was a A->B->C sort of procedure. Not sure what sowing pockets into the sides of pants has to do with anything.
Addendum 3:
Often, the sun does rise. Piercing the gap between the horizon and a carpet of clouds, irradiating the textured contours with deep purples, malevolent reds, fiery oranges, brilliant yellows and finally a peaceful peach. A sunrise with no clouds is pretty banal, yes?
Addendum 4:
As a part of my “start doing stuff you don’t normally do” initiative, I’ve picked up a few new bands. I like the way Porcupine Tree sounds, but I have to say, the lyrics are absymal.
“Never stop the car on a drive in the dark
Never look for the truth in your mother’s eyes
Never trust the sound of rain upon a river rushing through your ears
Arriving somewhere but not here”
Uhhh…herrr-huh?
Addendum 5:
I want to see Hanes’ marketing contract with Michael Jordan. “Ok, we’ll give you 8 million dollars a year, but we will put you in ambiguously gay situations in every single commercial.” Do you think they he and Kevin Bacon broke up? I thought they had a lot of chemistry. Cuba Gooding Jr over Kevin Bacon? I don’t know, I’m torn.
Words 
I think that guy is safely UNDER the top. I nod off every time I click through to his site.
You would name your daughter after the soulless seductress-witch Cleopatra? I’m proud of you.
This way I could have faternal twins and name them Theo and Cleo. They’d nominate me for the lame hall of fame. Which, unsurprisingly, rhymes.
I’m actually not a big fan of Cleopatra. Augustan Rome is a long standing interest of mine (the old “aloof and austere amid the grace and smooth perfidy of society” was a quote from a biography on Livia, Augustus’s sinister wife, describing Augustus’s successor Tiberius) and Cleopatra was a stain on the entire time period. Still, she used what she had to get what she needed for her people, which is…admirable. Not a path I’d want my daughter to follow I suppose. Theo will have to keep her in line.
Yeah, Antony’s stateside love interest resonates more with me anyway. What’s her name again? Oh yeah, Atia. “Atia of the Julii, I call for justice!” I need to rewatch that entire series.
What’s with all the sunrise/set analogies lately? Did you & Lara swallow identically-laced communion wafers or something?
Every day, in microcosm, death and life. Despair and hope. Dark and light.
Every year, in microcosm, birth and death. Cold and warmth and cold.
Every person, in microcosm, birth and death. Helplessness and usefulness and helplessness.
OK, maybe not every person with the usefulness.
In any case, all of creation is one all encompassingly simple metaphor.
where are you looking for new music? the local pre-K?
Theo is my sister’s married last name. Just so you know.
So if she got divorced, and I re-married her but she kept the name (for the kids, you know), then we could have a kid named Theo Theo. Or Theo Furst-Theo, Theo Theo-Furst. Imagine ordering pizza!
Or, alternatively, she could just name her kid with that guy (her husband) Theo. That way I wouldn’t have to marry her. But we could be brother and sister, wouldn’t that be swell!
You wouldn’t want your daughter to use what she had to get what she needed for her people? There is something wrong with that? Sounds kind of noble to me. Queen Esther is like the biggest heroine of the Jews for using what she had to get what she needed for her people. I mean what better to use it for? Shoes? A time-share in Crete? I don’t get that.
And I think if one of my daughters got so out of line that she became pharaoh, I would not send my son to reel her in.
I don’t have a people. I’m a WASP, remember? We have no people. We are the default.