Grateful Dead

When a man carries a gun all the time, the respect he thinks he's getting might really be fear. So I don't carry a gun because I don't want the people of Mayberry to fear a gun. I'd rather they respect me. RIP Andy Griffith...

Was listening to 'On the Beach' the other day and heard the famous lyric from Ambulance Blues And there ain't nothin' like a friend Who can tell you you're just pissin' in the wind. How true that is!

"Everyone laughs and cries in the same language." -Unknown

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." -John Keats

'Coherence in contradiction expresses the force of a desire.' –Jacques Derrida, Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences

I have a ticket stub from a New Haven CT show, 11/28/78. This show is not listed in the archive on Dead.net or in my copy of Dead Base Jr. The ticket is ripped in half so the show did go on, I am not hallucinating! (As has happened back in the day!)The show was put on by John Scher and WPLR. Can someone please tell me why this show seems to have disappeared into the blue? What a long strange trip it has been and it continues to get stranger all the time. Rock on.

"Finish each day and be done with it. You havedone what you could. Some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I mean, after all; you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean it's a sort of bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So, I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we can make it. You get me?" -Philip K. Dick, preamble to "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch"

..that's a beauty. Now here is something much more frivolous 'When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you'. Nora Ephron (RIP)

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"We could take a walk. The pier's longer than it seems." ~ Avett Bros

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

These two go together, I think: "Every child begins the world again." —Walden, Henry David Thoreau "Culture is not your friend." —Terence McKenna

' Live fast....keep going'

'If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning’ Catherine Aird

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits" Albert Einstein Mary, as a person who suffered from strong depression for years (much happier now), you're quote several pages back from william gibson has me laughing and laughing. Never thought of it that way. Thanks!

"fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity" George Carlin rip georgey, rip

"My peace I give unto you...Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid" John 14:27 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Let peace abound inside your mind... Like a waterfall washing away the things you house that could never be~ peace and love. Effort needed and a good teacher. But um yeah let's party! ---------------------------------------(-----@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. I was just reading an Antonin Scalia justification for the Citizens United decision when this one popped into my head. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was... (courtesy David Byrne)

i thought this would fit better under "words to live by" ; it's beautiful. SLOW DANCE have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round? listened to the rain slapping on the ground? ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight? or gazed at the sun into the fading night? you better slow down don't dance so fast time is short the music won't last do you run through each day on the fly? when you ask how are you do you hear the reply? when the day is done do you lie in your bed with the next hundred chores running through your head? you better slow down don't dance so fast time is short the music won' last ever told your child we'll do it tomorrow and in your haste not see his sorrow? let a good frienship die cause you never had time to call and say hi? you better slow down don't dance so fast time is short the music won't last when you run so fast to get somewhere you miss half the fun of getting there when you worry and hurry through your day it's like an unopened gift thrown away. life is not a race do take it slower hear the music before the song is over Author unknown

'A singleminded tenacity that is not compromised by public opinion is an essential prerequisite of the elevation of the human(e) spirit by Art.' Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.

"If the will knows not what to will,it will not be able to will." -Lao-Tze

"Ladies and Gentlemen...The Grateful Dead." -Bill Graham

"it helps to remember that all the bad headlines and all the good headlines are made from the same twenty-six letters" Sy Safransky founder, editor and publisher of The Sun magazine

"War Is the health of the State." —Randolph Bourne

"May your mind forever sparklelike a star, Your heart remain pure as newfallen snow, And your spirit forever sense the wonderment of a child." -Mary Summer Rain

The light residing in sun, moon, and fire,through which the entire universe is illuminated, is my light." -Krishna

"Humor characterizes consciousness. For me, life would be so empty without humor—it would be unbearable, it would be like life without music." —Jerry Garcia (From a 1995 interview)

"The State thus becomes an instrument by which the power of the whole herd is wielded for the benefit of a class. The rulers soon learn to capitalize the reverence which the State produces in the majority, and turn it into a general resistance toward a lessening of their privileges. The sanctity of the State becomes identified with the sanctity of the ruling class..." Thanks for the link, Mike Edwards

"May Father Sky light all your trails,And may Earth Mother keep them straight." -Mary Summer Rain

In speaking about creativity, E. L. Doctorow said... "It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

"Judge a man by hisquestions rather than by his answers." -Voltaire

SUSTAIN SHOCK AND CARRY THE CHARGE (((+))) GO SEE LIVE MUSIC I LOVE YOU ALL THANK YOU FOREVER IT'S EVER-LASTING, XO!

“Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design.” ― Philip K. Dick

“Grief reunites you with what you've lost. It's a merging; you go with the loved thing or person that's going away. You follow it a far as you can go. But finally,the grief goes away and you phase back into the world. Without him. And you can accept that. What the hell choice is there? You cry, you continue to cry, because you don't ever completely come back from where you went with him -- a fragment broken off your pulsing, pumping heart is there still. A cut that never heals. And if, when it happens to you over and over again in life, too much of your heart does finally go away, then you can't feel grief any more. And then you yourself are ready to die. You'll walk up the inclined ladder and someone else will remain behind grieving for you.” ― Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

"Any activity becomes creative whenthe doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better." -John Updike

"Creativity requires the courageto let go of certainties." -Erich Fromm

"I first met Rolling Thunder, a medicine man who livesin Nevada, in 1970 and have since observed him conduct several healing sessions and consultations. Once I listened to him give instructions to a client who had come for dream interpretation. Instead of telling the client what the dream meant, Rolling Thunder asked the client to imagine himself as each of the characters in the dream so that he would be able to interpret the dream himself. He gave him the tools rather than the answers." -Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.

"Creativity comes from trust.Trust your instincts." -Rita Mae Brown

"He who learns must suffer."—Aeschylus

'Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity.' - Austin Osman Spare

"It is the mark of an educated mind to beable to entertain a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle

No-no, no, no-no, no-no-no-noNo, no-no, no, no, no-no, no-no, no-no No-no-no-no, no-no, no, no-no, no Human Beinz version of the Isley's song "Nobody But Me." Or the motto of the GOP in Congress. Sorry, this has been banging around in my head this morning, and I couldn't resist...living in a swing state during a hotly-contested Presidential election cycle, being bombarded with media messages -- it has pushed me over the edge, I think.

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx

"Pain is weakness leaving the body." -The Marines