Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Blog Post #1- Life and Times of ME


"The only downside of my mother’s working was that it put a little pressure on her with regard to running the home and particularly with regard to dinner, which frankly was not her strong suit anyway. My mother always ran late and was dangerously forgetful into the bargain. You soon learned to stand aside about ten to six every evening, for it was then that she would fly in the back door, throw something in the oven, and disappear into some other quarter of the house to embark on the thousand other household tasks that greeted her each evening. In consequence she nearly always forgot about dinner until a point slightly beyond way too late. As a rule you knew it was time to eat when you could hear baked potatoes exploding in the oven."

-Bill Bryson, Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid


"Sometimes you just gotta throw a Red Shell and run"

-William D. Goodloe, in reference to Super Smash Bros. Melee


"We got no troubles, life is the bubbles, under the sea."

-Sebastian, The Little Mermaid

Friday, January 11, 2008

Blog Post #2- Feeling Oedipus

After reading Oedipus Rex, i don't really get an optimistic or pessimistic feeling. i have more of a curiousity about fate and free will. Do we have any realy choices in life? Or has it all been layed out for us? I like to think that we make our own path and determine the outcome of every situation as it occurs, but the only problem is, i have no real reason to not believe in fate. Why wouldn't we all just be on a set track from birth? When i walked away from Oedipus Rex, more than anything i got a feeling of frustration from questions like these. The egg or the chicken? Nature or nurture? Fate or free will? I dont know.