Jun
8th
Wed
8th
Its all about me.
May
30th
Mon
30th
i advise college. I dont know anyone that went to college and sucked more.
— R.A. Rickard (advice i just gave a new high school grad)
May
26th
Thu
26th
There are a lot of things I’m going to tell you about my friend Ben, but this picture might do most of the heavy lifting…
May
2nd
Mon
2nd
I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.
— Mark Twain
Mar
15th
Tue
15th
There he goes. One of God’s own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
— Raoul Duke
Feb
28th
Mon
28th
Brothels in Chile
Not saying i dont like who i am. I love me. But if i had the power, i would have been a Kennedy - Newly released 1961 FBI memo claims Ted Kennedy sought to rent brothel in Chile.
Feb
25th
Fri
25th
yep, im there - Seattle type1 smug. (but this time im visiting Seattle so i dont feel so bad about it)
Feb
14th
Mon
14th
I hope all you enjoy your pagan holiday.
Drunk & naked Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia (the first Valentine’s day) by sacrificing a goat and whipping women with the hides.
This also included a matchmaking lottery. Men drew the names of women from a large jar. The lucky lady would then ‘couple-up’ with the man who drew her name for the duration of the festival. If the match worked out well it may last a bit longer.
So why was this cool pagan date changed to a nice day for those in love? The answer is the same for any major holiday - because people died. Claudius II of Roam executed two men. Both of them were named Valentine (one or both a Catholic priest). Both were executed on Feb 14th (but in different years). A couple hundred years later the Catholic Church supported the day and renamed it Saint Valentine’s Day. They did however take out the pagan rituals and the cool jar. This would have all ended as a neat little martyr holiday for the church, but some poet named Chaucer had to go and write St. Valentine’s Day into some romantic lame day for lovers. Not even the church could take all the sappy lovie-dovie that the day turned into, so they took it off the holy calendar of saints in 1969.
Now, Hallmark makes a good portion of their profit from Valentine’s day. You see, they own the legal rights to ‘love’, so the only way you can buy ‘love’ is from Hallmark. (its a fact, look it up or ask Lisa S.)
And no, this tirade did not come from my bitterness that my wife is on call today - all day! grrr!
Feb
12th
Sat
12th
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
— Abraham Lincoln
Feb
3rd
Thu
3rd
Good afternoon Internet. Im Rob Rickard, and your not. Here is todays news …
Jan
25th
Tue
25th
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
— Samuel Beckett writes as cool as he looks. Every time i read this, i like it more and more. It motivates me. It inspires me. It makes me fearless to ‘fail better’.
Jan
17th
Mon
17th
No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don’t want to die to get there. (Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address)
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jan
16th
Sun
16th
If i owned a drinking establishment this sign would be required.
Jan
2nd
Sun
2nd
Client: “I’m afraid I can’t afford the monthly figure at the moment.”
Me: “Oh no - that’s hourly.”
Client: ”I could get a stripper for that!”
Me: ”If she’s as good with Photoshop as I am, then she is the better deal.”
(via merlin)
