rebel with cause

give me a sign, originally uploaded by McBeth.

If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.

-- Henry Rollins

the lookout

carmel corn, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

-- Mae West

commitment

Grandpa's ring , originally uploaded by McBeth.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

-- Martin Luther

just sit down

ring of flowers, originally uploaded by McBeth.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

-- Ernest Hemingway

pigs, primarily

pigs, primarily, originally uploaded by McBeth.

The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.

-- George Bush, Sr.

in dignity

memorial, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

-- Luigi Pierandello

eventually

'49 desoto, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these.

-- Robert H. Stoddard

waiting for what's next

woman at bus stop, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

-- Ovid

holiday onslaught

merry christmas, retail style, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

-- David Barry

uno dos tres

analogous, originally uploaded by McBeth.

We can comprehend every single life phenomenon, as if the past, the present, and the future together with a superordinate, guiding idea were present in it in traces.

-- Alfred Adler

dig your well

badger liquor shop, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Thatch your roof before rainy weather; dig your well before you become parched with thirst.

-- Chinese Proverb

streeting

blue cap @ yellow jersey, originally uploaded by McBeth.

If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker, and you were walking down a sidewalk, and he fell, that would be completely unacceptable...

-- Mitch Hedberg

fabulous yellow

once we went to a mall, originally uploaded by McBeth.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"

-- Jack Kerouac

immoovable

she says she wants a word with you, originally uploaded by McBeth.

To my mind, the only possible pet is a cow. Cows love you. . . . They will listen to your problems and never ask a thing in return. They will be your friends forever. And when you get tired of them, you can kill and eat them. Perfect.

-- Bill Bryson

walkabout

walking with the girls at Indian Lake, originally uploaded by McBeth.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

-- Buddha

where'd it go?

surprise part II: here i am, originally uploaded by McBeth.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

-- Robin Williams

four parts

four shots, originally uploaded by McBeth.

BRANDY, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the- grave and four parts clarified Satan. Dose, a headful all the time. Brandy is said by Dr. Johnson to be the drink of heroes. Only a hero will venture to drink it.

-- Ambrose Bierce

spectral evidence

holy wisdom monastary, originally uploaded by McBeth.

We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

-- Susan Sontag

seasonal shades

autumn in wisconsin, originally uploaded by McBeth.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

-- Adlai E. Stevenson

that new lens smell

new eyes, originally uploaded by McBeth.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

-- e.e. cummings