People should not fear their governments; governments should fear their people.
"And since I know you're going to name your first child Liam after me, I'd rather you name it...umm...Hercules Rockefeller."
"What if it's a girl?"
"So what if it's a girl? Hercules Rockefeller is unisex, man."
Ah, Liam. Apparently we will hang out this summer some time. MUCH AWESOMENESS WILL BE HAD. Also, apparently my first child is going to be named Hercules Rockefeller. Especially if it's a girl. I mean, would you fuck with a girl named Hercules Rockefeller? I wouldn't fuck with a girl named Hercules Rockefeller.
Also, I saw V for Vendetta last night. Fuggin' FANTASTIC. I realise that it's all about 1984 and fascist England and all that jazz, but the parallels...I saw the TV program by Prothero and saw Bill O'Reilly, man, it was some trippy shit. I think the writing was actually better than the action, too. A question to the intarweb: The quote used in the movie, the one in my title, is something I'd swear I'd heard before, but wiki purports that it is a paraphrase of a Thomas Jefferson quote. It does sound like something out of that era (last night Jeff and I were theorizing that it was Locke or Tocqueville), but I can't find a source for it. Am I tripping? Is it original? I would suffer a forfeit to know.
To close, a quote:
"Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."
Peace-
Mike
"What if it's a girl?"
"So what if it's a girl? Hercules Rockefeller is unisex, man."
Ah, Liam. Apparently we will hang out this summer some time. MUCH AWESOMENESS WILL BE HAD. Also, apparently my first child is going to be named Hercules Rockefeller. Especially if it's a girl. I mean, would you fuck with a girl named Hercules Rockefeller? I wouldn't fuck with a girl named Hercules Rockefeller.
Also, I saw V for Vendetta last night. Fuggin' FANTASTIC. I realise that it's all about 1984 and fascist England and all that jazz, but the parallels...I saw the TV program by Prothero and saw Bill O'Reilly, man, it was some trippy shit. I think the writing was actually better than the action, too. A question to the intarweb: The quote used in the movie, the one in my title, is something I'd swear I'd heard before, but wiki purports that it is a paraphrase of a Thomas Jefferson quote. It does sound like something out of that era (last night Jeff and I were theorizing that it was Locke or Tocqueville), but I can't find a source for it. Am I tripping? Is it original? I would suffer a forfeit to know.
To close, a quote:
"Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."
Peace-
Mike