The Diogenes Club
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Check Out Jim Gill's improvi Site
Our fellow creative fellow and Morty the Blog regular Jim Gill has devised an intriguing brainstorming tool:
improvi
Jim says: "A whimsical creativity app that emulates your inner world"
I'm going to drive it around the block a few times when I get the chance.
improvi
Jim says: "A whimsical creativity app that emulates your inner world"
I'm going to drive it around the block a few times when I get the chance.
Favorite Movie Quotes: The Departed
"I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me."
Favorite Movie Quotes: De-Lovely
"What is discretion but dishonesty dressed up in a little good breeding?"
Favorite Movie Quotes: Defending Your Life
"When you use more than 5 per cent of your brain you don't want to be on Earth, believe me. Not that your takeout places aren't lovely but there are many more exciting destinations for smarter people. Now being from Earth as you are and using as little of your brain as you do, your life has pretty much been devoted to dealing with fear."
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Favorite Movie Quotes: Death Becomes Her
"We're gathered here today to honor the passing of a man of courage and of vision. Now, Dr. Ernest Menville always that felt life begins at 50. And since we know so little of Ernest before that age, perhaps in his case, it's really true. Because it wasn't until 50 he met his lovely wife, Claire, that he had two sons and four daughters, and then like a, like a biblical patriarch began to spread his message of hope to his adopted children all around the world. A brilliant academic as well as a rugged outdoorsman, Dr. Menville pursued with vigor a variety of pursuits not just to attain some personal ambition but to enhance the world for us and make it a better place than he found it. Oh, and that he did. The Menville Marriage Counseling Clinic, the Menville Center for the Study of Women, and of course, Ernest's AA chapter will carry on long after his death ... was for him a delightful adventure. Who among us never knew Ernest the prankster? Hmm? Ernest the storyteller? We've all heard his tall tales about the living dead in Beverly Hills."
[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 43]
Favorite Movie Quotes: Dark Passage
"You know, it's wonderful when guys like you lose out. Makes guys like me think maybe we got a chance in this world."
[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 19]
Favorite Movie Quotes: Dances With Wolves
"I was just thinking that of all the trails in this life there is one that matters most. It is the trail of a true human being."
[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 17]
Monday, March 5, 2012
Favorite Movie Quotes: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
"The things we touch have no permanence. My master would say, 'There is nothing we can hold onto in this world. Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.'"
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Morty Comix # 2310
Placed inside a free copy of The Olympian for use by denizens of a place in Tumwater, Washington where any citizen can enter and sample the gastronomical wares of students of the culinary arts.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
Favorite Movie Quotes: Cool Hand Luke
"Them clothes got laundry numbers on them. You remember your number and always wear the ones that has your number. Any man forgets his number spends a night in the box. These here spoons you keep with you. Any man loses his spoon spends a night in the box. There's no playing grab-ass or fighting in the building. You got a grudge against another man, you fight him Saturday afternoon. Any man playing grab-ass or fighting in the building spends a night in the box. First bell's at five minutes of eight when you will get in your bunk. Last bell is at eight. Any man not in his bunk at eight spends the night in the box. There is no smoking in the prone position in bed. To smoke you must have both legs over the side of your bunk. Any man caught smoking in the prone position in bed spends a night in the box. You get two sheets. Every Saturday, you put the clean sheet on the top, the top sheet on the bottom and the bottom sheet you turn in to the laundry boy. Any man turns in the wrong sheet spends a night in the box. No one'll sit in the bunks with dirty pants on. Any man with dirty pants on sitting on the bunks spends a night in the box. Any man don't bring back his empty pop bottle spends a night in the box. Any man loud talking spends a night in the box. You got questions, you come to me. I'm Carl, the floor walker. I'm responsible for order in here. Any man don't keep order spends a night in-- "
Phone photo 1221
I apologize for the extremely bad phone photo but it can still act as a platform to a most amazing story. This is the lobby of the Monticello Hotel in Longview, Washington. This place has murals tucked up on the wall against the ceiling by Joe Knowles, one of the most interesting and eccentric artists in the history of Washington State, which is saying a lot. Check out my profile of Joe on OlyBlog.
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