The Fred Winston Poltroon

2010-05-21T14:38:00.000-07:00

Salad daze

Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

2010-05-19T13:08:00.000-07:00

Surprise

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ~Henry David Thoreau, 1854

2010-05-07T07:51:00.000-07:00

Small wonder

It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ~James Douglas

2010-03-31T06:52:00.000-07:00

Caliente
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! ~John Muir

2010-03-11T11:39:00.000-08:00

Cabo 2010

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

2010-02-10T13:38:00.000-08:00

Patiently

I prefer winter, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show. ~Andrew Wyeth

2010-02-02T13:49:00.000-08:00

Want fries?

Oil and potatoes both grow underground so french fries may have eventually produced themselves, had they not been invented. ~A.J. Esther

Byron's Hot Dog stand received national honors when their french fries were voted the best in the entire country by GQ magazine.

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. ~Luciano Pavarotti

2010-01-12T07:34:00.000-08:00

Kit Kat Lounge

Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft. ~Sven Nykvist

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. Edward Hopper

2010-01-10T07:25:00.000-08:00

Da Bus

What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies. ~Jon Anderson, "Epidermal Dalis," Chicago Tribune, 6 October 1994

The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation. ~James Cook

2010-01-01T15:28:00.000-08:00

New Year

Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.~Don Quixote

2009-12-29T15:07:00.000-08:00

Colours

2009-12-29T11:00:00.001-08:00

Waiting

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson