KGBlog: August 2008

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the master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. he hardly knows which is which. he simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing...to him he is always doing both

---zen buddhist text

Posted in: on Sunday, August 31, 2008 at at 11:46 PM 0 comments

“Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.”

-Mr Rogers

Posted in: on Thursday, August 28, 2008 at at 8:28 PM 5 comments

more song than your last mix-tape...

the folks over at mixa have outdone themselves with the mix-tape usb...brilliant. while not the first to have the idea, they do let you design your own sleeve with your own pics and some pre-designed graphics.

Posted in: on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at at 11:02 PM 0 comments

anything and everything

"We are the daughters of feminists who said 'You can be anything' and we heard 'You have to be everything.' "

-Courtney Martin, Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters

i read this on a blog that i stumbled across and think that i would like to steal it and make it generic so that i can apply it to our entire generation. i will now do so:

we are the children of parents who said "you can be anything" and we heard "you have to be everything"

Posted in: on Monday, August 25, 2008 at at 11:10 PM 0 comments

this has been on repeat for the past three days

Posted in: on Saturday, August 23, 2008 at at 5:53 PM 0 comments

"if he looked back on what his life had been lately, he had perhaps managed two or three days when he had woken up, looked at the sun -or the rain- and felt glad to see the morning, just happy, without wanting anything, planning anything or asking anything in exchange. apart from those few days, the rest of his existence had been wasted on dreams, both frustrated and realized -a desire to go beyond himself, to go beyond his limitations; he had spent his life trying to prove something, but he didn't know what or to whom."

-pc

Posted in: on Thursday, August 21, 2008 at at 12:40 AM 0 comments

DYK?

Mike Rowe (dirty jobs...etc.) sang professionally with the Baltimore Opera. Go figure.

Posted in: on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at at 1:09 AM 0 comments

olympics=elementary school for US soccer

why did i just get up at 8 to watch our idiot soccer team? literally seconds from winning their second game against the netherlands they turn into 6 years old boys and get scored on. 6 year olds? yep, 6 year olds...the hero of game one, Holden (the guy that got the goal), fouls a guy just outside of the 18. for those of you that don't know soccer this means that the other team gets a shot from about 20 yards away from our goal...not a good thing. 6 years old. they line up to shoot and what do we do? the entire end of the wall JUMPS OVER THE SHOT...are you kidding me? you dont jump off of the ground when youre in a wall...maybe you bounce a little to get some height, but you dont bounce enough for a ball to go under you...you learn that at least by the time your 7.

since it just happened i couldnt find a picture of the goal...but this is pretty much what it looked like...you can imagine the ball going under the left side and into the goal.

Posted in: on Sunday, August 10, 2008 at at 9:57 AM 0 comments

setting: sitting inside of swirll yogurt shop...and moving into the parking lot.

events: lindsay says "did you see that" as i turn from looking out the window behind me. i turn again and look further around the parking lot to see what i have missed. "the security guard" comes the answer from linds. my eyes scan the parking lot for the guard and instead are drawn to a small vehicle speeding around the corner of one of the parking rows. this vehicle (golf cart meets one of those small electric cars, ie spacey lookin golf cart) flew by with doors open and a leg hanging out. it took one more lap of the parking rows for me to recognize it as the leg of the security guard. we watched what seemed to be a b-movie scene as the guard whizzed up and down the rows, taking the turns without caution and zooming up each aisle. now, in the b-movie scenario, this mario cart race track of a parking lot scene ends with a car backing up right as the security guard peels around one more parking row and provides us with a satisfying collision. in real life the guard sees the car and applies the brakes. this is unfortunate because obviously we were hoping for the movie ending. but, off goes the car and off goes the guard down the next row and WHAM!!...right into a benz. only one row over we saw it coming...the car lights, the guard completely oblivious, rolling back, wham! out we ran in disbelief. trying to slyly see the damage without being noticed, we walked past to the grocery store next to the car and security vehicle...one of the open doors busted in, and the teenage guard trying to explain why the parking lot had turned into his rainbow road racetrack. i dont have a good finish to this story, we laughed in disbelief and that was about it. maybe thats why it's just a b-movie.

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the shot i've been wanting to get all year:

hwy 10 exiting NOLA.

Posted in: on Saturday, August 09, 2008 at at 9:54 PM 1 comments

Posted in: on Thursday, August 07, 2008 at at 1:47 PM 0 comments

olympics and old blatters...

i had been under the impression that the olympics started after the opening ceremonies on friday night...i was misinformed.

the us women's soccer team has already lost its first game to norway 2-0 and both goals came in the first 4 minutes of play. not a great start for the americans...incidentally, the men's team won their first game 1-0 against japan...but we all know that the women are the ones who actually have a chance of going somewhere with the whole soccer thing.

in other soccer news the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled on wednesday that players could be stopped from playing on olympic teams by their club teams. 72 year old FIFA president Sepp Blatter had this to say:

"If all the national squads will lose players, if clubs force them to return home, we simply will not have an Olympic football tournament here in Beijing, he said. "We could do beach soccer or a five-a-side tournament."

he was obviously very happy about the decision.

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the day we lost mr norris

Sands 2 from Kevin on Vimeo.

Posted in: on Tuesday, August 05, 2008 at at 7:53 PM 0 comments

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"We all live in our own world. But if you look up at the starry sky, you will see that all the different worlds up there combine to form constellations, solar systems, galaxies."

-PC

(paulo does it much more succinctly than my kiwi blog)

Posted in: on Monday, August 04, 2008 at at 1:21 AM 0 comments