<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384</id><updated>2012-02-13T19:46:07.198-05:00</updated><category term='alex chilton'/><category term='robert smithson'/><category term='art d. lugoff'/><category term='darwin martin house'/><category term='dead milkmen'/><category term='mozart'/><category term='carl smith'/><category term='rachel whiteread'/><category term='buddy montgomery'/><category term='kevin jerome everson'/><category term='dietrich von bothmer'/><category term='jimmy carl black'/><category term='coosje van bruggen'/><category term='pam grier'/><category term='alex lees'/><category term='luis jacob'/><category term='roy scheider'/><category term='charles saatchi'/><category term='soupy sales'/><category term='al volo'/><category term='ron ehmke'/><category term='dash snow'/><category term='william eggleston'/><category term='adel abdessemed'/><category term='max estenger'/><category term='angell'/><category term='andy warhol'/><category term='reverend ike'/><category term='howard unruh'/><category term='aliza shvarts'/><category term='dan graham'/><category term='salvador dali'/><category term='don maynard'/><category term='john lennon'/><category term='no wave'/><category term='jackie felix'/><category term='virginia cuthbert'/><category term='ron asheton'/><category term='manny farber'/><category term='irving kriesberg'/><category term='michael snow'/><category term='ernest brown'/><category term='deborah remington'/><category term='odetta'/><category term='jim neu'/><category term='ted key'/><category term='tim russert'/><category term='bo diddley'/><category term='gabrielle bouliane'/><category term='jesus art'/><category term='levis stubbs'/><category term='handsome furs'/><category term='william f. buckley'/><category term='cosimo cavallaro'/><category term='ray browne'/><category term='exile on main street'/><category term='frida kahlo'/><category term='sandra firmin'/><category term='olaf breuning'/><category term='art ferrante'/><category term='lawrence halprin'/><category term='e. hofer'/><category term='jed jackson'/><category term='peter zezel'/><category term='yma sumac'/><category term='hm koutoukas'/><category term='leslie van houten'/><category term='andrew topolski'/><category term='yoko ono'/><category term='schultz'/><category term='albert york'/><category term='michelangelo'/><category term='elizabeth payton'/><category term='ted kennedy'/><category term='joe kubert'/><category term='captain lou albano'/><category term='herb ellis'/><category term='bruce jackson'/><category term='amir pnueli'/><category term='i&apos;m not there'/><category term='jasper johns'/><category term='lenore bethel'/><category term='louise borgeois'/><category term='alexander calder'/><category term='ambassador hotel'/><category term='david carradine'/><category term='chris ofili'/><category term='dina babbitt'/><category term='byron kim'/><category term='ben chapman'/><category term='maya lin'/><category term='mary travers'/><category term='ricardo montalbán'/><category term='karen finley'/><category term='tehching hsieh'/><category term='david kramer'/><category term='dickie peterson'/><category term='zoe beloff'/><category term='john beech'/><category term='merce cunningham'/><category term='brendan mullen'/><category term='george carlin'/><category term='andy kessler'/><category term='ellie greenwich'/><category term='vito acconci'/><category term='alan moore'/><category term='the three stooges'/><category term='julian schnabel'/><category term='william safire'/><category term='dick giordano'/><category term='charles clough'/><category term='henry kissinger'/><category term='milton rogovin'/><category term='peter gowland'/><category term='cachao'/><category term='charles griffith'/><category term='louise bourgeois'/><category term='henry gibson'/><category term='detroit institute of arts'/><category term='earl wild'/><category term='fabulous moolah'/><category term='christopher dawson'/><category term='archie'/><category term='deitch projects'/><category term='jeremy bailey'/><category term='lou teicher'/><category term='alexander solzhenitsyn'/><category term='frank morgan'/><category term='david gahrsydney pollock'/><category term='roy lichtenstein'/><category term='dith pran'/><category term='cecil payne'/><category term='jim dickinson'/><category term='james turrell'/><category term='john mccain'/><category term='juan perdiguero'/><category term='jenny holzer'/><category term='pieta attack'/><category term='fred morrison'/><category term='joe simon'/><category term='malcolm mclaren'/><category term='robert colescott'/><category term='dennis hopper'/><category term='doug ohlson'/><category term='richard prince'/><category term='jennifer steinkamp'/><category term='simpsons'/><category term='norman mailer'/><category term='stan winston'/><category term='dave hickey'/><category term='koko taylor'/><category term='lawrence lucie'/><category term='alberto rey'/><category term='jackie wilson'/><category term='jfk'/><category term='douglas gordon'/><category term='stephen radich'/><category term='sigmar polke'/><category term='suzanne pleshette'/><category term='molly kool'/><category term='paul brach'/><category term='the pictures generation'/><category term='panza collection'/><category term='george russell'/><category term='mel tolkin'/><category term='marilyn chambers'/><category term='niagara falls'/><category term='antoinette k-doe'/><category term='aliza schvarts'/><category term='patrick mcgoohan'/><category term='wayne frost'/><category term='walter sear'/><category term='john cage'/><category term='van gogh'/><category term='renzo piano'/><category term='centraql terminal'/><category term='anthony caro'/><category term='robert frank'/><category term='maila nurmi'/><category term='herman leonard'/><category term='baader meinhof'/><category term='eddy arnold'/><category term='joseph solman. alwrence weiner'/><category term='rafael escalona'/><category term='albert hofman'/><category term='paris'/><category term='edgar allen poe'/><category term='james koenig'/><category term='robert storr'/><category term='bruce conner'/><category term='bettie page'/><category term='chris jordan'/><category term='enrico donati'/><category term='nancy spero'/><category term='michel gondry'/><category term='señor coconut'/><category term='jim carroll'/><category term='iggy pop'/><category term='martin kippenberger'/><category term='doris salcedo'/><category term='david durston'/><category term='dave stevens'/><category term='basil wolverton'/><category term='sweet louie smith'/><category term='robert reed'/><category term='john lurie'/><category term='magda corda mchale'/><category term='albrecht dürer'/><category term='prospect'/><category term='brad pitt'/><category term='picasso'/><category term='bobby fischer'/><category term='stevie wonder'/><category term='cindy sherman'/><category term='frank mason'/><category term='sergio vega'/><category term='michael mazur'/><category term='donald frey'/><category term='gilbert and goerge'/><category term='karl malden'/><category term='klaus g. perls'/><category term='louise deutschman'/><category term='panza'/><category term='dana schulz'/><category term='ted stanke'/><category term='dick martin'/><category term='henry brant'/><category term='isaac hayes'/><category term='harvey pekar'/><category term='duwayne hatchett'/><category term='julian montague'/><category term='lucille clifton'/><category term='robert h. rines r. crumb'/><category term='ali akbar khan'/><category term='larry rivers'/><category term='mahmoud ahmed'/><category term='nikola tesla'/><category term='olafur eliasson'/><category term='oscar peterson'/><category term='susan atkins'/><category term='carlo cesta'/><category term='david foster wallace'/><category term='jerry wexler'/><category term='john scott'/><category term='mark rothko'/><category term='clyde otis richard knerr'/><category term='louis ck'/><category term='jamie lembeck'/><category term='the jam'/><category term='buffalo art keepers'/><category term='lawrence weiner'/><category term='alicia ross'/><category term='bruce high quality foundation'/><category term='lightsail'/><category term='david anderson'/><category term='hirst'/><category term='gerard damiano'/><category term='killer kowalski'/><category term='levi-strauss'/><category term='bob biniak'/><category term='george deem'/><category term='liza lou'/><category term='vic mizzy'/><category term='steve mcqueen'/><category term='carlene polite'/><category term='dede allen'/><category term='ad reinhardt'/><category term='dan flavin'/><category term='honoré sharrer'/><category term='mary walker philips'/><category term='robbe-grillet'/><category term='jack kemp'/><category term='kandor'/><category term='elizabeth peyton'/><category term='nicolas carone'/><category term='jeff koons'/><category term='prospect 1'/><category term='lux interior'/><category term='marina abramovic'/><category term='joy division'/><category term='paul h-o'/><category term='carleen hutchins'/><category term='o. winston link'/><category term='bravo&apos;s work of art'/><category term='ai'/><category term='jaime hernandez'/><category term='tata güines'/><category term='robert natkin'/><category term='howard zinn'/><category term='jean-paul belmondo'/><category term='helen levitt'/><category term='ginger baker'/><category term='sherry britton'/><category term='porter waggoner'/><category term='giuseppe panza'/><category term='willie mitchell'/><category term='paulo moura'/><category term='whitney biennial'/><category term='John russell'/><category term='robert rauschenberg'/><category term='ernest trova'/><category term='gao brothers'/><category term='johnny alf'/><category term='bill dixon'/><category term='buddy miles'/><category term='marcey jacobson'/><category term='willoughby sharp'/><category term='sly stone'/><category term='monet'/><category term='shepard fairey'/><category term='magic sam'/><category term='beyond/in western new york'/><category term='annie pootoogook'/><category term='candy darling'/><category term='lego'/><category term='james franco'/><category term='barry flanagan'/><category term='millard kaufman'/><category term='michael jackson'/><category term='stephen lack'/><category term='carnegie international 2008'/><category term='raymond mason'/><category term='ike turner'/><category term='tony rosenthal'/><category term='roy decarava'/><category term='aguabella'/><category term='karlheinz stockhausen'/><category term='the yes men'/><category term='raymond federman'/><category term='the cool school'/><category term='kate mcgarrigle'/><category term='martha rosler'/><category term='shary boyle'/><category term='liam o&apos;gallagher'/><category term='ken noland'/><category term='natasha richardson'/><category term='barack obama'/><category term='mitch miller'/><category term='arthur erickson'/><category term='farrah fawcett'/><category term='glenn gould'/><category term='guernica attack'/><category term='hilary clinton'/><category term='doug fieger'/><category term='ernesto neto'/><category term='willy deville'/><category term='alain robbe grillet'/><category term='jimmy mcgriff'/><category term='louvre'/><category term='david lynch'/><category term='aj fries'/><category term='anish kapoor'/><category term='shuler'/><category term='david j'/><category term='nick cave'/><category term='alice rossi'/><category term='angel ortiz'/><category term='nat finkelstein'/><category term='woody allen'/><category term='daniel johnston'/><category term='gabriel orozco'/><category term='kalup linzy'/><category term='cyd charise'/><category term='chris connor'/><category term='donald westlake'/><category term='edmund  hillary'/><category term='miriam makeba'/><category term='danhy gans'/><category term='nan goldin'/><category term='avigdor arikha'/><category term='dom deluise'/><category term='jerry reed'/><category term='elinor smith'/><category term='jg ballard'/><category term='dorothy podber'/><category term='herb and dorothy vogel'/><category term='rudy ray moore'/><category term='buddy harman'/><category term='takashi murakami'/><category term='c. burden'/><category term='lady gaga'/><category term='william kentridge'/><category term='tom sachs'/><category term='john ralston saul'/><category term='james whitmore'/><category term='francis bacon'/><category term='jd salinger'/><category term='lisa yuskavage'/><category term='alton kelley'/><category term='harvey korman'/><category term='simon griffis'/><category term='paul newman'/><category term='hot for words'/><category term='marcel duchamp'/><category term='gary earl ross'/><category term='jules dassin'/><category term='claire schneider'/><category term='paul mccarthy'/><category term='artemis'/><category term='carl stone'/><category term='jeff healey'/><category term='gonzales-torres'/><category term='ruben ochoa'/><category term='will elder'/><category term='reuben wilson'/><category term='orhan pamuk'/><category term='leonard cohen'/><category term='richard widmark'/><category term='esquire'/><category term='kluas dinger'/><category term='jim marshall'/><category term='tanyth berkeley'/><category term='archibald campbell'/><category term='horne'/><category term='frazetta'/><category term='arakawa'/><category term='mister cartoon'/><category term='maharishi mahesh yogi'/><category term='conchita cintrón'/><category term='ron arad'/><category term='spiral jetty'/><category term='pipillotti rist'/><category term='st clair bourne'/><category term='rashied ali'/><category term='bauhaus'/><category term='frank gehry'/><category term='danny federici'/><category term='aernout mik'/><category term='don ivan punchatz'/><category term='william faulkner'/><category term='pole dancing'/><category term='steve kurtz'/><category term='judith krug'/><category term='charles burchfield'/><category term='tom wilkes'/><category term='arthur c clarke'/><category term='richard price'/><category term='oswald'/><category term='william graebner'/><category term='steve baczkowski'/><category term='eve kosofsky'/><category term='stormy daniels'/><category term='john wesley'/><category term='dick wilson'/><category term='les paul'/><category term='coco chanel'/><category term='billy lee riley'/><category term='lost'/><category term='bob dylan'/><category term='cai guo qiang'/><category term='ruth duckworth'/><category term='barry white'/><category term='doris lee'/><category term='evel knievel'/><category term='walt disney'/><category term='robert capa'/><category term='blossom dearie'/><category term='john opera'/><category term='sam butera'/><category term='sonic youth'/><category term='patricia o&apos;neal'/><category term='abbey lincoln'/><category term='daniel bukantz'/><category term='norman smith'/><category term='curious george'/><category term='watchmen'/><category term='cecil stoughton'/><category term='al martino'/><category term='jeanne-claude'/><category term='lisa yuskevich'/><category term='mitch mitchell'/><category term='norman whitfield'/><category term='general idea'/><category term='andrew wyeth'/><category term='jerry adler'/><category term='michael smith'/><category term='eaton travis'/><category term='henri cartier bresson'/><category term='joe maneri'/><category term='garry shider'/><category term='michael goldberg'/><category term='maryanne amacher'/><category term='bruce springsteen'/><category term='bob bogle'/><category term='fisher'/><category term='sergi aragonés'/><category term='bea arthur'/><category term='carlo mollini'/><category term='sun ra'/><category term='lee goreas'/><category term='carolyn rodgers'/><category term='the eternal frame'/><category term='betty james'/><category term='al goodman'/><category term='carlos valdés'/><category term='sex pistols'/><category term='carl andre'/><category term='yinka shonibare'/><category term='hank cochran'/><category term='jack wrangler'/><category term='neil aspinall'/><category term='lukas foss'/><category term='damien hirst'/><category term='leslie buck'/><category term='wayne gonzales'/><category term='charlton heston'/><category term='chris burden'/><category term='hyman bloom'/><category term='carroll dunham'/><category term='larry gagosian'/><category term='hunter s. thompson'/><category term='mike seeger'/><category term='weegee'/><category term='george na&apos;ope'/><category term='anthony minghella'/><category term='molly crabapple'/><category term='earl palmer'/><category term='monty hale'/><category term='charles darwin'/><category term='burchfield'/><category term='reverend jen'/><category term='paul chan'/><category term='tracey emin'/><category term='ed mcmahon'/><category term='jeff kornbluth'/><category term='jeanne=claude'/><category term='paul bentley'/><category term='tino sehgal'/><category term='courbet'/><category term='frank lloyd wright'/><category term='joe cuba'/><category term='peter zinner'/><category term='catherine opie'/><category term='michael crichton'/><category term='lisa neighbour'/><category term='studs terkel'/><category term='kara walker'/><category term='julius shulman'/><category term='richard wright'/><category term='roger waters'/><category term='daniel schorr'/><category term='roy talbot'/><category term='ztohoven'/><category term='thomas humphrey'/><category term='amazing randi'/><category term='irving penn'/><category term='claes oldenburg'/><category term='baird jones'/><category term='magda cordell mchale'/><category term='jimi hendrix'/><category term='teddy pendergrass'/><category term='mike kelley'/><category term='buffalo windmills'/><category term='rosa loy'/><category term='kent twitchell'/><category term='walter cronkite'/><category term='dominick dunne'/><category term='jacques kaplan'/><category term='vincent van gogh'/><title type='text'>prolonged hacking and gnawing</title><subtitle type='html'>upcoming events at hallwalls contemporary arts center, buffalo, ny; 
other local listings; sundry filler material</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>166</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-1697737490678133350</id><published>2010-08-27T12:51:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-27T14:33:21.023-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mozart'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='herman leonard'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='abbey lincoln'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='james franco'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='catherine opie'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.— Jack BennyMy formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.— Cary GrantWe had a Depression Fair in the backyard. A major game there was Pin The Blame On The Donkey.— Richard LewisEverything's got a moral, if only you can find it.— </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/1697737490678133350/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=1697737490678133350' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/1697737490678133350'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/1697737490678133350'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/08/i-dont-deserve-this-award-but-i-have.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/THfshy3QVuI/AAAAAAAAIz0/-KbVQDBp0Ck/s72-c/DSCN1090.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-2627843202928631705</id><published>2010-08-13T11:08:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-14T08:54:03.536-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patricia o&apos;neal'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Our national strength matters, but the spirit which informs and  controls our strength matters just as much. This was the special  significance of Robert Frost. He brought an unsparing instinct for  reality to bear on the platitudes and pieties of society. His sense of  the human tragedy fortified him against self-deception and easy  consolation. "I have been" he wrote, "one acquainted with the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/2627843202928631705/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=2627843202928631705' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/2627843202928631705'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/2627843202928631705'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/08/our-national-strength-matters-but.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/TGBvmtixn7I/AAAAAAAAIt0/FYWdvyFIddI/s72-c/DSCN0850.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-7575570332405180551</id><published>2010-08-06T12:14:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-06T12:24:06.507-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daniel schorr'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mitch miller'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='doug ohlson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='al goodman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nicolas carone'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Luck is believing you're lucky.— Tennessee WilliamsNo one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.— Simone de BeauvoirA man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.— Albert CamusThere is nothing like a dream </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/7575570332405180551/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=7575570332405180551' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/7575570332405180551'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/7575570332405180551'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/08/luck-is-believing-youre-lucky.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/TFwnnRlgD8I/AAAAAAAAItM/sf_PJqsllnY/s72-c/DSCN0705.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-6390650486507912400</id><published>2010-07-30T10:36:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-30T21:49:02.254-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sandra firmin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alan moore'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I think every woman should have a blowtorch.— Julia ChildThe trouble with the world is that the stupid are so confident while the intelligent are full of doubt.— Bertrand RussellDo your little bit of good where you are. It's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.— Bishop Desmond TutuFear not for the future, weep not for the past.— Percy Bysshe ShelleyFriday    Overture: </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/6390650486507912400/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=6390650486507912400' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/6390650486507912400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/6390650486507912400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/07/i-think-every-woman-should-have.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/TFLg5XGuOiI/AAAAAAAAIqs/_hF44nAxzSQ/s72-c/DSCN0593.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-3288240960456257705</id><published>2010-07-23T13:04:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-23T13:06:12.079-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='larry rivers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paulo moura'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hank cochran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jim neu'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.— Anton ChekhovI love Wagner but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.— Charles BaudelaireAnyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/3288240960456257705/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=3288240960456257705' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3288240960456257705'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3288240960456257705'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/07/people-dont-notice-whether-its-winter.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/TEmBlLQUjvI/AAAAAAAAIn8/5zUkWdmQ1o0/s72-c/DSCN0533.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-7024411722543575980</id><published>2010-07-16T16:46:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-16T18:33:20.018-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='harvey pekar'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.— RumiWe do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward or fix us</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/7024411722543575980/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=7024411722543575980' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/7024411722543575980'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/7024411722543575980'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/07/your-task-is-not-to-seek-love-but.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/TEDC8F5TvZI/AAAAAAAAIm8/RTkNRl0vKco/s72-c/DSCN0467.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-8130627592483513779</id><published>2010-07-02T10:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-02T10:44:08.973-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='simon griffis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='charles saatchi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='burchfield'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sergio vega'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Well done is better than well said.— Benjamin FranklinIf you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.— George Bernard ShawArt is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/8130627592483513779/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=8130627592483513779' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/8130627592483513779'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/8130627592483513779'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/07/well-done-is-better-than-well-said.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/TC3vdUW02wI/AAAAAAAAIks/2QXU9XeYTiI/s72-c/DSCN0377.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-4794366397113273580</id><published>2010-06-25T10:07:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-25T10:16:10.943-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='garry shider'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bill dixon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bravo&apos;s work of art'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Find out who you are and do it on purpose.— Dolly PartonAt the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.— Ernesto Che GueveraThe greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.— Stephen HawkingNot everyone who drinks is a poet. </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/4794366397113273580/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=4794366397113273580' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4794366397113273580'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4794366397113273580'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/06/find-out-who-you-are-and-do-it-on.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/TCSS2eklN5I/AAAAAAAAIis/t4uWDXGlYZc/s72-c/DSCN0333.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-9190364219943468898</id><published>2010-06-18T10:43:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-18T10:48:31.004-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sigmar polke'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dennis hopper'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Let's have some new cliches.— Samuel GoldwynThere are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a deadly wine that intoxicates you with freedom; others when it is a bitter tonic; and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.— ColetteLIfe has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/9190364219943468898/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=9190364219943468898' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/9190364219943468898'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/9190364219943468898'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/06/lets-have-some-new-cliches.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/TBtefQ0czbI/AAAAAAAAIg0/jbC6Y-M9TWU/s72-c/DSCN0241.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-7051444269213125227</id><published>2010-06-11T10:04:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-16T10:34:42.724-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anthony caro'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='louise bourgeois'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marina abramovic'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I not only use all the brains I have, but all that I can borrow.— Woodrow WilsonLife happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.— Kurt VonnegutDid you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/7051444269213125227/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=7051444269213125227' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/7051444269213125227'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/7051444269213125227'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/06/i-not-only-use-all-brains-i-have-but.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/TBGpw7JAknI/AAAAAAAAIbk/zb3kN5bGMmk/s72-c/DSCN0184.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-8576156980753300403</id><published>2010-05-28T10:12:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-28T18:50:18.525-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='david durston'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gonzales-torres'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='monet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='exile on main street'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lost'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marina abramovic'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your   business.— Lenny BruceI believe that banking institutions  are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.— Thomas  JeffersonI decided that  it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind  of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who  deliver all their sublime messages without </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/8576156980753300403/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=8576156980753300403' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/8576156980753300403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/8576156980753300403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/05/when-you-are-eight-years-old-nothing-is.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/S_-kHar3tdI/AAAAAAAAIZc/z2YCmy69aKw/s72-c/DSCN6275.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-4397128923600613462</id><published>2010-05-21T09:33:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-22T11:35:49.877-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arakawa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deborah remington'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.— Clarence DarrowThere are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it—more than a billion people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.— A. Whitney BrownSome things are so </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/4397128923600613462/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=4397128923600613462' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4397128923600613462'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4397128923600613462'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-have-never-killed-man-but-i-have-read.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/S_aERm-EVEI/AAAAAAAAIW0/0EznSOYQO4A/s72-c/DSCN6238.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-5380939414398620777</id><published>2010-05-14T12:42:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-15T10:50:23.394-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eaton travis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='angell'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='horne'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shuler'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='frazetta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fisher'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aguabella'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Sacred cows make the best hamburger.— Mark TwainThe speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.— Edward R. MurrowCanada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavor—we're more like celery as a flavor.— Mike MyersWe have art so that</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/5380939414398620777/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=5380939414398620777' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/5380939414398620777'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/5380939414398620777'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/05/sacred-cows-make-best-hamburger.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/S-yjNStFEoI/AAAAAAAAISU/T47EQv7Xmk0/s72-c/DSCN6184.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-3545150785873382245</id><published>2010-05-07T14:57:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-07T15:05:08.836-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pam grier'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='robert natkin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giuseppe panza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='avigdor arikha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='walter sear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='leslie buck'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.— Berthold AuerbachTo be a book collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.— Robertson DaviesFor, after all, what is Man in Nature? A nothing in relation to infinity. All in relation to nothing. A central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/3545150785873382245/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=3545150785873382245' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3545150785873382245'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3545150785873382245'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/05/of-all-afflictions-worst-is-self.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/S-K6XNfsgmI/AAAAAAAAIP8/6WgJkodOVNM/s72-c/DSCN6166.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-8090611608156161279</id><published>2010-04-30T09:38:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-30T09:42:05.348-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>No time for quote mining, obituaries, listings, banal film/record reviews because this week is ONLY about Artists&amp;Models: STIMULUS, Hallwalls' fundraising art party that takes place tomorrow, Saturday, May 1, 9pm to 2am.And here's no time to write a tome on A&amp;M. If you want some info, check  out:Laura Duquette's coverage in Buffalo RisingColin Dabdowski's GUSTO cover story in today's Buffalo </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/8090611608156161279/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=8090611608156161279' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/8090611608156161279'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/8090611608156161279'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/04/no-time-for-quote-mining-obituaries.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/S9rYQHZ59bI/AAAAAAAAINs/SqZg5mHEhY0/s72-c/n105839939447565_7480.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-8206747599301993467</id><published>2010-04-23T07:34:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-24T09:18:48.330-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dede allen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='carolyn rodgers'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>If you can't be funny, be interesting.— Harold RossWhen a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.— George Bernard ShawI wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.— Harper</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/8206747599301993467/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=8206747599301993467' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/8206747599301993467'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/8206747599301993467'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/04/if-you-cant-be-funny-be-interesting.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/S9CxifjBxwI/AAAAAAAAIKk/Ytjx8Fwea9M/s72-c/DSCN5944.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-3292028476410433166</id><published>2010-04-16T13:39:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-18T08:34:17.567-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been  more specific.— Lily TomlinIt is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.— Charles BaudelaireThe thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.— Henry MillerNothing exists but </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/3292028476410433166/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=3292028476410433166' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3292028476410433166'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3292028476410433166'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/04/i-always-wanted-to-be-somebody-but-i.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/S8d5wE3pULI/AAAAAAAAIHc/JSZii6eaGEE/s72-c/DSCN5872.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-3177773676963604212</id><published>2010-04-09T09:54:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-09T09:54:34.299-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='henri cartier bresson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='malcolm mclaren'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>All that happens means something. Nothing you do is ever insignificant.— Aldous HuxleyThat which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.— John LockePart of the secret of success in life is to eat what  you like and let the food fight it out inside.— Mark TwainThe vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/3177773676963604212/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=3177773676963604212' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3177773676963604212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3177773676963604212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/04/all-that-happens-means-something.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/S759B7dwzTI/AAAAAAAAIEc/z9hz7N4Ombg/s72-c/DSCN5852.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-3720461101647287329</id><published>2010-04-02T10:54:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-02T11:00:59.799-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elinor smith'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='peter gowland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dick giordano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='donald frey'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='herb ellis'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.— Henry David ThoreauChess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you find outside an advertising agency.— Raymond ChandlerI can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.— Ayn RandAll speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.— </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/3720461101647287329/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=3720461101647287329' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3720461101647287329'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3720461101647287329'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/04/beware-of-all-enterprises-that-require.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/S7TkdLZlPhI/AAAAAAAAH_0/LjgVzMTQ6-Q/s72-c/DSCN5784.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-3462720317022022407</id><published>2010-03-26T11:12:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-03-26T15:46:15.636-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='curious george'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lady gaga'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jerry adler'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jim marshall'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The road to hell is paved with adverbs.— Stephen KingIt may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.— Martin Luther KingWhen I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.— R. Buckminster FullerYou might as well fall flat on your </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/3462720317022022407/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=3462720317022022407' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3462720317022022407'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3462720317022022407'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/03/road-to-hell-is-paved-with-adverbs.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/S6uwr417pWI/AAAAAAAAH-M/-APQHnWoVsI/s72-c/DSCN5726.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-8953334440066998828</id><published>2010-03-18T13:21:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-03-19T13:24:14.611-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alex chilton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ruben ochoa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hm koutoukas'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.— Dorothy ParkerThe legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me  no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.— Thomas JeffersonWhen a true genius </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/8953334440066998828/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=8953334440066998828' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/8953334440066998828'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/8953334440066998828'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/03/every-year-back-comes-spring-with-nasty.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/S6JRmIwJXfI/AAAAAAAAH7E/e6Z2NQzeKw0/s72-c/DSCN5688.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-6177167729065949687</id><published>2010-03-12T11:09:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-12T13:06:27.889-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='johnny alf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bob biniak'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marina abramovic'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.— Gary TrudeauAny man who inflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.— H.L. MenckenEverybody is too busy with their own lives to give a damn about your book, painting, screenplay, etc, especially if you haven't sold it yet. And the ones that aren't, you don't want in your life</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/6177167729065949687/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=6177167729065949687' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/6177167729065949687'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/6177167729065949687'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/03/ive-been-trying-for-some-time-to.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/S5pl3BELxmI/AAAAAAAAH4s/1LDPu2_LUl4/s72-c/DSCN5607.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-7714099330894731876</id><published>2010-03-05T08:51:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-05T13:23:43.030-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jimi hendrix'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='julian montague'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='karen finley'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='charles burchfield'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.— Dorothy ParkerInformation is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other and we need them all.— Arthur C. ClarkeAfter a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.— Albert </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/7714099330894731876/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=7714099330894731876' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/7714099330894731876'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/7714099330894731876'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/03/you-cant-teach-old-dogma-new-tricks.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/S5CVLixsMOI/AAAAAAAAH00/gbb6SMIh-a0/s72-c/DSCN5652.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-4608280591161091815</id><published>2010-02-26T13:31:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-26T15:12:02.029-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='william kentridge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='whitney biennial'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='raymond mason'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.— TS EliotBut it ain't our feeling we have to steer by through life—no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that—what it's right to do.— Lucy Maud MontgomeryI can honestly say to you, slaves of the press, that if I had as many love affairs as you have </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/4608280591161091815/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=4608280591161091815' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4608280591161091815'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4608280591161091815'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/02/some-editors-are-failed-writers-but-so.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/S4c76ScnlgI/AAAAAAAAHxc/yMObocR44NE/s72-c/DSCN5487.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-8718325485744379458</id><published>2010-02-19T09:52:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-20T08:30:36.979-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lucille clifton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fred morrison'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='doug fieger'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>My main hope for myself is to be where I am— Woody HarrelsonThe three fundamental Rules of Robotics...ONE: A robot may not injure a human being or, through in action, allow a human being to come to harm. TWO: A robot must obey the orders given it be human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. THREE: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/8718325485744379458/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=8718325485744379458' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/8718325485744379458'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/8718325485744379458'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-main-hope-for-myself-is-to-be-where.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/S33y2wdR-4I/AAAAAAAAHwE/4wNTeJ-6cCk/s72-c/DSCN5393.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-1623306624873498391</id><published>2010-02-12T08:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-12T08:25:36.715-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gabrielle bouliane'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reverend jen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='william faulkner'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='john cage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ron ehmke'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I'm as pure as the driven slush.— Tallulah BankheadLove is a perky elf, dancing a merry jig, then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.— Matt GroeningWe are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.— Stephen HawkingSpend and be spent.— Theodore RooseveltFriday Overture: Hey</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/1623306624873498391/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=1623306624873498391' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/1623306624873498391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/1623306624873498391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/02/im-as-pure-as-driven-slush.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/S3SpNcPVHvI/AAAAAAAAHtc/YCBq0LsMCaY/s72-c/DSCN5433.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-8209100783712040533</id><published>2010-02-05T12:20:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-05T19:05:51.444-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tino sehgal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='steve mcqueen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='niagara falls'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The superfluous is very necessary.— VoltaireThat man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.— Gustave FlaubertFact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/8209100783712040533/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=8209100783712040533' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/8209100783712040533'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/8209100783712040533'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/02/superfluous-is-very-necessary.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/S2shJIjejcI/AAAAAAAAHqk/nJU1Q_XqZig/s72-c/DSCN5387.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-7298566179390151757</id><published>2010-01-29T09:13:00.011-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-04T14:26:41.374-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='earl wild'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jd salinger'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lost'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='howard zinn'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bauhaus'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Love like a driving wheel. That's my idea of love.— Bob DylanThe thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.— Edward AlbeeIn every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virture of </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/7298566179390151757/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=7298566179390151757' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/7298566179390151757'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/7298566179390151757'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/01/love-like-driving-wheel.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/S2IvqFh9iUI/AAAAAAAAHm0/lgFrCXiFAW0/s72-c/DSCN5334.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-7076023532521322355</id><published>2010-01-22T08:24:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-22T15:29:08.489-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='teddy pendergrass'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gabriel orozco'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ken noland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='carl smith'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='carlene polite'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kate mcgarrigle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='willie mitchell'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.— Charles M. SchulzI think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.— Shelley WintersHe hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/7076023532521322355/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=7076023532521322355' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/7076023532521322355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/7076023532521322355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2010/01/no-problem-is-so-formidable-that-you.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/S1dzAoVMDLI/AAAAAAAAHj0/7Gde6MUQ0Kc/s72-c/DSCN5311.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-1740485320067728670</id><published>2009-11-20T11:29:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-20T11:53:44.860-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spiral jetty'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irving kriesberg'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='amir pnueli'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paul h-o'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='joe kubert'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tracey emin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jeanne-claude'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jeanne=claude'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='andy warhol'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.— Ludwig von BeethovenPeople say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds up a mirror for you?— Isaac AsimovWisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does—except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/1740485320067728670/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=1740485320067728670' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/1740485320067728670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/1740485320067728670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/11/no-one-should-drive-hard-bargain-with.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/Swa_1d9GBTI/AAAAAAAAHfk/uMoFEVVPBoE/s72-c/DSCN4211.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-5857896631802882332</id><published>2009-11-13T07:45:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-13T09:40:45.069-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='don ivan punchatz'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alice rossi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='amazing randi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='george na&apos;ope'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='robert h. rines r. crumb'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bauhaus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='general idea'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art d. lugoff'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='c. burden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lightsail'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='levi-strauss'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='albert york'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='e. hofer'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Luck is the residue of design.— Branch RickeyI think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.— Stephen HawkingAs for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/5857896631802882332/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=5857896631802882332' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/5857896631802882332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/5857896631802882332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/11/luck-is-residue-of-design.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/Svyrqa8PCKI/AAAAAAAAHcs/1AMoAW2dgms/s72-c/DSCN4205.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-2936178736798402988</id><published>2009-10-30T01:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-30T01:45:30.898-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stevie wonder'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ray browne'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='roy decarava'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maryanne amacher'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soupy sales'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lawrence halprin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ruth duckworth'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Gray skies are just clouds passing over.— Duke EllingtonIt is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.— Arnold ToynbeeAnyone whose goal is "something higher" must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/2936178736798402988/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=2936178736798402988' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/2936178736798402988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/2936178736798402988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/10/gray-skies-are-just-clouds-passing-over.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SupEnuw4WeI/AAAAAAAAHYY/9QhMvFzF1gQ/s72-c/DSCN4105.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-4963697727070242547</id><published>2009-10-23T01:04:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-23T01:07:36.501-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='howard unruh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vic mizzy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nancy spero'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stephen lack'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anish kapoor'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.— Marshall McLuhanWhy should I do anything for posterity? What has posterity ever done for me?— Groucho MarxAbove all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/4963697727070242547/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=4963697727070242547' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4963697727070242547'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4963697727070242547'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/10/i-dont-necessarily-agree-with.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SuEnx8kcxlI/AAAAAAAAHWQ/MDkpKQidT2A/s72-c/DSCN3973.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-8655732905088958485</id><published>2009-10-16T07:55:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-16T18:33:02.875-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='captain lou albano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dietrich von bothmer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dickie peterson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irving penn'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='john lurie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brendan mullen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='al martino'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='charles burchfield'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='damien hirst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nat finkelstein'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.— Bertolt BrechtSuppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.— Mark TwainI've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/8655732905088958485/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=8655732905088958485' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/8655732905088958485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/8655732905088958485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/10/your-theory-is-crazy-but-its-not-crazy.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/Std2fCXE-YI/AAAAAAAAHTg/Xn49MiRCxc0/s72-c/DSCN3981.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-1934365350262871337</id><published>2009-10-09T07:55:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-10T08:40:29.505-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='louvre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='archie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='william safire'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irving penn'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darwin martin house'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='raymond federman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='molly crabapple'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marcel duchamp'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mahmoud ahmed'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gao brothers'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Truth is a pathless land.— KrishnamurtiSome people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.— Charles BukowskiIf we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.— Ray BradburyA </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/1934365350262871337/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=1934365350262871337' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/1934365350262871337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/1934365350262871337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/10/truth-is-pathless-land.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/Ss3PY9NG8jI/AAAAAAAAHOo/x0PAu81-5Qs/s72-c/DSCN3957.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-2189466040852758141</id><published>2009-10-02T07:31:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-02T07:35:19.090-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='susan atkins'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='frida kahlo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jackie felix'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dave hickey'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daniel johnston'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jim carroll'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.— F. Scott FitzgeraldWithout culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.— Albert CamusThese fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are—you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/2189466040852758141/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=2189466040852758141' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/2189466040852758141'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/2189466040852758141'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/10/in-real-dark-night-of-soul-it-is-always.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SsTklYUV-1I/AAAAAAAAHMo/2EB3HTCS-5s/s72-c/DSCN3930.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-4315478062507871581</id><published>2009-09-25T08:15:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-25T10:09:20.639-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mary travers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='henry gibson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jackie felix'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='coco chanel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art ferrante'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='robert frank'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christopher dawson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jim carroll'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'> I don't do drugs. I am drugs.— Salvador DaliYour manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.— Samuel JohnsonThe man who backbites an absent friend; nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him; the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit; who can invent what he never saw; who </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/4315478062507871581/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=4315478062507871581' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4315478062507871581'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4315478062507871581'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-dont-do-drugs.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/Sry0Y_1x2sI/AAAAAAAAHLY/9nPurwIDQV4/s72-c/DSCN3733.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-3901301198631630529</id><published>2009-09-11T10:54:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-11T11:45:55.024-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='larry rivers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lego'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='barry flanagan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ambassador hotel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baader meinhof'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.— Robert HeinleinAny great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world—the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.— Leonard BernsteinNo mockery in this world ever sounds </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/3901301198631630529/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=3901301198631630529' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3901301198631630529'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3901301198631630529'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/09/always-listen-to-experts.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/Sqe89RMWSlI/AAAAAAAAHD4/qzV4hqa6aps/s72-c/DSCN3722.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-4594092936302831150</id><published>2009-09-04T11:15:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-04T12:47:42.941-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='david anderson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the three stooges'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='michael mazur'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dominick dunne'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ellie greenwich'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chris connor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hyman bloom'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='salvador dali'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='joe maneri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marcel duchamp'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ernest brown'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.— Karl MarxThe only means of strengthening one's intelligence is to make up one's mind about nothing—to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.— John KeatsMy most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.— Elmore LeonardAll our final decisions are made in a </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/4594092936302831150/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=4594092936302831150' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4594092936302831150'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4594092936302831150'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/09/philosophy-is-to-real-world-as.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/Sp1hH2shguI/AAAAAAAAHBY/CYVLXuuLAlo/s72-c/DSCN3617.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-5984676885907361934</id><published>2009-08-21T09:39:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-21T11:27:32.271-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ted kennedy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lawrence lucie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bruce high quality foundation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='robert capa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jim dickinson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rashied ali'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>He who hesitates is a damned fool.— Mae WestWeaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals. Except the weasels.— Homer SimpsonA fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/5984676885907361934/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=5984676885907361934' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/5984676885907361934'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/5984676885907361934'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/08/he-who-hesitates-is-damned-fool.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/So6K8KavUHI/AAAAAAAAG-o/JR6z93WotvE/s72-c/DSCN3586.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-8736168806732975917</id><published>2009-08-14T07:13:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-14T08:21:14.123-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='andy kessler'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marcey jacobson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='willy deville'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='carleen hutchins'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='les paul'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mike seeger'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='milton rogovin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sergi aragonés'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Art is anything you can get away with.— Marshall McLuhanI don't understand anything about the ballet. All I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.— Anton ChekhovI thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.— Mark TwainLove is or it ain't. Thin love ain't </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/8736168806732975917/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=8736168806732975917' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/8736168806732975917'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/8736168806732975917'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/08/art-is-anything-you-can-get-away-with.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SoPxI4rJSiI/AAAAAAAAG6w/dEfN5cSYW_c/s72-c/DSCN3495.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-331197642710318511</id><published>2009-08-07T06:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-07T06:53:24.411-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tony rosenthal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='leslie van houten'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='billy lee riley'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dina babbitt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='george russell'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Summertime, and the living is easy.— George GershwinThe brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.— Robert FrostIt took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.— Robert BenchleyTalk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.—</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/331197642710318511/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=331197642710318511' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/331197642710318511'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/331197642710318511'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/08/summertime-and-living-is-easy.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SnbMQPmMlgI/AAAAAAAAG3Q/6RN0OTwtJ0c/s72-c/DSCN3244.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-4005742253335671069</id><published>2009-07-31T07:14:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2009-07-31T07:17:43.317-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='zoe beloff'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ron arad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reverend ike'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='merce cunningham'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stormy daniels'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Either define the moment or the moment will define you.— Walt WhitmanOne of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.— A.A. MilneA pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun—and neither can stop the march of events.— Robert A. HeinleinTake away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "Fuck the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/4005742253335671069/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=4005742253335671069' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4005742253335671069'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4005742253335671069'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/07/either-define-moment-or-moment-will.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SnLRXdeuF_I/AAAAAAAAG3A/h6FDtslcsas/s72-c/DSCN3017.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-4688340695806548369</id><published>2009-07-24T08:28:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-07-24T11:24:45.220-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='annie pootoogook'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tom wilkes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='julius shulman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='basil wolverton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='walter cronkite'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dash snow'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The best way out is always through.— Robert FrostNothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.— Marie Curie"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."— G. K. ChestertonTo be loved, be lovable.— OvidFriday </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/4688340695806548369/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=4688340695806548369' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4688340695806548369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4688340695806548369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/07/best-way-out-is-always-through.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SmmmlhiwI8I/AAAAAAAAG0A/M5_HqSVgaHk/s72-c/DSCN3002.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-438605536574761488</id><published>2009-07-10T07:34:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-07-10T07:36:30.634-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='magic sam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='simpsons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dan graham'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='duwayne hatchett'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kevin jerome everson'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>You are free, and that is why you are lost.— Franz KafkaOf the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.— Mark TwainDo you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true. They are the only things that are true.— George Bernard </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/438605536574761488/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=438605536574761488' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/438605536574761488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/438605536574761488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/07/you-are-free-and-that-is-why-you-are.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SlclOUW17ZI/AAAAAAAAGxA/sSjP6hiFUrU/s72-c/DSCN2589.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-5740799944919798142</id><published>2009-07-03T11:36:00.009-04:00</published><updated>2009-07-03T14:44:53.937-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='karl malden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dan graham'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='michael jackson'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.— Rene DescartesI tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.— Simone de BeauvoirEven in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original. Whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring two pence how often it has been </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/5740799944919798142/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=5740799944919798142' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/5740799944919798142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/5740799944919798142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/07/it-is-not-enough-to-have-good-mind.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/Sk4kQq-zNYI/AAAAAAAAGvM/gXLaYh35IBU/s72-c/DSCN2637.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-5010700013666631885</id><published>2009-06-26T09:03:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-26T12:43:02.794-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='yinka shonibare'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='michael jackson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ed mcmahon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='centraql terminal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='farrah fawcett'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ali akbar khan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='frank mason'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shepard fairey'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>When in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.— Raymond ChandlerIf you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.— Herman HesseEvery now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/5010700013666631885/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=5010700013666631885' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/5010700013666631885'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/5010700013666631885'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/06/when-in-doubt-have-two-guys-come.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SkKcTI8cHcI/AAAAAAAAGt8/N0jgMNoKBYw/s72-c/DSCN1524.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-5514738339616319939</id><published>2009-06-19T07:48:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-19T11:00:02.445-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gary earl ross'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='herb and dorothy vogel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jd salinger'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bob bogle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brad pitt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sonic youth'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>A witty saying proves nothing.— VoltaireI'm zipping through the days at lightning speed.Plug in, flush out and fire the fuckin' feed.Heading for the overload,Splattered on the dirty road,Kick me like you've kicked before,I can't even feel the pain no more.— Jagger/RichardsThey are so damn “intellectual” and rotten that I can't stand them anymore...I would rather sit on the floor in the market of </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/5514738339616319939/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=5514738339616319939' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/5514738339616319939'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/5514738339616319939'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/06/witty-saying-proves-nothing.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/Sjt53bzt0QI/AAAAAAAAGr0/Bz5HoxZkUpk/s72-c/DSCN2552.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-3109734390514323609</id><published>2009-06-12T09:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-12T09:11:40.227-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='john wesley'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='robert colescott'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Time cancels young pain.— EuripidesThe first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.— Salvador DaliI believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/3109734390514323609/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=3109734390514323609' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3109734390514323609'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3109734390514323609'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/06/time-cancels-young-pain.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/Si_vRZvgWWI/AAAAAAAAGok/ZsUZnZ0gziU/s72-c/DSCN2298.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-6924866337013331955</id><published>2009-06-05T07:41:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-05T07:47:04.056-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sam butera'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lenore bethel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='koko taylor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pole dancing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='barack obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='david carradine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='david lynch'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>We have to believe in free will. We’ve got no choice.— Isaac Bashevis SingerWhat if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.— Woody AllenI've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/6924866337013331955/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=6924866337013331955' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/6924866337013331955'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/6924866337013331955'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/06/we-have-to-believe-in-free-will.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/Sic1QH9b6PI/AAAAAAAAGmE/PTWUiNlATNo/s72-c/DSCN2303.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-1166156605118213903</id><published>2009-05-29T07:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-29T07:16:53.244-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bruce jackson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='roy talbot'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rafael escalona'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='buddy montgomery'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='peter zezel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='louise deutschman'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'> Nothing is worth more than this day.— Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThere is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.— J. S . BachMen fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth—more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible. Thought is merciless to privilege, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/1166156605118213903/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=1166156605118213903' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/1166156605118213903'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/1166156605118213903'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/05/nothing-is-worth-more-than-this-day.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/Sh7unPLUWFI/AAAAAAAAGhs/BiKaYUrnpMY/s72-c/DSCN2299.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-3621488231018312344</id><published>2009-05-22T09:54:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-22T12:47:03.445-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the jam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arthur erickson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='francis bacon'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.— Abraham LincolnWhat is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It's this in-between—this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one—which is really the realm of the artist.— Federico FelliniThere is something pagan in me that I </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/3621488231018312344/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=3621488231018312344' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3621488231018312344'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3621488231018312344'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/05/it-has-been-my-experience-that-folks.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/ShaT9rYRM8I/AAAAAAAAGgQ/YMEXRN-JEbk/s72-c/DSCN1533.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-803775298267408038</id><published>2009-05-15T00:04:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-16T11:21:29.745-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='renzo piano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='michelangelo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='claes oldenburg'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='honoré sharrer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ernesto neto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reverend jen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='frank gehry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='frank lloyd wright'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='john lennon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aernout mik'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>We also know how cruel truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.— Henri PoincareThere's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.— Stephen ColbertNow the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent it. But art is not meant to stop the</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/803775298267408038/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=803775298267408038' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/803775298267408038'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/803775298267408038'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/05/we-also-know-how-cruel-truth-often-is.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/Sgyzcu5dMZI/AAAAAAAAGZk/Mf91j94il5o/s72-c/DSCN2214.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-7445026286315196610</id><published>2009-05-08T07:37:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-08T14:50:06.482-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maya lin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='carl stone'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sun ra'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jack kemp'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='danhy gans'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alex lees'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dom deluise'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='van gogh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='carlo mollini'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nikola tesla'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='damien hirst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='david lynch'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Man, being reasonable, must get drunk. The best of life is but intoxication.— Lord ByronIf you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine. But to hang all this desperate sociology on the idea of The Cloud Guy Who Has The Big Book Who Knows If You've Been Bad Or Good—and cares about any of it—to hang it all on that, folks, is the chimpanzee part of the brain </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/7445026286315196610/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=7445026286315196610' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/7445026286315196610'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/7445026286315196610'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/05/man-being-reasonable-must-get-drunk.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SgNmpLjpHcI/AAAAAAAAGYk/X01KreJxosU/s72-c/DSCN1931.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-2885145247745686831</id><published>2009-05-01T09:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-01T09:22:31.829-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bea arthur'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='al volo'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The best revenge is massive success.— Frank SinatraIt's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.— Alan AldaThe aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/2885145247745686831/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=2885145247745686831' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/2885145247745686831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/2885145247745686831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/05/best-revenge-is-massive-success.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SfrpyuDZlxI/AAAAAAAAGUs/eOLeuH04GtA/s72-c/DSCN1935.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-513657102796694201</id><published>2009-04-24T08:45:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-24T20:32:33.463-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the pictures generation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jg ballard'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.— Marlene DietrichWe dont like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. Well, art is art, isnt it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/513657102796694201/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=513657102796694201' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/513657102796694201'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/513657102796694201'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/04/sex.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SfG2SLk3cBI/AAAAAAAAGUM/5UvB2US5Kro/s72-c/DSCN1897.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-6832183069518292186</id><published>2009-04-17T08:35:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-17T08:41:33.476-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marilyn chambers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kalup linzy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='judith krug'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eve kosofsky'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Life begins on the other side of despair.— Jean Paul SartreThe common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous. On the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.— W. Somerset MaughamIf there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/6832183069518292186/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=6832183069518292186' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/6832183069518292186'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/6832183069518292186'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/04/life-begins-on-other-side-of-despair.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/Seh2w1Al_yI/AAAAAAAAGS0/pOfhfHCQD-U/s72-c/DSCN1542.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-950416420467420668</id><published>2009-04-10T07:39:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-10T07:43:15.013-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bob dylan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mister cartoon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='robert frank'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jack wrangler'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='harvey pekar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='david kramer'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>A sketch is better than a long speech.— NapoleonEverything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.— Marcel ProustIf men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.— André MauroisThe best way to cheer yourself up</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/950416420467420668/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=950416420467420668' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/950416420467420668'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/950416420467420668'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/04/sketch-is-better-than-long-speech.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/Sd8uxs09MnI/AAAAAAAAGQE/9jPAYnOq8SQ/s72-c/DSCN1771.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-4967077960408991443</id><published>2009-04-03T08:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-03T08:15:50.983-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='monty hale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='helen levitt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='james koenig'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jackie wilson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kent twitchell'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='walt disney'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I'm a born-again atheist.— Gore Vidal People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.— Bill WattersonNext to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.— Benjamin DisraeliCharm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.— Albert CamusNothing Says Spring Like a Red Jumpsuit and Brown </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/4967077960408991443/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=4967077960408991443' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4967077960408991443'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4967077960408991443'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/04/im-born-again-atheist_03.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SdT7H7UV8tI/AAAAAAAAGMU/nsd9tpjGCOM/s72-c/DSCN1554.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-6665173777156409232</id><published>2009-03-26T14:35:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-27T14:38:21.009-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lisa yuskavage'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.— Samuel JohnsonI have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories—and how contradictory they are—rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories.— D. H. LawrenceThe mark of</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/6665173777156409232/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=6665173777156409232' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/6665173777156409232'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/6665173777156409232'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/03/integrity-without-knowledge-is-weak-and.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/Sc0cM04MTeI/AAAAAAAAGKc/ZUhtYzWtMuM/s72-c/DSCN1751.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-7087031911800602830</id><published>2009-03-20T08:27:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-20T08:31:13.798-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='millard kaufman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='larry gagosian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paris'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dana schulz'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jenny holzer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tanyth berkeley'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='natasha richardson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ernest trova'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The first priest was the first rogue who met the first fool.— Carl SaganSometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.— Philip K. DickThere are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.— Bette DavisWhen a man is wrapped up in </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/7087031911800602830/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=7087031911800602830' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/7087031911800602830'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/7087031911800602830'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/03/first-priest-was-first-rogue-who-met.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/ScMIIvEyuAI/AAAAAAAAGHc/UJufY3M7IjM/s72-c/DSCN1714.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-3344682176535107358</id><published>2009-03-13T00:08:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-13T14:51:30.407-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='watchmen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darwin martin house'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='william graebner'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='barry white'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jed jackson'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Delay is preferable to error.—    Thomas JeffersonUse, do not abuse—neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.— VoltaireIf you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/3344682176535107358/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=3344682176535107358' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3344682176535107358'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3344682176535107358'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/03/delay-is-preferable-to-error.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/Sblse9OyhRI/AAAAAAAAGD0/VVYFf3hkA_4/s72-c/DSCN1571.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-3820308178230474446</id><published>2009-03-06T08:42:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T13:16:12.230-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='louis ck'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='adel abdessemed'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='antoinette k-doe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='charles darwin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bruce springsteen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='molly kool'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tehching hsieh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='martin kippenberger'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.— RumiYou cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.— Mark TwainAll national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.— Thomas PaineWe are such little </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/3820308178230474446/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=3820308178230474446' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3820308178230474446'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3820308178230474446'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-want-to-sing-like-birds-sing-not.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SbBoEErkrfI/AAAAAAAAGCs/sBmrxpnJVPs/s72-c/DSCN1581.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-5929466307755271045</id><published>2009-02-27T00:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-27T00:03:15.926-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='candy darling'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lisa yuskevich'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='leonard cohen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reuben wilson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='señor coconut'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I'd rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.— Robert IngersollEach friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.— Anaïs NinWithout freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.— Albert CamusThe world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/5929466307755271045/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=5929466307755271045' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/5929466307755271045'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/5929466307755271045'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/02/id-rather-smoke-one-cigar-than-hear-two.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SadoUjlLS7I/AAAAAAAAGAU/mzbUSm-_FE8/s72-c/DSCN1590.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-8782022946011278911</id><published>2009-02-20T08:48:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-20T08:50:17.808-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='joe cuba'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='conchita cintrón'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>You know, I am an eternal optimist. That doesn't mean I'm a sap.— President Barack ObamaKnow how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.—  PlutarchI can honestly say to you, slaves of the press, that if I had as many love affairs as you have given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School.— Frank SinatraBehind every great fortune</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/8782022946011278911/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=8782022946011278911' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/8782022946011278911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/8782022946011278911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/02/you-know-i-am-eternal-optimist.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SZ6xQ7zoX7I/AAAAAAAAF98/z1ttO-KSsHQ/s72-c/DSCN1483.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-2737348358542314930</id><published>2009-02-13T00:00:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-13T09:01:16.695-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='charles darwin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='james whitmore'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blossom dearie'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Sacred cows make the best hamburger.— Mark TwainIt is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.— Charles DarwinI have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.— Galileo GalileiThere is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.— James ThurberHappy Valentine's DayTOMORROW @ HALLWALLSSat, Feb 14, 8pm </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/2737348358542314930/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=2737348358542314930' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/2737348358542314930'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/2737348358542314930'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/02/sacred-cows-make-best-hamburger.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SZTjFbp2qnI/AAAAAAAAF8Y/L-RJ_BgbhA0/s72-c/DSCN1448b.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-3260811241262068487</id><published>2009-02-06T00:00:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-06T08:17:29.124-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lux interior'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lukas foss'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.— Woody AllenA bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.— Robert FrostNobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.— Albert CamusI would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.— Bertrand Russell"Now, they say that virtue is it's own </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/3260811241262068487/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=3260811241262068487' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3260811241262068487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3260811241262068487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-one-regret-in-life-is-that-i-am-not.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SYs38DVE02I/AAAAAAAAF5Q/IWWrR55wseE/s72-c/DSCN1424.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-3763946623891243401</id><published>2009-01-30T10:03:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-30T16:49:59.889-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Guilt is a rope that wears thin.— Ayn RandOn the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.— George OrwellSunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, and snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.— John RuskinIf God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.— Mel BrooksTONIGHT @ </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/3763946623891243401/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=3763946623891243401' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3763946623891243401'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3763946623891243401'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/01/guilt-is-rope-that-wears-thin.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SYMVzR5biCI/AAAAAAAAF3Y/g5gV5ZafuMI/s72-c/soda.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-9038199215173679880</id><published>2009-01-23T08:57:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-23T14:17:03.612-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jean-paul belmondo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jeff kornbluth'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='coosje van bruggen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='andrew wyeth'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Boredom: the desire for desires.— Leo TolstoyIt's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.— Sir Winston ChurchillThe hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.— DanteThe moment we choose to love, we begin to move towards freedom.— bell hooksYippie Kay Yay, MF and Don't Let the Washington Monument Hit</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/9038199215173679880/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=9038199215173679880' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/9038199215173679880'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/9038199215173679880'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/01/boredom-desire-for-desires.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SXkIsXkFDrI/AAAAAAAAFzY/n9kehVb5hc8/s72-c/DSCN1436.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-2280055620862272632</id><published>2009-01-16T00:42:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-16T10:37:55.115-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patrick mcgoohan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='donald westlake'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ricardo montalbán'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>We are always the same age inside.— Gertrude SteinThe truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.— Flannery O'ConnorI have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.— Virginia WoolfHappiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.— George BurnsThere Has To Be A Morning AfterOkay, history pop quiz. Which </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/2280055620862272632/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=2280055620862272632' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/2280055620862272632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/2280055620862272632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/01/we-are-always-same-age-inside.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SXAbEhU4NzI/AAAAAAAAFwI/VU1r1n-fGvQ/s72-c/DSCN1402.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-3074014199291637659</id><published>2009-01-09T16:07:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-09T16:36:57.412-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='willoughby sharp'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bettie page'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='prospect 1'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ron asheton'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Now is the time for all good men to come to.— Walt KellyIn all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.— Peter DruckerI can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.— Jack HandeyEveryone thinks of changing the world, but no one </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/3074014199291637659/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=3074014199291637659' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3074014199291637659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3074014199291637659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2009/01/now-is-time-for-all-good-men-to-come-to.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SWe8YsYFA9I/AAAAAAAAFtY/k__4A17I3bs/s72-c/DSCN1156.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-5869922241124661484</id><published>2008-12-05T00:08:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-06T15:22:25.842-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cindy sherman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='carlo cesta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='odetta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dead milkmen'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I improve on misquotation.— Cary GrantI used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.— Nancy AstorEvery normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.— H. L. MenckenDepend on the rabbit’s foot, if you will, but remember </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/5869922241124661484/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=5869922241124661484' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/5869922241124661484'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/5869922241124661484'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/12/i-improve-on-misquotation.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/STi13AbFpYI/AAAAAAAAFlE/BiioQRJGESQ/s72-c/DSCN1104.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-6203166432283595400</id><published>2008-11-28T10:20:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-28T10:22:12.343-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='charles clough'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='betty james'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ginger baker'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Paranoia means having all the facts.— William S. BurroughsWhen I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.— Groucho MarxBore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.— Benjamin DisraeliThe young always have the same problem: how to rebel and conform at the same time.  They have now solved this by defying their parents</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/6203166432283595400/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=6203166432283595400' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/6203166432283595400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/6203166432283595400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/11/paranoia-means-having-all-facts.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/STAKsPmBcjI/AAAAAAAAFik/kUdogf9RVJ8/s72-c/DSCN1048.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-2781959351290747585</id><published>2008-11-21T12:03:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-22T13:20:40.986-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oswald'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jfk'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the yes men'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pipillotti rist'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Men have become the tools of their tools.— Henry David ThoreauAlways get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.— Mickey RooneyA credulous mind...finds most delight in believing strange things, and the stranger they are the easier they pass with him; but never regards those that are plain and feasible, for every man can believe such.— Samuel</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/2781959351290747585/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=2781959351290747585' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/2781959351290747585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/2781959351290747585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/11/men-have-become-tools-of-their-tools.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SSbnXYWzW1I/AAAAAAAAFgQ/zPifbFqJZc4/s72-c/DSCN0985.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-4503695211434171394</id><published>2008-11-14T13:05:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-14T15:33:56.409-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maya lin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mitch mitchell'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jimmy carl black'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='miriam makeba'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.— Cecil B. DeMilleNine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.— Bertrand RussellHe who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/4503695211434171394/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=4503695211434171394' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4503695211434171394'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4503695211434171394'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/11/creativity-is-drug-i-cannot-live.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SR29NC4v9FI/AAAAAAAAFew/rbNWnxnNyWI/s72-c/DSCN0949.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-1959684868900587295</id><published>2008-11-07T12:26:00.009-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-07T13:12:24.948-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='william eggleston'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='michael crichton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='yma sumac'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='studs terkel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cecil stoughton'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.— RodinWe do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are—that is the fact.— Jean-Paul SartreI am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.— Winston ChurchillThe dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/1959684868900587295/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=1959684868900587295' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/1959684868900587295'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/1959684868900587295'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/11/nothing-is-waste-of-time-if-you-use.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SRR7YK2I2fI/AAAAAAAAFcg/8ZFSfTXMLxU/s72-c/surfer' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-8756383698220404374</id><published>2008-10-31T09:35:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-31T09:41:22.351-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bob dylan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='steve baczkowski'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gerard damiano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='prospect'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='luis jacob'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='john mccain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jaime hernandez'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.— Edgar BergenMarriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.— Mae WestIf you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.— Samuel Taylor ColeridgeIt's a funny thing about life—if you refuse to </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/8756383698220404374/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=8756383698220404374' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/8756383698220404374'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/8756383698220404374'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/10/ambition-is-poor-excuse-for-not-having.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SQptX8rs7wI/AAAAAAAAFZc/p5A-dZkUccQ/s72-c/halloween.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-4232995364873194640</id><published>2008-10-24T10:04:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-24T10:08:23.511-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vincent van gogh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='levis stubbs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='picasso'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rudy ray moore'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>You can't have everything. Where would you put it?— Steven WrightAnyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.— Alvin TofflerIn this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.— H. L. MenckenBear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/4232995364873194640/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=4232995364873194640' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4232995364873194640'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4232995364873194640'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/10/you-cant-have-everything.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SQE4TC5BfkI/AAAAAAAAFW0/av5oLuUuwmc/s72-c/DSCN0854.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-2493169722988188322</id><published>2008-10-17T13:02:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-17T13:02:55.844-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rachel whiteread'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='martha rosler'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alexander calder'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.— Phillip K. DickMan is in love and loves what vanishes. What more is there to say?— W.B. YeatsI think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.— Tony BennettAdults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.— Dr. SeussExhibitions Continuing @ HW thru Oct 25gallery hrs </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/2493169722988188322/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=2493169722988188322' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/2493169722988188322'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/2493169722988188322'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/10/reality-is-that-which-refuses-to-go.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SPjB3awnInI/AAAAAAAAFVU/9goWC27pyXQ/s72-c/DSCN0834.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-2740731115717273153</id><published>2008-10-10T11:19:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-10T13:05:42.546-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vito acconci'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='herb and dorothy vogel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ted stanke'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elizabeth payton'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.— Ralph Waldo EmersonPatriotism is the virtue of the vicious.— Oscar WildeThere is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?— Woody AllenI like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.— Thomas JeffersonProgram NoteSo I received an email this</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/2740731115717273153/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=2740731115717273153' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/2740731115717273153'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/2740731115717273153'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/10/louder-he-talked-of-his-honor-faster-we.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SOz4rHWsgeI/AAAAAAAAD0A/SiKqJZh4nfY/s72-c/DSCN0802.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-2210585332695520242</id><published>2008-10-03T12:44:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-03T13:31:53.165-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paul newman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='liza lou'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gilbert and goerge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shepard fairey'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.— Jules RenardBasically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night—be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.— Frank SinatraPopular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of “</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/2210585332695520242/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=2210585332695520242' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/2210585332695520242'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/2210585332695520242'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-am-not-sincere-even-when-i-say-i-am.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SOY0-Uh-3KI/AAAAAAAADyw/TMmDn1ZNYkA/s72-c/DSCN0782.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-7062221869405606771</id><published>2008-09-26T11:49:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-26T13:48:46.943-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='norman whitfield'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='earl palmer'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>What a splendid head, yet no brain.— AesopFew people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.— George Bernard ShawGreat artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.— Margot FonteynSome editors are failed writers, but so are </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/7062221869405606771/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=7062221869405606771' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/7062221869405606771'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/7062221869405606771'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/09/what-splendid-head-yet-no-brain.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SNv6IBn7x7I/AAAAAAAADwQ/noI0mPHKZIA/s72-c/DSCN0756.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-3511193258217729442</id><published>2008-09-19T14:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-19T14:38:50.423-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='david foster wallace'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='richard wright'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='john opera'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='damien hirst'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Vote early and vote often.— Al CaponeIt's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.— Dolly PartonWhenever we read the obscene stories, voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a Demon than the word of God. It is a history</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/3511193258217729442/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=3511193258217729442' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3511193258217729442'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3511193258217729442'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/09/vote-early-and-vote-often.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SNK8pThUXnI/AAAAAAAADsw/p-MHkd1xVac/s72-c/DSCN0687.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-5356641366889814221</id><published>2008-09-12T09:58:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-12T10:00:37.654-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='john beech'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reverend jen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='henry kissinger'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='edgar allen poe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jeff koons'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>When I get smitten, I stay smut.— Charlie McCarthyThe key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.— Casey StengelI always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake—which I also keep handy.— W. C. FieldsWe work in the dark. We do what we can. We give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/5356641366889814221/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=5356641366889814221' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/5356641366889814221'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/5356641366889814221'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/09/when-i-get-smitten-i-stay-smut.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SMg43dBeIlI/AAAAAAAADpw/aRrpev7egb0/s72-c/jayne1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-6315525523925654817</id><published>2008-09-05T10:55:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-05T17:49:46.792-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='buddy harman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='killer kowalski'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jerry reed'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='john opera'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.— Orson WellesAnybody can become angry—that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.— AristotleIf you marry, you will regret it. If you do not marry, you will regret it. If you marry or do not marry, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/6315525523925654817/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=6315525523925654817' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/6315525523925654817'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/6315525523925654817'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/09/ask-not-what-you-can-do-for-your.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SMCQ5gI58AI/AAAAAAAADoA/4K_27Y1m7Mg/s72-c/DSCN0593.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-6442527156277863196</id><published>2008-08-29T07:23:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-30T12:46:27.935-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='george deem'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='John russell'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cai guo qiang'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.— Tallulah BankheadHaving a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.— Lemony SnicketWhen I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/6442527156277863196/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=6442527156277863196' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/6442527156277863196'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/6442527156277863196'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/08/if-i-had-to-live-my-life-again-id-make.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SLScVx5ohII/AAAAAAAADjA/ixIhp9HzOGc/s72-c/DSCN0033.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-3376561919556163615</id><published>2008-08-22T12:25:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-25T19:56:29.467-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='manny farber'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mike kelley'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='buffalo windmills'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='david kramer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jerry wexler'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kandor'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.— Mark TwainWhen a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.— Anatole FrancePleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so not to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/3376561919556163615/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=3376561919556163615' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3376561919556163615'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/3376561919556163615'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/08/if-you-tell-truth-you-dont-have-to.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SK49QpXep2I/AAAAAAAADiA/sVmuNcSMG_E/s72-c/drums' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-2822892650855716973</id><published>2008-08-15T09:26:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-16T10:47:21.401-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paul mccarthy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='isaac hayes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='carnegie international 2008'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.— Emile ZolaMy views of the Christian religion are the result of a life of inquiry and reflection, and very different from that anti-Christian system imputed to me by those who know nothing of my opinions. To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/2822892650855716973/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=2822892650855716973' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/2822892650855716973'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/2822892650855716973'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/08/i-am-artist.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SKTIgTt-hAI/AAAAAAAADeY/lrxSqcIraJA/s72-c/DSCN0473.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-8126308501404804977</id><published>2008-08-08T11:36:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-08T12:05:48.997-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lou teicher'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='virginia cuthbert'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='byron kim'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='angel ortiz'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='albrecht dürer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alexander solzhenitsyn'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='damien hirst'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.— Arnold SchwarzeneggerI don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.— Agatha ChristieThe price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.— PlatoLet’s have</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/8126308501404804977/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=8126308501404804977' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/8126308501404804977'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/8126308501404804977'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/08/i-just-use-my-muscles-as-conversation.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SJxhiFe9cfI/AAAAAAAADaQ/bxmdytSyhxI/s72-c/DSCN0460.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-1714822903674239334</id><published>2008-08-01T12:57:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-01T13:06:00.929-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daniel bukantz'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ad reinhardt'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.— William ShakespeareTo become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.— Giorgio de ChiricoFar from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/1714822903674239334/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=1714822903674239334' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/1714822903674239334'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/1714822903674239334'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/08/i-thank-god-i-am-as-honest-as-any-man.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SJMt_8W-K0I/AAAAAAAADWY/d-wZ7Z5vzHE/s72-c/ryespill.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-4324631570774280142</id><published>2008-07-25T10:30:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-25T19:53:57.175-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paul bentley'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iggy pop'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jacques kaplan'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.— Ambrose BierceMy pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.— Jean RostandWe've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/4324631570774280142/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=4324631570774280142' title='39 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4324631570774280142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4324631570774280142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/07/quotation-n-act-of-repeating.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SIk5ps8G1CI/AAAAAAAADVo/e1m1AfO0bgo/s72-c/sanlin' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>39</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-8955590469478507935</id><published>2008-07-18T11:34:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-18T12:42:38.767-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='olafur eliasson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='takashi murakami'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.— Oscar WildeI have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.— Winston ChurchillThe trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.— H.L. MenckenHindsight is always twenty-twenty.—</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/8955590469478507935/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=8955590469478507935' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/8955590469478507935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/8955590469478507935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/07/only-way-to-get-rid-of-temptation-is-to.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SIC3t3G__xI/AAAAAAAADSw/mKfps0tK87o/s72-c/DSCN0013.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-7426896654881087226</id><published>2008-07-11T10:01:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-11T10:25:18.194-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='panza collection'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elizabeth peyton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bruce conner'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.—SocratesIt is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.— Norman MacleanWhat lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.— Ralph Waldo EmersonI have such poor vision I can date anybody.— Garry Shandling @ Hallwalls thru July 18  SEIZED Critical Art Ensemble &amp; the Institute for Applied </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/7426896654881087226/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=7426896654881087226' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/7426896654881087226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/7426896654881087226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-know-nothing-except-fact-of-my.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SHdL_z3LAMI/AAAAAAAADQQ/U8z994U7_rg/s72-c/DSCN0218.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-7578539367296662922</id><published>2008-07-04T12:23:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-04T19:36:33.401-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paul mccarthy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='richard prince'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hunter s. thompson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='salvador dali'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='louise borgeois'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='andy warhol'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair. — Edmund Burke  Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.— William Penn  Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. — James Boswell  To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live. — </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/7578539367296662922/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=7578539367296662922' title='68 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/7578539367296662922'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/7578539367296662922'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/07/never-despair-but-if-you-do-work-on-in.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SGeew3spa-I/AAAAAAAADLY/5XAL0BG5nXs/s72-c/DSCN0153.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>68</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-4981639320152821845</id><published>2008-06-27T11:30:00.012-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-27T12:28:30.407-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='george carlin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jamie lembeck'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Always do whatever's next.Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.Get on </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/4981639320152821845/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=4981639320152821845' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4981639320152821845'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4981639320152821845'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/06/always-do-whatevers-next.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SGGcx-qnI0I/AAAAAAAADII/nLsigcNTAgc/s72-c/DSCN0098.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-1238703214120211404</id><published>2008-06-20T08:13:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-24T09:54:22.190-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='weegee'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tim russert'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cyd charise'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stan winston'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.— James ThurberA stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.— Bertrand RussellThe world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.— Samuel JohnsonDance like it hurts,Love like you need money,Work </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/1238703214120211404/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=1238703214120211404' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/1238703214120211404'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/1238703214120211404'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/06/he-knows-all-about-art-but-he-doesnt.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SFst0ie6M8I/AAAAAAAADFk/PSTyvcZ0jls/s72-c/rawfurs' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-4592234193830489691</id><published>2008-06-13T08:53:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-04T10:44:34.313-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bob dylan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='no wave'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chris burden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='roy lichtenstein'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jeff koons'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.— Albert EinsteinEvery now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.— </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/4592234193830489691/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=4592234193830489691' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4592234193830489691'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/4592234193830489691'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/06/imagination-is-more-important-than.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SFHMr_Y6CDI/AAAAAAAADB0/rLTmxeO6RzU/s72-c/slow-down-cop-hides-behind-sign.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-2540931551474538534</id><published>2008-06-06T07:46:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-06T12:07:15.771-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alton kelley'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='klaus g. perls'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bo diddley'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Paradise is where I am.— VoltairePrince, what you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am of myself. There are and there will be thousands of princes. There is only one Beethoven.— Ludwig van BeethovenBe kind and considerate with your criticism. It’s just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.— Malcolm CowleyThe secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/2540931551474538534/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=2540931551474538534' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/2540931551474538534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/2540931551474538534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/06/paradise-is-where-i-am.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SEiZuiwJAiI/AAAAAAAADAk/wSmXZCXVYyg/s72-c/Bruce,+pining.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-992548210919753553</id><published>2008-05-30T08:40:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-30T08:44:23.002-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jimmy mcgriff'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='harvey korman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='david gahrsydney pollock'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dick martin'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing. I used to be a good boy.—    Mark TwainThe Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.— P.J. O'RourkeIt is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/992548210919753553/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=992548210919753553' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/992548210919753553'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/992548210919753553'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/05/it-used-to-be-good-hotel-but-that.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SD97QSwI_0I/AAAAAAAAC64/6thHycqaPZo/s72-c/DSCF0039.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1199850617926731384.post-902761908314334807</id><published>2008-05-23T14:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-23T14:29:28.572-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elizabeth peyton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rosa loy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hilary clinton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='robert rauschenberg'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='yoko ono'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='will elder'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>When spiders unite they can tie down a lion.—Ethiopian proverbGovernment is not reason. It is a force, like a fire; a dangerous servant and a terrible master.—    George WashingtonA computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.— Joseph CampbellIf you can’t beat ‘em, arrange to have them beaten.— George Carlin8 Days and CountingArtvoice Preview Lucy YauCurrent Hallwalls </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/feeds/902761908314334807/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1199850617926731384&amp;postID=902761908314334807' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/902761908314334807'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1199850617926731384/posts/default/902761908314334807'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jmassier.blogspot.com/2008/05/when-spiders-unite-they-can-tie-down.html' title=''/><author><name>prolonged hacking and gnawing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18224843430603752423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_5gW6OiFwD2U/SDYW9ywI_pI/AAAAAAAAC5g/-ZP_iRlB1Ec/s72-c/1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
