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2008 Quotes of the Year
2008 Quotes of the Year
"'I thought I'd host an end of the world party, but the media might take it seriously.' —Stephen Hawking, reassuring that world was not due to end with the launch of the Large Hadron Collider."
·allgreatquotes.com·
2008 Quotes of the Year
The Atlantic: The Existential Clown
The Atlantic: The Existential Clown
Jim Carrey as a genius, the "representative jester of our time." "Carrey’s dream sequence of movies is a prophecy, a warning that this clanking ego-apparatus in which each of us walks around, this fissured, monumental self, half Job and half Bertie Wooster, cannot be sustained. Out of his own seemingly bottomless disquiet, Carrey writhes and reaches into the bottomless disquiet of his audience."
·theatlantic.com·
The Atlantic: The Existential Clown
Wikipedia: Gallows humor
Wikipedia: Gallows humor
"Gallows humor is a type of humor that arises from stressful, traumatic or life-threatening situations such as wartime events, hostilities, mass murder; often in circumstances where death is perceived as impending and unavoidable. It is similar to black comedy but differs in that it is made by the person affected."
·en.wikipedia.org·
Wikipedia: Gallows humor
YTMND: catonakeyboardinspace
YTMND: catonakeyboardinspace
"What you see when you die." (Yeah, so I had a list of YTMNDs on my computer and I decided to put them all in Delicious, but every single one except this one was Captain Jean-Luc Picard singing about cake and drunken ping-pong with Ronald McDonald.)
·whatyouseewhenyoudie.ytmnd.com·
YTMND: catonakeyboardinspace