Quotation of the day for July 31, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for July 31, 2014 "It was Terry's last wish that his pallbearers be the Toronto Maple Leafs so they could let him down one last time." - Terry Siebert, a lifelong Toronto Maple Leafs fan, in his obituary. The Maple Leafs haven't won a Stanley Cup since 1967, when Siebert was an 11-year-old boy. Siebert's pallbearers did wear Maple Leafs jerseys. [http://www.lifenews.ca/announcement/4647341-siebert-terrance-w-terry-] [https://twitter.com/omarsachedina/status/492864680621125633/photo/1] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jul. 31, 2014

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Quotation of the day for July 29, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for July 29, 2014 Oh Lord, wish my bed wasn't silken sheets so tight I got to keep my strength up got to do a show tonight I'll have a cup of coffee while I'm taking in the news No need to have a shave 'cause I'm gonna sing the blues Well, I think I'll get a massage, maybe lose a little fat So I'll have to go downtown in my brand new Cadillac My valet comes and dresses me, I light a big cigar Because I like to look like Nimrod when I'm riding in my car Can blue men sing the whites Or are they hypocrites For singing, woo, woo, wooh? - Vivian Stanshall, from his song Can Blue Men Sing The Whites, recorded by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. Submitted by: Terry Labach Jul. 25, 2014

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Quotation of the day for July 28, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for July 28, 2014 The bands I like, they don't sell so many records, And the girls I like, they don't kiss too many boys, And the books I read will never be best sellers, Oh but come on fellas at least we made our choice. - Frank Turner, from his song We Shall Not Overcome, recorded on his 2013 album Tape Deck Heart. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmOZuSyAQnI] Submitted by: Terry Labach Jul. 25, 2014

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Quotation of the day for July 27, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for July 27, 2014 "I used to look for guys who don't list Fight Club in their favorites, but I've had to relax that rule, because all dudes evidently love Fight Club." - Jaclyn Friedman, writer, on online dating. [http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2010/03/26/fucking-while-feminist-with-jaclyn-friedman/] Submitted by: Rob Wood Jul. 24, 2014

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Quotation of the day for July 26, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for July 26, 2014 "But this is a world whose economy is bolstered by convincing us that skills are too much work, and that the goods we consume are the one true way to a life well lived. Our ingenuity, we're told, is just a way for us to cheap out on buying the good stuff. Our techniques and traditions are too time-consuming and cerebral to compete with a stock image of a smiling face next to a piece of shit we have to buy to live a complete life. Our time is stolen and sold back to us as convenience. Our health is stolen and sold back to us as pills. And at the end of it, we still fight with each other, endlessly, to the last moment. Not for truth, happiness, or love, but to get more shit." - Drew Fairweather [http://theworstthingsforsale.com/2014/06/30/steakchamp-grilling-thermometer/] Submitted by: Sean Gugler Jul. 11, 2014

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Quotation of the day for July 25, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for July 25, 2014 "The C.I.A. staff in Germany was certainly watching, and they clearly concluded that the Germans might not be willing participants in their spy games. From their point of view, sharing intelligence with the Germans must be like being on a pub crawl with a member of a temperance society." - Jochen Bittner, in an Op-Ed for the New York Times, "Spies Like Us", July 13, 2014. [http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/07/14/opinion/jochen-bittner-spies-like-us.html] Submitted by: Kelly Groves Jul. 14, 2014

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Quotation of the day for July 24, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for July 24, 2014 "If they overdose and kill themselves, it just removes them from the gene pool." - Rob Schaaf, Missouri Senator, on helping defeat a 2012 bill that tried to implement a prescription drug database to detect drug abuse. [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/21/us/missouri-alone-in-resisting-prescription-drug-database.html?_r=0] Submitted by: Reddy, Michael Jul. 22, 2014

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Quotation of the day for July 21, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for July 21, 2014 "But in the United States by far the major innovations in productivity improvement all involve ideology, the highly inventive calling-forth by management of voluntary, rather than forced, forms of super-exploitation. So far the most common examples for the average worker involve the donation of additional time represented by the ideology of professionalism. Workers not previously considered professional and not compensated like professionals now routinely donate countless hours to their employers: doing one's email at 6 am, taking phone calls in the evening, writing reports on weekends, traveling and attending employer events on personal time, and so forth." - Marc Bousquet [http://www.theminnesotareview.org/journal/ns7172/credos_bousquet.shtml] Submitted by: Rob Wood Jul. 17, 2014

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Quotation of the day for July 20, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for July 20, 2014 "Inside my house, I felt not only the guilt and fear you'd expect but also the same brooding sense of myself I'd get two years later at our annual holiday cocktail party, standing at the window and looking out at the cold, wintry street while behind me someone shook a shaker with an icy sound, like a comet flying through the din of chat, and I stared outside for a few beats beyond civility and felt, behind me, the party I was hosting awaiting my return. One more man staring out his window, feeling the weight of his obligations shove him into a loneliness that was almost, but not quite, beyond comprehension." - David Means, in his short story The Mighty Shannon. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jul. 16, 2014

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Quotation of the day for July 19, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for July 19, 2014 "Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life! Before succumbing to the intoxicating warmth of that promise, it's critical to ask, "Who, exactly, benefits from making work feel like nonwork?" "Why should workers feel as if they aren't working when they are?" In masking the very exploitative mechanisms of labor that it fuels, DWYL is, in fact, the most perfect ideological tool of capitalism. If we acknowledged all of our work as work, we could set appropriate limits for it, demanding fair compensation and humane schedules that allow for family and leisure time. "And if we did that, more of us could get around to doing what it is we really love." - Miya Tokumitsu [http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/01/do_what_you_love_love_what_you_do_an_omnipresent_mantra_that_s_bad_for_work.single.html] Submitted by: Rob Wood Jul. 17, 2014

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Quotation of the day for July 18, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for July 18, 2014 "I was about 17 and B.B. didn't want to let me on stage at first. He asked me for a union card, and I had one. Also, I kept sending people over to ask him to let me play. Finally, he decided that there enough people who wanted to hear me that, no matter if I was good or not, it would be worth it to let me on stage. He gave me his guitar and let me play. I got a standing ovation, and he took his guitar back!" - Johnny Winter, blues guitarist and singer, recalling the first time he played with B.B. King, in 1962. Winter died this week at age 70. Submitted by: Terry Labach Jul. 17, 2014

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Quotation of the day for July 17, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for July 17, 2014 "Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent ten thousand miles to China to be filleted, then sent back to Scottish shops and restaurants, than to pay Scottish filleters." - Rose George, in Ninety percent of everything. Submitted by: Terry Labach Apr. 23, 2014

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Quotation of the day for July 16, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for July 16, 2014 "I am fascinated by how political the lives of chimps are, and how much they are defined by tyranny and revolt. When a leader or a bully exerts relentless force over a group, the group lives in fear. There is submission but also constant deceit and subterfuge among those trying to find some small satisfaction behind the back of the alpha." - Colin McAdam, whose 2013 novel A Beautiful Truth featured chimp characters. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jul. 16, 2014

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Quotation of the day for July 15, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for July 15, 2014 "He's making a fool of himself. He shouldn't use the fact that he's been abusing drugs as an excuse for being a fool." - Marion Barry, former crack-smoking Washington mayor, on former crack-smoking Rob Ford, Toronto Mayor. [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/ford-making-a-fool-of-himself-former-washington-mayor-says/article19588518/] Submitted by: Rob Wood Jul. 15, 2014

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Quotation of the day for July 14, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for July 14, 2014 "...I asked Kimberley Shears, the company's director of logistics, whether eating Larry [the lobster] was cruel. Admittedly we were enjoying a delicious lunch of cold lobster tails in Tangier's shoreside gazebo at the time, not the most sensitive choice of nourishment, considering the subject at hand. Ms. Shears bestowed a kind look on me, and said, "They technically don't have a brain." No, I thought: They have two penises instead, I guess it's a trade-off." - Ian Brown, on lobsters. [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/my-travels-with-larry/article19557387/] Submitted by: Rob Wood Jul. 14, 2014

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Quotation of the day for July 13, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for July 13, 2014 "Guitar is the easiest instrument in the world to learn to play badly." - Andres Segovia Submitted by: Terry Labach Jul. 11, 2014

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Quotation of the day for July 12, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for July 12, 2014 "Body shaming: You'd like to spend more time at Copacabana or Ipanema, but it makes you feel bad about yourself. In the morning, the whole of Rio is out at the beach jogging or doing pull-ups or playing volleyball with their feet. Everyone's exercising. EVERYONE. And you're schlumpfing around like a de-shelled turtle. You'll be better when you get home (i.e. No, you won't). Everything's going to change (i.e. Nothing's going to change)." - Cathal Kelly, journalist, on things that went right at the 2014 World Cup. Submitted by: Rob Wood Jul. 11, 2014

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