UK - USA Differalities (2) : Tea

“Listen and learn, son. Tea is a herb that’s been dried out so to bring it back to life, you have to infuse it in boiling water. That is boiling water and everywhere I’ve been in this country, they slap down a cup of tepid nonsense, you know, with the tea bag lying beside it, which means I’ve got to go through the ridiculous business of dunking it in the lukewarm piss waiting for the slightest change of color to occur. And at my age, I haven’t got the time.”

Muriel - The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

One of an occasional series of posts commenting on the 'commonalities' that divide the UK and the US.

See them all here.

Ephemeralization

”the ability of technological advancement to do “more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing.”

Buckminster Fuller

This and other great material from Stowe Boyd today - hard to selectively choose on this occasion.

”On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime”

”Know the future - decide well today.”

John Fluevog

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”If I had to live my life again, I’d do everything the same, except that I wouldn’t see The Magus.”

Woody Allen

Definitely with him. One of the best books ever - coupled with one of the worst films.

In the right hands … a remake would be awesome.

“It’s not a revolution if nobody loses.”

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”Without music life would be a mistake.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

”We think we grow old, we grow wise and more tolerant; we just grow more lazy.”

John Fowles

”Don’t eulogize the past until the future has had its turn.”

… Anyone? Anyone?

”We build our computer(systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.”

Ellen Ullman — Programming Wisdom (@CodeWisdom)

Via @stoweboyd

“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.”

John Steinbeck

Is Wavelength the new cheese?

text, image, sound, no video yet … is that next?

“Don’t be the best in the world at what you do; be the only one in the world who does what you do.”

Jerry Garcia

Of course, first you have to decide what it is that you do!

🎵Something Better Change

“I said something better change
I said something better change
I said something better change
I said something better change

The Stranglers

”The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”

D.H. Lawrence