"Past Quotes of the Day"

I hope you are all enjoying the new style of this blog. Some people have expressed concerns about not being able to comment but it is still really easy and all comments are enjoyed. This post will be updated constantly with the quote of the day.
Quote Of The Day is this is a new thing I am trying. I will put a new quote up in the about section of the blog each day. I will a also create a post where I will keep track of the quote of the day.

May 1 2006: "The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity." -Lincoln
May 2 2006: "The census man, the day came round, wanted my name, to put it down."-Langston Hughes
May 3 2006: "They say that you have to catch some Z's to get some A's, but you never sleep so I'm not sure if that is true."-Beth
May 4 2006: "I heard this old story before where people keep listening for the metaphor, don't leave much up for the imagination."-Jack Johnson"
May 5 2006: "A dime sure goes a long way as long as you don't have inflation."-Jim Stokman
May 6 2006: "Fidel Castro is the guy from motorcycle diaries, you know the actor and freedom fighter from Argentina."-Jennie Davis
May 7 2006: "Would you like any of the water? It is water sparkling"-The water guy at Babalu's May 8 2006: "And thereupon imagination and heart were driven, so wild that every casual thought of this or that, Vanished and left but memories."-W.B. Yeats
May 9 2006: "No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."-Aristotle
May 10 2006: "Good as it ripens becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good."-C.S Lewis
May 11 2006: "You the most laid back over-acheiver ever"-Beth
May 12 2006: "Life is like a rock, it's hard and it is always there."-Tim D and Me
May 14 2006: "Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of."-John Stuart Mill
May 15 2006:" Put 'em together and what have you got? bibbidi-bobbidi-boo."- Fairy God Mother in Cinderella
May 16 2006: "Finals Are done Whoot."-Me
May 18 2006:"Lets go get lost anywhere in the USA."-Road Trippin RHCP
May 19 2006: "The ultimate power is peace."-Some Native American "The ultimate peace is power."-Ian
June 3 2006:"We stay up all night in the arms of the moonlight. I'll meet you outside your window. We'll disapear into the shadows."-Hopefuls
June 5 2006:
“Nonsense is better than no sense”-Me

What does this bean mean?

Today was a normal day. Well how normal is each day really? Not that normal, you have different thoughts conversations and you lose about 2 lbs of skin cells too, which in of itself is weird. I was at my job at the phone center, hitting up alumni for some cash, and I had a spark of hunger strike my pallet. So off I sauntered, lackadaisically looking for some kind of refreshment to extinguish my appetite. The watering hole for such fulfillment happens to be what we in the phone center call “The Candy Bowl.” It is an amazing black, hollowed-out, plastic sphere that contains various sugary goodies. It usually has your hodgepodge of strange favorites; the milky ways, the laughytaffy the snickers etc. However, there was something different this time. To the delight of my little eyes I spotted the glorious package of jelly-belly jellybeans. Jellybeans are the one candy that has not sold out. Jelly-beans still have amazing flavors after all these years of being in the candy world. When you bite into a jelly bean you know exactly what you are tasting. There is the popcorn flavor, root bear coffee, in addition to very strange flavors you can get too. Here is the difference. A strawberry jelly bean tastes like you are in a strawberry field, putting a freshly picked piece of fruit on your tongue. However, the strawberry flavors of other candies taste nothing like the actual fruit they are advertising. You have to ask yourself what this is supposed to be. Is it cherry, mango, blood of goose? I really have no clue except that it is red, which only leaves about a million other fruity options. Jelly-beans are the ultimate candy. It is like food of the future. “He do you want some steak. Oh that would be great. Give me that round brown bean looking thing. Hmm I’m stuffed lets go ride in spaceships and shoot stuff with lasers.” I know that they can make other candies taste real. We have one of the oldest candies of all time to show that to us. The other thing that is strange about jellybeans is that if you look on the package it says that Jelly-bellies are gourmet jellybeans. I feel like I need to be dressed up to eat them. It is as if they expect their product to be an entrée at fine dinning restaurants. If I was on the iron chef, that is what I would make to beat the opponent. “Oh no weird Chinese commentator lady, who knows nothing about food, it looks as if Ted has decided to make gourmet jellybeans as his final dish.” “Oh no other commentator guy, I don’t know how the iron chef is going to deal with this new culinary threat.” It just doe not make sense. You would think if they wanted to make this product seem fancy they would name their product something fancier. Instead the name alludes to an obese man’s abdomen. That is what I love to think about while I’m eating, jelly and bellies. Needless to say, the jellybean is a confusing product. I have even had flavors that taste like dirt and vomit. I was impressed it tasted just as revolting at the real thing. Whose job is it to make sure these flavors are accurate? Is there some guy who keeps eating these jellybeans then tastes some real dirt or real vomit and give suggestions to make it more realistic. “Yeah um I think the vomit jellybean needs to taste more like stomach acid.” Just some food for thought next time your having candy.

My Puppet class

So now that I don’t have anything really funny to talk about, because somehow I lost my game. I’m going to begin just letting you know what I do each day. It’s a little less interesting but I think it will get us back on track. First thing I want to tell all of you about it my puppet class. That is right this old school Sesame Street fan has finally taken the wheel and began making puppets of his very own. First of all the class is called, May Day parade, Art and Society. It is an honors seminar which means I get two free credits. Yeah! A typical class period begins with me meeting my fellow puppeteers in the skyway and driving to Heart of The Beast Theater. This is abbreviated HOTB, (For a while I would see this abbreviation and not really know what it meant. It kind of looks like hobbit, so I thought about lord of the rings for a while.) Anyways the lady who is teaching the class with my teacher, is a great person. She is very earthy if that is a good word for it and reminds me of a hippy. She likes to talk about how we feel energy in ourselves and stuff. It is kind of weird but I enjoy it because I feel like I’m immersing myself in a new way of thinking. So they make these huge puppets out of paper Mache and cardboard and just crazy stuff you would find around the house. I have been assigned to the construction of the dragon puppet for the May Day Parade. I will talk about this more next time I go and relate my experiences here along with some pictures too.