Bus Drivers are Scum

All men are sex-crazed.

All black people like hip-hop.

All Muslims are terrorists.

Anyone who likes Warhammer is a geek.

All women like chocolate.

All French people are rude and eat frogs.

All stereotypes are wrong.

The Dope Cabala

There is an important difference between the words 'loser' and 'outlaw'. One is passive and the other is active, and the main reasons the (Hell's) Angels are such good copy is that they are acting out the day-dream of millions of losers who don't wear any defiant insignia and who don't know how to be outlaws. The streets of every city are thronged with men who would pay all the money they could get their hands on to be transformed - even for a day - into hairy, hard-fisted brutes who walk over cops, extort free drinks from terrified bartenders and then thunder out of town on big motorcycles after raping the banker's daughter. Even people who think the Angels should all be put to sleep find it easy to identify with them. They command a fascination, however reluctant...

The Doc

Easy Until

You should stick things out. If you start a new job, or make some new friends, make the effort, even if you have birthing pains to start with. You feel worse if you give up on something straight away, which is easy if you're quite a negative personality type like me.

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Celebrity Culture

I'm quite against the assimilation of various quotes for a piece of writing, and think that good writers should use quotes sparingly and probably as less than 7% of their finished work. But often you find that other people have worded things in a much more empathic way than you could. This is surely one of the largest reasons why poetry and prose are so popular - as a mirror for the soul, which can search out places that are hard to reach by one's self. Anyway, here's a selection of quotes which I have taken from and hope you can...

"If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

- Vincent Van Gogh

“Every 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 Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.”

- Hunter S. Thompson