Hitting home

Nooooo!!! Kincaid is like Joel Schumacher in my house - verboten.

Think Goya.
 
originally posted by Joe_Perry:
Nooooo!!! Kincaid is like Joel Schumacher in my house - verboten.

Think Goya.
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Goya/Kincaid, aren't they flip sides of the same coin? (Goya being the "master of darkness", that is). Just that Goya's limited editions were limited to less than a hundred, rather than something in the thousands for our never doubting Thomas!

(Actually, I do admire Goya....his etching/aquatints alone are something to behold.)
 
originally posted by Levi Dalton:
Yeah, and there is no good coffee here, either, which is really tough.
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What, not a tea drinker?

I am serious about the above question, but maybe it is a stupid one.

Note: I decided it was stupid and deleted. For this I used the Edit function. Try that with your stupid preview function.
 
I was formulating a response to your question, but the only answer I came up with was "marry rich" or at least "marry comfortably." A lot of my single income friends in the bay/ny are about to have their lives torn asunder by just a few months of unemployment.
 
VLM: you end up making more if you live in New York, and you end up spending more if you live in New York. It tends to balance out.

But I mean, part of the reason people are so happy to pay $15 for a bowl of ramen here is that that means they don't have to spend $65 on a couple of courses somewhere else.
 
Everybody should be poor for awhile, it gives you perspective.

Everyone should wait tables for at least a few months as well.
 
originally posted by Chris Coad:
Everybody should be poor for awhile, it gives you perspective.
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But if you know it's only temporary then it's hard to get the full perspective.

Still, I agree with the broader sentiment.
 
originally posted by Levi Dalton:
VLM: you end up making more if you live in New York, and you end up spending more if you live in New York. It tends to balance out.
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Not at NYU, maybe Columbia but I doubt it.
 
originally posted by Chris Coad:
Everybody should be poor for awhile, it gives you perspective.

Everyone should wait tables for at least a few months as well.
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Done both and agree (although that's probably no entirely true, I think we may have lost perspective about what poverty really is). But also agree with Rahsaan, it was only temporary and I knew that.
 
originally posted by Cory Cartwright:
I was formulating a response to your question, but the only answer I came up with was "marry rich" or at least "marry comfortably." A lot of my single income friends in the bay/ny are about to have their lives torn asunder by just a few months of unemployment.
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We have behaved rather poorly as a country in terms of how, why, and what we reward and people who never got to sample the honey are being doused with vinegar.

It's been very odd for me because my career is growing by leaps and bounds as I watch my friends and family either lose their livelihoods or live in constant fear of that happening. It is really hard to watch and have no way to help.

I really hope we've learned something. I sort of doubt it though. My opinion of my fellow human beings is nearing an all-time low.
 
originally posted by Florida Jim:
originally posted by VLM:
My opinion of my fellow human beings is nearing an all-time low.
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Sad.
I feel just the opposite. People good; Mondo bad.
Best, Jim
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I was having a serious bout of melancholy yesterday. It's mostly passed, but I need to keep a low opinion of my fellow human beings so to not be constantly disappointed.
 
originally posted by VLM:

I was having a serious bout of melancholy yesterday. It's mostly passed, but I need to keep a low opinion of my fellow human beings so to not be constantly disappointed.
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Just keep the TV tuned to Fox "News." That does it for most people.

Mark Lipton
 
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