Working with your hands

"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." -Winston Churchill

Cool Website

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A man opens the door for a lady, always.

He also stands when she joins or leaves the table or enters or leaves the room.

The American Experience

"O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself."-Walt Whitman

War and Peace

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. -Leo Tolstoy War and Peace

Charles Baudelaire

THE FLASK

by: Charles Baudelaire

HERE are some powerful odours that can pass

Out of the stoppard flagon; even glass

To them is porous. Oft when some old box

Brought from the East is opened and the locks

And hinges creak and cry; or in a press

In some deserted house, where the sharp stress

Of odours old and dusty fills the brain;

An ancient flask is brought to light again,

And forth the ghosts of long-dead odours creep.

There, softly trembling in the shadows, sleep

A thousand thoughts, funereal chrysalides,

Phantoms of old the folding darkness hides,

Who make faint flutterings as their wings unfold,

Rose-washed and azure-tinted, shot with gold.

 

A memory that brings languor flutters here:

The fainting eyelids droop, and giddy Fear

Thrusts with both hands the soul towards the pit

Where, like a Lazarus from his winding-sheet,

Arises from the gulf of sleep a ghost

Of an old passion, long since loved and lost.

 

So I, when vanished from man's memory

Deep in some dark and sombre chest I lie,

An empty flagon they have cast aside,

Broken and soiled, the dust upon my pride,

Will be your shroud, beloved pestilence!

The witness of your might and virulence,

Sweet poison mixed by angels; bitter cup

Of life and death my heart has drunken up!

September 11, 2009. 

It's cold and rainy.

"The sky is crying."- Hillary

Fashion's Night Out

Fashion's Night Out tonight. 

Autumn on the way

It appears we're not going to get an indian summer.

Birdwell Beach Britches. Classic swimming trunks. Get a pair.

Babylon Revisited

"I heard that you lost a lot in the crash."
"I did," and he added grimly, "but I lost everything I wanted in the boom." - Babylon Revisited, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Winter will be coming. Get a Pea Coat, Military Issue.

A Man always walks on the street side of a woman. Always.

A man carries a handkerchief. It was good enough for your grandfather.

Clarks Desert Boots. Incredibly comfortable, classics, every man should graduate to these upon wearing out his Wallabees from univeristy.

The Pride of the Yankees. The Iron Horse.

"Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying, That's Damn Right." -Red from Shawshank

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. 

A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, 

but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. -Ernest Hemingway

APC Jeans: Durability and Style, every man should have a pair. Never wash them.

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This Gal's Got Pluck

"I was painting the loneliness of a large city"-Edward Hopper

A Man's Man