Loose Leaf Notes

1. It’s pretty bad when making a call to your credit card company to correct a statement discrepancy is considered “resting” on a busy day because you get to sit down to do it.

2. You’d be surprised how many times you can fit “phase two in which Doris gets her oats” into a conversation.

3.  Sign seen on Facebook: Senators should wear uniform like NASCAR drivers so we could identify their corporate sponsors.

4. I think saying that there’s absolutely no link between the rise in autism and vaccination is like believing there were weapons of mass destruction (in spite of the lack of evidence) because that’s what the party line was saying.

5. THESE fur-lined flip flops are an oxymoron.

6. What’s the difference between graffiti and ancient cave drawings?

7. “The people who run our cities don’t understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit. The people who truly deface our neighborhoods are the companies that scrawl giant slogans across buildings and buses trying to make us feel inadequate unless we buy their stuff.   Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours, it belongs to you, it’s yours to take, rearrange and reuse. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head…” Banksy

8.  Like a painter has a favorite model, the moon is my favorite poetic subject.

9. When I go to trainings or long meeting, I like to bring pens so I can doodle. I did it long before discovering that studies have shown that doodling helps you pay attention.

10. Me to my grandson Bryce (son of the boy pictured above): “Do you know anyone who smokes?” Bryce: “Yeah, that dog” (from the nursery rhyme Old Mother Hubbard HERE).

11. Found bathroom graffiti: Happiness can’t buy money, Death is hereditary, Graffiti should be obscene and not heard, “Fighting for peace is like having sex for virginity.”

12.  “Things could be better. They could also be worse. These cancel each other out. Things are simply things.” ~ My Dharmacratic friend Will

13. I’m with Maxine when she says, “My idea of a super bowl is a toilet bowl that cleans itself.”

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