Bryan Strawser

Showing that you care is something you’re not supposed to do. The penalty is death, in a symbolic sense. Better to stay aloof, uninvolved, like a TV character. “I don’t really care,” I say, when nothing could be further from the truth. This is the American way. (Or at least the California way.)

But, at some point you have to take a stand. Maybe it’s in the last days or hours of life, struggling against cancer, heart disease or diabetes, or whatever’s gonna getcha. Maybe at that point it’s okay to care, to take a stand, to fight. But I suspect not. Even then people say “What’s he getting so riled up for?” The answer of course is fairly obvious.

It’s called living, and it’s worth getting agitated over, in theory.  [Scripting News]

Harry S Truman. “I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: ‘Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.’ I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.” [Motivational Quotes of the Day]

Halley also wrote the famous Internet essay that begins with this stunning sentence. “When my dad wakes up today, the first thing he will notice is that he is dead.” What a great piece. It is art. We have our debates and beat our chests a lot in InternetLand, but this is why I love to make writing tools, to enable writers like Halley to tell stories like this one. I’ve never met her, and she uses Blogger, not my software, but I’m still proud to be part an Internet that hosts such great writing. [Scripting News]

Coming soon- the “I support a Bush regime change” t-shirt. [Sean Gallagher: the dot.communist]

Hanging at the Panera Bread shop in Everett, Massachusetts, out in the parking lot of a “real job” store.  Enjoying a Cobblestone Muffin, some Earl Grey Tea, and waiting on a peer to arrive.

My task:  writing assessment feedback for three folks that work for me.  Loads of fun!