“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.” – Elvis
This is a desk that was given to Elvis as a gift from RCA commemorating the sales of his soundtrack to his 1961 movie, Blue Hawaii. The raised area at the front of it features a [...]
‘It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.’ – J. R. R. Tolkien
This is one of the dragon statues in front of Mandalay Bay in Vegas, taken on a night when we were still recovering from the night before. It truly is the city that [...]
‘Once upon a time, I, Chuang-tzu, dreamt I was a butterfly, flittering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly…suddenly I awoke… Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.’ – Chuang-tzu, [...]
‘You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You [...]
‘Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.’ Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address, 1863
I often wonder what some of our past leaders and founding fathers would think of our country’s current state. My [...]
This was is one of those ‘executive pin-art desk toys’. I remember seeing one of these in some tourist shop when I was a kid and wanting it, but didn’t have the money for it. I bought one off of eBay about 20 years later. Its funny how addictive these things are, very rarely does [...]
