August 2008
4 posts
WatchSometimes you have to take a break from the jet-setting, global-criminal conspiring, world-politics-influencing life, and just party.
Big Boy Rules
One thing that pisses me off a lot regarding the American public’s reaction to September 11th is the nonstop vitriol (primarily coming from various “Blame-America-First” crowds) about the “failure of the CIA.” They scream and whine about why the CIA didn’t do more to capture or kill Osama Bin Laden BEFORE September 11th- all the while also decrying the...
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I have no use for a man who hasn’t read Mark Twain.
July 2008
3 posts
Hot Air » Blog Archive » Basic right of... →
Dammit. This is gonna make my job much harder.
I use the quote I posted below to get me out of bed in the morning to go run. Or, to be more accurate, I used to use it. Now I don’t need the help. I’ve learned to love my nature and what it demands of me.
“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: ‘I have...”
– Marcus Aurelius - The Meditations
May 2008
9 posts
Parents fleeing armed home invaders leave child... →
Pathetic. Though if you read the article you will see that not all is as it seems…
13 Year Old Steals Dad's Credit Card to Buy... →
The most heart-warming story you will read today…
The difference between a beginner’s understanding and an expert’s is only 3 or 4 “why’s” deep.
“Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises heard by Legrasse’s...”
– The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft
“I wish I were not quite so lonely - and so poor. And yet I love both my...”
– The Listener by Algernon Blackwood
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours...”
– Tales of a Subsequent Child
Purpose
This tumblr will serve as a companion to my Twitter, www.twitter.com/el_fridlo . It will contain pictures, chats, quotes, and other random bits and artifacts from a life of adventure.
Post the First
Here begins the Tumblr of the infamous and mysterious El Fridlo