December 14, 2004


Quitting The Paint Factory: On The Virtues of Idleness. I haven't read this yet because...um...I'm too busy at work. Update:

Leisure is permissible, we understand, because it costs money; idleness is not, because it doesn't. Leisure is focused; whatever thinking it requires is absorbed by a certain task: sinking that putt, making that cast, watching that flat-screen TV. Idleness is unconstrained, anarchic. Leisure – particularly if it involves some kind of high-priced technology – is as American as a Fourth of July barbecue. Idleness, on the other hand, has a bad attitude. It doesn't shave; it's not a member of the team; it doesn't play well with others. It thinks too much, as my high school coach used to say. So it has to be ostracized.

The whole thing reads like this. What fun!
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Just as this space was recalling bygone days of putting random living crap in an terrarium and feeding it other random living things, suddenly the usual source screams at us: Frog eats mouse! Not quite as cool as Boa constrictor crushes and then eats a hamster—nor as lame as one doesn't—but it'll do for now.
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