as much as I hate shallow philomosophical shite, I came across the following in Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground -- "which is better, cheap happiness, or noble suffering? Well, which is better?" FITE --
― divya noguchi (divya), Monday, 31 March 2003 05:45 (twenty-three years ago)
what's better, handjob from a true love or really good oral sex from a stranger?
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 31 March 2003 05:52 (twenty-three years ago)
"which is better, cheap happiness, or noble suffering? Well, which is better?" FITE which is worse -- a false dichotomy, or actually living yer life (which, unless yer life really sucks or yer bi-polar, will be somewhere in between these extremities)?
and that such a cheap, false dichotomy was in notes from the underground only underscores why i've come to hate Dostoyevski and his literary offspring so much.
― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 31 March 2003 06:05 (twenty-three years ago)
I guess everyone just thinks a happy genius is just totally showing off and rubbing everybody else's noses in it.
― jel -- (jel), Monday, 31 March 2003 08:37 (twenty-three years ago)
Cher No Longer a Michael Jackson Fan
The Associated Press
Mar 31 2003 3:40AM
RADNOR, Pa. (AP) - Cher is no longer a Michael Jackson fan.
``I don't really care what he does to his face. He could just erase it as far as I'm concerned,'' Cher told TV Guide for its April 5 issue. ``But I don't like him anymore. And it's because of his children. I cannot imagine putting my children through what he put his children through,'' Cher says.
Though she once considered Jackson a ``great artist,'' she said she has been turned off by all of the negative publicity about him. She said she was also disappointed by his behavior last year at American Bandstand's 50th anniversary show, in which she also appeared.
``He had this child rolled up in a blanket, and I was thinking, 'What kind of life is this?''' she said.
``Then I saw the recent documentary on him, and I thought, 'This guy is nuts. He shouldn't have these children,''' Cher says. ``As an artist, I can't fault his art because he was brilliant ... I wouldn't buy anything now.''
03/31/03 03:37 EST
― Vik, Monday, 31 March 2003 09:44 (twenty-three years ago)