With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
I enjoy paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
2001-11-25 - 1:54 a.m.
This is the third entry I've posted tonight. I wrote guest entries for Carey, and Shelly. I hope I have the energy to write this, I had a fun day.
The plumber came this morning and fixed all the problems. I'll actually be able to sleep tonight and not be kept up by the insistent drip, drip of the shower.
Somehow the morning went very quickly and I just had time to make Frances' birthday card before I left to meet her. This is only the second time I've seen Frances in person and the first time we really spend any time alone together. We just had desert at a coffee shop and talked. I brought her books for her birthday. Can anyone guess the name of one of them? All those who couldn't name Jurgen please see me after class. You obviously have not been doing your reading. The other book as I mentioned yesterday was C.S. Lewis' space trilogy in one volume. One of the things we first bonded over was Tolkien and Lewis was Tolkien's best friend. I was surprised but happy to discover that she had never read them. She bought me Chocolate!!! A giant double bar of English chocolate and a small Swiss chocolate Christmas tree. You can never go wrong giving me chocolate.
We didn't do anything but talk but I had a great time. We talked about Tolkien, Fruvous, music, England, America, Poets, panoply of our favorite topics. The coffee shop was on 12th street and I then walked her up to Penn Station where she had to catch a train to Jersey. She is staying there with her sister. She just made the train on time.
After that I had time to kill till the Kennedys show. In the email they said the show started at 8 so I planned on getting to the venue at 7. I ended up walking back down to 14th street to go to the Holiday Market in Union Square. Last year I bought most of my holiday gifts there. Today I just checked the place out but I'm sure I'll end up getting lots of things there. The problem as usual for me is that there are some people I found 10 things I could get for them and others none at all. I don't think that telling someone that I gave a gift in their name to Carey is really a good gift.
I made it back to the Cutting Room, the venue at just about 7. When I got there I found out that the show started at 8:30 and that doors would be shortly before then. Now I had more time to kill. I walked back down to 11th street this time to check out the Strand and Forbidden Planet. I walked back up to the venue on 24th street and got there around 8:10. They were still doing the sound check and really didn't let us in till 8:25.
I ended up sitting with the second person on the line to get in, Bernadette. She is a big time Kennedys fan and also a Nields Nooker. I had lots of fun talking to her about music, Stuyvesant, her alma mater, and various sundry. One of those sundries was Lawrence. As soon as I found out she was Nooker I knew she'd know him. She knows the Kennedys pretty well and Maura came over to talk to us. That is always fun. Bernadette is going to send me some CDs of live shows by the Kennedys and Früvous. I might have made a friend tonight.
Maura is the most beautiful woman that I see in concert by a long shot. I often talk about women dressing like a friend of mine. Most of my female friends dress very casually. They tend to wear jeans and t-shirts. Their shoes are sandals, sneakers, and boots. Their clothes tend to be loose and comfortable, not tight and sexy. I have no objections to dressing sexy. I happen to enjoy looking at it. I also don't judge people by the way they dress but this is the way things usually work out. Maura dresses just the opposite yet she doesn't come across that way. She might dress like a green fur girl (don't ask) but you can tell she isn't one. I think it is the huge smile that is always on her face. She'd fit in nicely with my friends. Now if I could only get Carey to wear her Maura dress...
I'm back from that daydream. Their set was short but great. They did several songs from their next album. It's always great to hear new material. I realized tonight that I'll be able to see their show at the Turning Point next week. I originally had plans then and forgot all about the show.
Sharing the bill with them was Mary Lee's Corvette. I had never seen them before but they were pretty good. Bernadette has to get up early so she didn't stay for them. I knew one song by them, the lesbian anthem, The Status with Gladys , A great song. Either FUV played it or Vin did before he came to WFUV.
After the show I walked back to Penn Station on 32nd Street. I figure that I ended up walking about 5 miles today, not bad.
The only time I spent today with a friend was my time with Frances. Despite this I was never lonely. I was feeling really good all day. Let's see how tomorrow goes.
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