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MORE HOLIDAY SPIRIT IN LONDON? It's only fair to tell you at the beginning that yes there is every bit as much holiday spirit here in London as we have in the States. It may be a shade bit less commercial, but I wouldn't bet on it. We were there for 10 days and shopped, stared, pointed, bowed, queued, pushed, and nearly froze looking at London and Londoners and it is obvious the Brits do enjoy all the winter holidays. If I had to add anything to that, it would be to say that the Londoner locals are friendlier and funnier than our big city people like New Yorkers or Los Angelinos. I've seen absolutely no mention of Dickens, or his Christmas characters but plenty of Spiderman and Homer Simpson, and there were even some guys dressed like Batman, Elvis and something else in the crowded tube (subway) last night. London is great this time of year.
SUBWAY SHOCK. It's been a surprise each time I turn a corner in the subway (tube) underground here to see huge color photo posters of a band called The Thrills. I've never heard of them, but their big hits, according to these great posters are "Santa Cruz" followed by "One Horse Town" (not referring to the same place I guess?) and "Big Sur". I've got to listen to these songs someday soon. I'll bet our Santa Cruz Convention and Visitors Bureau is all over the publicity that The Thrills are giving us. This world wide attention (unless these are negative songs) should be fabulous, and we couldn't buy such promotion.
FATHER CHRISTMAS AND HARRODS. Harrods Department store is an odd London institution. It's been here since 1849, has a staff of 4,000 and has 300 departments. I just realised that in that same year 1849, we in California were discovering gold in Sutter's Mill and trying to convince the Miwok Indians that God gave us all land rights forever. Harrods also has an Egyptian escalator going up and down all six floors. The escalator looks Egyptian too, more authentic than Hollywood Egyptian and not quite sort of Egypt Egyptian if you know what I mean. So after drawing odd reactions after asking where I could see Santa Claus I was told that the Father Christmas grotto was on the fourth floor. I went there and found that the queue was well over an hour wait, so I decided that yes, Christmas spirit or whatever, is alive and well here too. Harrods isn't loved totally by all Londoners. When we were here last year our London lecturer went into great detail about how Harrods is now owned by Mohammed Al Fayed, he's the father of Dodi Al Fayed who was with Princess Di when that terrible thing happened. So we were urged never to shop in Harrods, so I just looked, not shopped.
FCUK THIS! The shock of seeing FCUK on the very elegant storefront of a woman's clothes shop across Brompton Road from Harrods Department store was equaled by learning that FCUK stands for French Connection United Kingdom. Is that clever? Is that naughty? You can't tell here in London, probably both. I've been told by my daughter that there are French Connection UK shops in many USA malls, but what would I know?
LONDON LISTS. Folks over here are very big on lists, top ten, final 100, most popular anything to get readers or viewers to email or write in or call in just to see who wins. One BBC TV station is currently working on a list of the top 20 musicals of all time and last week it was announced that Lord Of The Rings was the most popular literature ever written. Gone with The Wind was #21. So this week the Charity Crisis Organisation commissioned a survey of 2,094 adults asking who is the most compassionate person from history or recent times. Here are the results and don't blame me I'm only the messenger (maybe I am snickering, but still just messaging) Most Compassionate: Mother Teresa (27%), Jesus Christ (20%), Diana, Princess of Wales (13%), Florence Nightingale, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Bob Geldorf were the other toppers. At the bottom running-joint last at 0% were Bill Gates, Elton John, Kofi Annan, Prince Charles, and Tony Blair. The survey also found out that kindness to animals (16%) was ranked more highly than giving money to a homeless person (11%).
LONDON: WHAT I DIDN'T KNOW. All the women and girls here have upturned noses. Chewing gum is no problem on the sidewalks in London, they ignore it and gum covers every square foot of everyplace. You can order a quite legal absinthe at the bar in the new Tate Modern Art Gallery. The bartender said they had the absinthe left over from a Picasso show, it was delicious. I'll fight the addiction later. The huge Eye Ferris wheel set in such a prominent place in downtown London looks out of place. It's like a non-classy money making carnival ride instead of some contribution to art or the community. London has gambling casinos, I didn't enter any so I have no idea of how like Las Vegas they are or what kind of gambling they allow.
PARKING IN LONDON? It has only dawned on me since returning to Santa Cruz that never once in either of my two visits to London did I see a parking lot. No parking garages, no place at all to park cars. I don't remember even seeing any car parking signs—nothing. If anyone knows someone to ask about this perplexing problem let me know. The public transportation does work beautifully, and the cabs are omnipresent, but damn, there's got to be some place to park cars.
HAPPY HOLIDAY NEWS. The new compact and tabloid sized London Times for December 18 says turkey and its trimmings are good for you. In a full page article Dr. T. Stuttaford states that sweets are medicinal, cheeses and nuts protect the arteries, turkey meat is healthy, cranberries are rich in antioxidants, sage is good for flatulent indigestion and colic, so are onions. Butter and cream are good sources of calcium, white wine has cardio-protective chemicals, and chocolate drinks, bon bons, and all other chocolates have been praised by many cultures as foods of the Gods and Goddesses. If that isn't happy holiday news from England I don't know what is. No matter what you're celebrating, or wherever you're celebrating it, have a Happy Holiday season.
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LONDON LOG. I've been here in London six days, my mate (she prefers that to significant other) and I staying in a friend's flat in Hampstead. Hampstead is to London like Carmel is to Santa Cruz in terms of prices, appearances and image. Hampstead, like London and Santa Cruz, has McDonalds, Starbucks, Blockbuster, and related tripe. But leaving Santa Cruz for awhile like this makes me wonder why little towns like Cambria near Santa Barbara can resist the onslaught of franchises and monster stores and actually prosper from it? Friends and relations are telling me that Cambria is prospering from not having a cookie cutter downtown to shop in. No Gap stores, no Urban Outfitters just unique one of a kind businesses and more and more visitors are going to Cambria just because it is so different. Why doesn't our city council take more control over which businesses are encouraged to open on Pacific? They could make sure the Redevelopment Agency has a sharper, more sensitive angle on development. More Cold Stone ice cream places, why?
FEWER CARS IN LONDON!! One year ago, London's mayor created a huge tax or license on driving or owning a car in London. I was here then and I'm back here now and what a difference!! It's still a mind-boggling concept, the driving on the left side of the street, but with so many fewer cars it's almost believable. We've traversed London many times in these last six days. We went to Brighton by train yesterday to see the famed Brighton Pier and let me tell you, public transportation is the way to go. We have never waited more than 6 minutes for any mode of transportation. You know how long the wait is because the electronic signs tell you exactly how long before the next tube, tram or double decker comes by. The subway ("tube") is more of an institution in London than Buckingham Palace. At least people take it more seriously and use it more often, and is definitely more popular. Taking the tube introduces you to just about everybody. Stately, comely, beautiful women definitely on their way to someplace important and they know it and people on their way to nowhere at all. School classes of ten French kids all bon soiring and gesturing just like in the movies and workers of yet one more class in this very broad concept of a metropolis. And speaking of Metropolis, London is much friendlier than New York, in case you haven't experienced or heard that yet.
ABOUT ABSINTH. The last time I was in England I resolved to find some absynthe (spelled both ways.) I don't care that much about absinth, but because it's illegal in the USA I've always wanted to try some. No luck last time here but this time a clerk in one huge liquor store drew me a map showing the tube stops to take to one little store that actually had a selection of absinthe. Here they are; the actual directions as to where to go in London to chose from about six labels of the forbidden liqueur.
Take the tube, the Northern Line heading to Edgware out of anywhere in downtown London. Get off at Chalk Farm station. Turn right at the top of the stairs (Chalk Farm is dark and lonely at night and very little action of any kind.) Go exactly three stores to Grape Sense. It's a wine store, face the clerk and cash register, turn around 180 degrees and on the very top shelf you'll see the selection of absinthe.
It's more bottles than I'd ever found or seen before. The prices are exorbitant and because I had only spent a few minutes online looking at labels, reputations, descriptions and expert's suggestions I didn't dare invest that much in a fifth. The prices ranged from $50- $80 So I bought a $15, 4 ounce bottle of Staroplzenecky Absinth from the Czech Republic. Not to be cute but it tastes (even with the sugar ritual) like a special blend of high octane premium Union Oil gasoline with a hint of asphalt steeped in things humans don't want to know about. It's terrible and is truly its own best argument against becoming addicted, ever. I've tasted other Absinths and they were fine and fun, but not good old Staroplzenecky's.
FOREIGN FILMS IN LONDON. England's film critics write a lot about how Hollywood blockbuster films have taken over all the screens, and they have. Master and Commander, Lord Of The Rings, Elf, Timeline, are on most London screens now the nearly omni-present Pirates of The Caribbean was on our United Flight coming over here, is for sale and rent on DVD and it too is still on big screens. Love Actually is also very big here and has been criticised for being another all white Brit comedy about Notting Ham snobs. We saw Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself at one of a very few repertory cinema theatres in London. It's playing at the Ritzy Cinema that is located just two minutes from the Brixton tube. Put Wilbur on your must see if possible list. There's no telling whether or not it'll get distributed in the USA. It's billed as a comedy and it has good funny material in it, but it also has plot twists and turns that'll make you squirm. It'll also make you think about the saga of Wilbur a long time after you leave the theatre. It's a Scotland Film Board production. I reviewed Ewan McGregor's newest film with Tilda Swinton titled "Young Adam" in Good Times this week so I won't repeat it here, but it too is film making and story telling at its best, look for both of those films.
RUMOURS. London papers say that Saddam Hussein's capture is all that Bush needed to guarantee his reelection - tell me that isn't true. It is no rumour that The Lord of The Rings trilogy won the BBC's Best of The Books contest. Londoners who read voted Lord #1, Pride and Prejudice #2, His Dark Materials (by Philip Pullman) #3, Harry Potter #5, and Gone With The Wind #21. Catch-22 was #11, War and Peace was #20. The staid old London Times now comes out in a tabloid format. It's sort of odd looking. It has many photos, is more sensational looking and even states in its hype "always competitive" and "it may not be big but it's clever". Most folks read the Metro on the tube - its free and very tabloidy.
QUOTES TO CLOSE. "I would have made a good Pope." -Richard Nixon, "Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." -Jean-Paul Sartre. And even if you find yourself in England this one applies, "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." -Albert Einstein.
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LONDON, AND THE 12 DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS. It is hard for me to believe but because I saw a great sale on United Airlines tickets from SFO to London in the San Francisco Chronicle for only $164 and took up a good friends offer on his flat in Hampstead, my significant other and I are now off to London for 12 days. One of the exciting London experiences I managed to put together online is a special visit to the Everyman Cinema in Hampstead. The Everyman Cinema proudly states that it is the world's oldest art film movie house. It opened in 1933 with a screening of Rene Clair's second sound film Le Million. They're having a 70th birthday party while we're there. We have an invitation to their party which includes mince meat pie, champagne and even gallery seats. I also have an interview with the owner so I'll be able to pass on some news and views of how to successfully run an art house in Britain. We missed the Tate last time so we'll hopefully see that too and maybe even The Eye which was closed due to big time winds. I'll be emailing the next couple of columns from over there so do excuse the accent.
LEMPERT VERSUS SIMITIAN, the sequel. Both Joe Simitian and Ted Lempert were at the People's Democratic Club of Santa Cruz County meeting last Thursday. Everyone agreed that both guys are fine candidates. They debated a vote to endorse was taken, I was one of the vote counters and Joe Simitian won the endorsement by just one vote. Proxy votes were not allowed like they had at the Democratic Women's Club where Simitian also won their endorsement. Many PDC members protested privately that because members could legally cast a vote and leave was the reason that Simitian won. Members Mike Rotkin, Emily Reilly, Cynthia Mathews voted and left. Ed Porter and Scott Kennedy came, voted and stayed. Steve Shender, a recovering journalist by his words, spoke on behalf of General Clark, so did Fred Scimone. Nobody mentioned Nader or Kucinich or anybody else for president. Ted Lempert told why and how he got the only Sierra Club endorsement. Paul Elerick spoke about how Ted Lempert voted for a campaign limit on money spent, and how important it is that Senators Byron Sher, John Vasconcellos, and John Burton all support Lempert. Both Lempert and Simitian support the death penalty which surprised me. Both said things like only in extreme circumstances or only in special cases for which I guess we have to be thankful. Aside from that they both seemed like decent fellows. I'm definitely voting for Ted Lempert for State Senate. Ted Lempert was at the SCAN meeting on Monday night Dec. 8th. Joe Simitian was invited at the same time, but didn't show. Not enough SCAN folk had heard Simitian speak so there was no endorsement. Christopher Krohn gave an impassioned speech and said he is endorsing Lempert. SCAN members went on to discuss Widening of Highway one, Eastern access, The Santa Cruz City sales tax measure, and even the Downtown Plaza issue, of all things.
SOME OTHER FILMS. Luther is a polite film. I mean that whenever people make films about religious folk like Martin Luther they're usually polite and not too human. We do get to see Luther in bed, if that turns you on. We do get to see him nailing his theses to the door, that too could turn you on. But if you're not aware of how far Christians will go OR more importantly if you've missed good old Peter Ustinov chew up scripts and crypts see this film. Peter Ustinov was one of my early favorite actors in Quo Vadis and that was a mere 52 years ago! Timeline is a foolish, cliché ridden Hollywood attempt to deal with time travel again. I hope somebody solves the problem of what happens if you go back in time and kill your great great grandmother so we don't have to suffer that fate worse than death over and over again. Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett succeeded in not laughing over the miserable script and plot in The Missing. You must have read by now that Tommy Lee plays a white guy trying to be an Indian who's chasing real Indians led by a white guy who have kidnapped Blanchett's teenage daughter so they could sell her to the Mexicans. Does Tommy Lee save her? Does Thomas Kinkade paint those previously mentioned sunsets? Does the Pope like little Martin Luther?
ALMAR SAFEWAY PICKETING. Nora Hochman announced at the PDC meeting that the Safeway strike that is really affecting the Los Angeles area is moving north. There's going to be a picket line at the Mission/Almar Safeway store on Wednesday December 10 from 4 to 6 p.m. It was amazing to see how effectively the strike was working in LA over the Thanksgiving holiday. While down there I went to an old favorite Japanese market at Venice and Centinela just to get some desperately needed last minute celery, plus a new ear cleaner and some Japanese toothpaste which I'd never seen before. Down there Von's, Ralph's, Pavilions, and of course Safeways are all being picketed and the picket lines are being respected. Skipping ahead, I'm wondering when or if Wal-Mart will decide to move into Santa Cruz County. Will our supes or city council let them? You've been reading the many, many articles on what Wal-Mart's been doing to not just our economy but Mexico's as well. So which side are we on brothers and sisters, do we care anymore?
THE LAST SAMURAI. Roger Ebert quoted Pauline Kael recently as saying something like there are few films made that qualify as great art, so unless you like trash etc. The Last Samurai starring Tom Cruise is big Hollywood trash and lots of fun to watch. It's hokey and deals with honor about like Thomas Kinkade deals with sunsets. It does remind us what a master dramatist Kurosawa was. Like the great Samurai films this Cruise moneymaker has plenty of stabbings, blood, gore and bloody horses falling down and flying flags but it's still heavy hokum. Go just for the fun, because it'll be nothing at all on your monitor if you wait and rent it.
SANTA CRUZ, THE NEXT TEN YEARS, THE LAST TEN YEARS. It was with the very first First Night back in December of 1994 that Santa Cruz Community Television went on the air live from their Pacific Avenue studios. Executive Director Jeff Dunn and I are going to do a live broadcast this New Year's Eve (December 31) from 6 to 8 p.m. We'll be talking and interviewing folks who have important ideas about what's happened to Santa Cruz City and County in the last ten years AND what can we expect to happen in the next ten years? There'll also be some lively entertainment and as of this writing we expect to be taping the program and playing it back later in the New Years Eve on either channel 26 or 27 so stay tuned. I'll let you know when guests are confirmed.
TWO IMPORTANT FILMS. The Weather Underground is at The Nick and The Revolution Will Not Be Televised opens there Friday, December 12. Both of these films are documentaries about revolutions and social unrest and taking over the government. In these times it's almost impossible to leave the theatre and not wonder if we'll ever have a revolution here in the USA. Most people I know say no, we're too much a nation of believing sheep. Watching these films does make you wonder however. Weather Underground is about The Weathermen who split from the Students for a Democratic Society or S.D.S. This was the document of the 60's right here. Berkeley, Santa Cruz, San Francisco all had their protests. Ask old timers about Guv Reagan's visit to UCSC, ask progressive Santa Cruzans about the police and FBI in the upstairs windows on Pacific Avenue filming protests at the Post office, not a happy time at all. Go see the truly shocking The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. This film is more exciting than any Hollywood foreign takeover coup extravaganza. It's about the Presidency of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez. It shows in detail how corporate media and the military state worked together to stage a coup to take back the flow of money to the wealthy from the oil interests. It's hot and current and once again makes you wonder how far our CIA, FBI and our president will go. See these films if at all possible.
INTRODUCING FUNKLIN MARSHALL. I decided to change Franklin Marshall's name to Funklin. It's only fair since he persists in misspelling LONDON Nelson's name even in his recently published children's book by the same name. Funklin asked me the other day if I documentation on which North Carolina town LONDON was born in, I thought I did but Phil Reader's Nelson history says that London was born on May 5, 1800 in a North Carolina slave cabin on a cotton plantation owned by the William Nelson family. Mr. Nelson named the other slaves Canterbury, Marlborough and Cambridge. Reader writes virtually all of the primary sources in archives located in Santa Cruz and El Dorado counties in California and Knox County Tennessee list this man as London Nelson. Phil goes on to call the change to Louden as a simple case of slipshod scholarship. I agree that getting Bush out of office and ending the depression are more important matters, but do keep LONDON Nelson in mind once in a while.
QUOTES IN CLOSING. Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -Henry Ford. I suggest you read that one over again, I didn't get it the first few times. A clever man commits no minor blunders. -Goethe. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. -Dwight D. Eisenhower. And just for fun, There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. -Frank Zappa.
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CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE CLUES. Late breaking rumors say that Mark Primack is definitely running for city council again, we are all guessing that all the incumbents are running too. Ryan Coonerty has been the most forthright in his plans and is running. Katherine Beiers hasn't made any statements, and Christopher Krohn when pressed stated "I'm very seriously considering it".
LA's SHIMMERING NEW DISNEY HALL. The Los Angeles Philharmonic has an amazing looking (from the outside anyway) place to play - The Walt Disney Concert Hall. It's between First and Second Streets and Hope and Grand Avenue. Or across from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, kitty corner from the Stanley Mosk Courthouse. On my Thanksgiving LA visit to daughter, son in law, and grandson George III we walked all around the outside, went inside and gaped at all the dull looking interior of everything but the auditorium. No tour will let you into the auditorium!! They tell you the auditorium is in use, then you get to see the closed circuit TV clearly showing an empty auditorium. It's well worth driving or walking around the outside of the hall and appreciating just what Frank Gehry's now trademark shining steel is covering. The reason not to tour is that to park, if you're not lucky, costs $17 and the audio tours led by John Lithgow are $10 and again: you can't get inside the auditorium and that's the really big deal. But the LA Philharmonic under the direction of Esa-Pekka Salonen apparently has never sounded better. Try their website (which was also frustrating) at www.musiccenter.org.
WIDENING HIGHWAY ONE, THE SANTA BARBARA SOLUTION??? On that same holiday trip southward I got to thinking about the similarity between Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara: college towns on highway 1 with traffic problems. Anyone who has ever driven 1/101 through Santa Barbara knows that the widening of their section of the highway made little difference. Going south, and again returning north, I spent long times in stopped, bumper to bumper traffic. I have no idea what that widening project cost, I do know it seemed to take forever as I visited the southland many times in the last few years. Three cheers for the Gene Bregman and Associates of S.F. survey that shows locals in all the supervisorial districts are against spending $300,000,000 to widen that section from the Fishhook to State Park drive in Aptos. We also see Jim Conklin's name in the Sentinel report as a member of the Citizens for Improved Transportation. Jim's a paid consultant who lives in Stockton and works for the Santa Cruz County Business Council. The Business Council, in case you forgot, consists of Granite Rock, Lonestar Cement, The Boardwalk, Dominican Hospital, and other good old boy companies who support development and all related schemes.
GOOD MOVIE, BAD SANTA, WRONG THEATRE. If you liked the Crumb and Ghost World films and don't believe in Santa Claus than Billy Bob Thornton's Bad Santa is your kind of film. It's dark, jaundiced, painfully funny, caustic, full of *uck words and masterfully clever. The problem is that when it is playing at Cinema 9 folks believe it's a typical Hollywood product. Cute, fully resolved, charming and not too bad for children - it is none of these and audiences with crying children leave, not appreciating the brilliance of the script and concept. It should be at the Del Mar or The Nick. But do go quickly because I'll bet typical audiences at the Cinema 9 won't support the negative fun of the film too long.
OXNARD DETOUR. It was an exciting trip to LA Thanksgiving week detour-wise. The formerly miserable on and off ramp detour at Prunedale and 101 has been finished, and that's about 12 seconds faster now. Then down in Oxnard it became heaven-like, because the miles long detour going south is complete and so you do save as much as 20 minutes going around sod growing acreage. It was such a treat driving past Oxnard that I resolved not to make fun of the town name ever again. Then driving northward on the way back home I really hit the worst detour ever. It actually takes you through a shopping center through two complete 360 degree circles and into traffic patterns that convince you you'll never see humanity again. Warning: allow extra time driving north on 101 nearing Oxnard.
GOTHIKA. The critics damned Gothika all to hell. I thought it was worth attending. Halle Berry plays her lead role with a real talent and that role of an insane/sane psychiatrist wasn't easy. It's a ghost story and it's fiction, so enjoy a very well done scary film. Not as scary as Alien, but almost.
CHARLES PEET AND GUESS THE DATE. Mr. Charles Peet is an area theatre and film critic, former restaurateur and world news follower. He asks the following question and would probably offer a prize if we could figure a way to award it. The question: On what date will the weapons of mass destruction be found? Clue; the trick is to figure exactly enough days before the presidential election when Bush can announce the weapons discovery and not allow time for the truth to be revealed. More later.
CLARK KERR's LOCAL CONNECTION. Clark Kerr was a wonderful Chancellor of UC Berkeley. He was chancellor when I was there. What locals may not know about recently deceased Clark Kerr is that he was married to Al Smith's sister. This was the Al Smith who owned Orchard Supply Hardware and half of Swanton Road. Al was also my landlord for many years and told me about Kerr. Kerr, during the toughest times of the student uprisings at UC Berkeley in the 60's, would come down to Al's place on Swanton and rest and think and stay awhile. Al Smith later became a UCSC trustee or benefactor. He also gave his land on Swanton Road to Cal Poly. Cal Poly is systematically ruining their land heritage on Swanton and somebody should look into this. Should we suggest maybe some permits or at least public awareness of how they've changed the flow of Big Creek?
SANDY LYDON's NEW TRIPS AND TOURS. Thankfully, Sandy Lydon is still giving classes even though he retired from Cabrilho. These are short classes on weekends in 2004, no tests and no credits. Go to www.sandylydon.com and read the details. He's got one on our North Coast (you could ask him about Fred Swanton and if Cal Poly is still going to build their amphitheatre.). He's giving one on San Juan Bautista and the filming of Vertigo. (Ask him to point out the thin wires around the necks of the statues on the Mission altar to allow for earthquakes.) There's also one about Fr. Junipero Serra (ask him about what really happened to Padre Quintana from Santa Cruz Mission and what he lost on a dark and stormy night!!) Bruce MacGregor, an authority on narrow gauge railroads, will join Sandy on a special trip walking the San Lorenzo rail lines. (Ask Bruce whatever happened to the town of Folger up in Swanton Country. Yes, that coffee Folger.) Go see Sandy's website quickly, because probably some of those classes are full already, and the rest will be soon.
QUOTES TO CLOSE. "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." -Oscar Wilde. "We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time." -Vince Lombardi. "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." -Paul Erdos. And just in case you're thinking about running for city council: "If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." -George Bernard Shaw.
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