Dispatches from The Mayan Empire

"All right, Popeye's here! Get your hands on your heads, get off the bar, and get on the wall"  - Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, The French Connection + + +  Of late things around here have been less than ideal. I prefer to not go into the daily minutiae of my difficulties. Suffice to say that thus far none of them have been caused directly by living in Mexico. So far, Mexico, its people, its culture, its food, and its shockingly polite drivers  have been very good to me. In happier news when I must cross the border into the forsaken lands known as South Texas there is a recently discovered beacon of hope I can always look forward to. About 18 kilometers or so (I have my GPS set to metric as that is how they roll south of the border, and I like to avoid speeding tickets in any country) from the border amidst a never ending sea of strip malls, tire salons, car washes... the dust.. the dust gets on and into everything, auto dealerships, pawn shops, and chain ...

While you, my faithful readers, await some actual content please feel free to enjoy this list of my favorite quotations. Some from the famous, the infamous, the intellectual, some from ancient history, some from my favorite films. The only real commonalities between them are that in one way or another they have meant something to me. Enjoy! + + +  "I am in the prime of my senility." - Brother Theodore . . . "Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean THEY aren't paranoid, too." - Faculty X slogan, Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery (Grant Morrison & Frank Quietly) . . . "One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real." - Klaus Kinski, Actor . . . "Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich." - Napoleon Bonaparte . . . "To die, to sleep, to sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there’s the rub, for in that sleep of death what dreams may come?"...