I really really really miss my Canadian friends. Here is a picture of my friends and ex-landladies from Victoria and their dog Aries.
They inspired me to live a more light, green and happy life. And they taught me that there is no age and gender limit to love, do something important, and to care about people and the environment.
Love you girls.
Here is a Mario Quintana's poem to you:
"So what if things are
beyond our reach!
No reason for not wishing
them to be ours…
How joyless would
our paths be, were it not
for the distant presence
of the stars!"
Das utopias(On Utopias) in Espelhomágico(Magic Mirror)
Copiado da comunidade Calvin and Hobbes do Facebook
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Paul Garvin (South Carolina) wrote on February 10, 2009 at 9:58am
(...) As a kid, I don't think I ever realized how fortunate I really was...at least as far as entertainment went. It was so easy to take TV shows like Animaniacs, Looney Tunes, and Batman: The Animated Series for granted. But one needs only to look at any Sunday paper nowadays to find the biggest quality drop from my youth to kids' today...the comics.
Comics like Peanuts and The Far Side were treasured by kids and adults, respectively. But, there was one comic that transcended age entirely. There was one comic that you could literally read one strip at age 5 and laugh hysterically...and then read the same strip at age 20 and laugh hysterically. And here's the crazy part: for absolutely different reasons. Welcome to the magical world of Calvin and Hobbes.
You see, the comic that actually pulled off this incredible feat was packed with some of the best (and least noticed) satire and black humor that I can think of. Reading it as a kid on Sundays, I vaguely recall wagon rides gone wrong, long conversations during a walk in the woods, and some bizarre-looking snowmen. However, I rarely look back at the middle parts of those strips. You see, after the two-panel intros (which served as a protest against standardized formatting in Sunday comic pages, in which comic writers were asked to include a certain amount of "dead space" to allow it to fit in an allocated slot), there were usually 5-6 panels of dialogue. And usually, kids didn't really read much of it; we just glossed over to the part where Calvin and Hobbes would tumble off a cliff, get into a fight, or deliver a catchy pun. Unfortunately, that meant we missed out on some of the most profound quotes ever delivered in the medium (and in popular entertainment).
So below, I've listed several of the least-noticed quotes from this outstanding series.
"I should always be saying, 'My life is better than I ever imagined it would be, and it's only going to improve'". (Calvin)
"The problem with you, Hobbes, is you're always at a loss for words." (Calvin)
"I've found that saves many a friendship." (Hobbes)
"I wonder why we think faster than we can speak." (Calvin)
"Probably so we can think twice." (Hobbes)
"Without an appreciation for grace and beauty, there's no pleasure in creating things and no pleasure in having them!" (Calvin)
"Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?" (Calvin)
"That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder." (Calvin)
"It's not denial. I'm just very selective about the reality I accept." (Calvin)
"The problem with being avant-garde is knowing who's putting on who." (Calvin)
"Do you think babies are born sinful? That they come into the world as sinners?" (Calvin)
"No, I think they're just quick studies." (Hobbes)
"A good compromise leaves everybody mad." (Calvin)
"History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices." (Calvin)
"It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end." (Hobbes)
"If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?" (Hobbes)
"We seem to understand the value of oil, timber, minerals, and housing, but not the value of unspoiled beauty, wildlife, solitude, and spiritual renewal." (Calvin)
"We need to start putting prices on the priceless." (Hobbes)
"I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life." (Hobbes)
Surplus: Terrorized into Being Consumers
Documentário do sueco Erik Gandini, procura mostrar a situação da sociedade atual, enfeitiçada pelo consumismo. (Fonte: http://devaneiosdeumpindense.blogspot.com/2008/01/relatrio-do-documentrio-surplus.html)
If God had a name, what would it be
And would you call it to his face
If you were faced with him in all his glory
What would you ask if you had just one question
And yeah yeah God is great yeah yeah God is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home
If God had a face what would it look like
And would you want to see
If seeing meant that you would have to believe
In things like heaven and in jesus and the saints and all the prophets
And yeah yeah god is great yeah yeah god is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home
He's trying to make his way home
Back up to heaven all alone
Nobody calling on the phone
Except for the pope maybe in rome
And yeah yeah God is great yeah yeah God is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
What if god was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home
Just trying to make his way home
Like a holy rolling stone
Back up to heaven all alone
Just trying to make his way home
Nobody calling on the phone
Except for the pope maybe in rome
*****
Se Deus tivesse um nome
Qual seria e você
o chamaria assim?
Se você estivesse na presença dele
Com toda glória d'Ele
O que você perguntaria se você
Apenas uma pergunta?
Yeah,Yeah, Deus é ótimo
Yeah,Yeah, Deus é bom
Yeah,Yeah,Yeah,Yeah,Yeah
E se Deus fosse um de nós?
Apenas um vagabundo como um de nós?
Apenas um estranho no onibus
tentando ir pra casa
Se Deus tivesse um rosto
Com o que pareceria e iria
querer ver se visse teria
que acreditar em coisas como céu
e Jesus e nos santos e em todos seus profetas
Yeah,Yeah, Deus é ótimo
Yeah,Yeah, Deus é bom
Yeah,Yeah,Yeah,Yeah,Yeah
E se Deus fosse um de nós?
Apenas um vagabundo como um de nós?
Apenas um estranho no onibus
tentando ir pra casa
Volte para o céu sozinho
Ninguém chamará no telefone
Aceite para o Papa talvez em Roma
Yeah,Yeah, Deus é ótimo
Yeah,Yeah, Deus é bom
Yeah,Yeah,Yeah,Yeah,Yeah
E se Deus fosse um de nós?
Apenas um vagabundo como um de nós?
Apenas um estranho no onibus
tentando ir pra casa
Como uma santa pedra errante
Volte para o céu sozinho
Tentando ir pra casa
Ninguém chamará no telefone
Aceite para o Papa talvez em Roma
