...weekend routine; ode to Quill (sort of)...

Saturday we're having yet another gathering at our place. It'll be the usual awesome time - drinks, games, laughs, music, good friends...

Tonight, Heather and I are going to go see "Hide & Seek". After seeing "The Grudge", my expectations are being kept low to stave off disappointment in the current crop of horror flicks coming out.

@Heather: Tonight, it's you and me, sexy. Movies, dinner, games...the works. Love you!

Dave's birthday is fast approaching. I need to figure out what we're doing. He'll probably want a guy's event, and I shall accomodate.

Have a great weekend, everyone! Here's something for your Friday pleasure:

“Sonnet XCIV: They that have Power to Hurt and will do None” by William Shakespeare

They that have power to hurt and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow:
They rightly do inherit heaven's graces
And husband nature's riches from expense;
They are the lords and owners of their faces,
Others but stewards of their excellence.
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet
Though to itself it only live and die,
But if that flower with base infection meet,
The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

6] expense: waste.
14] ies ... weeds. This also occurs in the anonymous play (probably by Shakespeare), Edward III, II, i, 451.

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Quilled Tunes: “Passive” – A Perfect Circle

Quote of the Blog: “Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.” – David Starr Jordan

Literary Quote of the Blog: "If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment--as well as the prison." – Fyodor Dostoevsky. ‘Crime and Punishment’

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Word of the Blog: eclectic

eclectic \ih-KLEK-tik\ adjective

1 : selecting what appears to be best in various
doctrines, methods, or styles
*2 : composed of elements drawn from various sources;
also : heterogeneous

Example sentence:
Quilled Scripts has an eclectic mix of various features.

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And now, a serving of TRUTH:

Protect our court system & your rights as a citizen; sign the petition to stop Bush’s conservative judicial agenda.

Remembering Arguments Made 1,500 Deaths Ago

Are We In World War IV?

Kerry Pledges to Fight Bush on Alaska Oil

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On This Day In History – March 11th:

1302: According to Shakespeare, this is Romeo and Juliet's wedding day.

1865: General William T. Sherman takes Fayetteville, North Carolina, and destroys the aresenal there.

1888: From March 11 until March 14, the worst blizzard in history hits the eastern United States, paralyzing the region.

1941: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act. It gives the president authority to aid any nation whose defense is regarded as vital to the United States and to accept repayment.

1959: The play A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, is first performed in New York City. It stars Sidney Poitier and Claudia McNeil and goes on to win a New York Drama Critics Circle award.

1985: Mikhail Gorbachev is named first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.