not falling down

(Incidentally: Today’s idiotcam© is the worst picture of my primary roommate–or possibly of anyone–ever taken. Idelight in it.)

I despise the use of quotes as a summation of anyone’s philosophy. They’re nearly all insipid anyway, and frankly, ifyour worldview fits into ten words your worldview is very small. This is why my favorite quote ever–which showsup on the front page sometimes–is “a witty saying proves nothing” (via Voltaire). I much prefer it to Emerson’s “Ihate quotations,” which is kind of just pointless self-reflexivity.

If you are a friend of mine and you still believe that quotations contain the sum and product of all human wisdom: nooffense.

Anyway, what I’m getting at is that when I read a quote in somebody’s EZBoard signature for the hundredth time, or seeit plastered across their site logo, or look at the front of my (otherwise wonderful) copy of Pieces of You, I can’t help buthate humanity a little bit. But. I read, somewhere, this great sentence that I have since been unable to find intwo weeks of Google searches. And to quote (!) John Constantine, “In two weeks I can get into anything–the Bank of England’s vaults, or a nun’sknickers.”

Except I still haven’t found the damn quote and it’s driving me crazy. The closest thing I have found is this song by Laurie Anderson. And while shesounds rather horrendously artsy-spacey, those lyrics are… well.

The quote was this: “Walking is the art of not falling down.” The song is close to that, at least, and the lyrics arein fact really good and right and. Um. They don’t encompass my worldview, but they do kind of relate to a lot of what Ithink about. Of what my journal is about.

So yes, I’m a huge hypocrite. But when or if this thing gets its own domain name (which I think it will, seeing as howit’s a lot better liked than my poor comic), it’s going to be notfallingdown.com.

and I said: uh oh
this is gonna be some day