The Icepick, PublisherCat and the Alien Editor have packed up our shit and moved.
We're blogging over at The Icepick Cometh now.
The full address is http://theicepickcometh.wordpress.com. Don't worry, we took all your old favorite posts (and comments) with us.
(And in case you were wondering about our final poll — Beavis with a Spear vs. a Lion — you'll never guess that Beavis with a Spear won. Yes, it was unanimous. Thanks to all four of you that voted.)
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Crucial BBQ
A zócalo for the Crucial BBQ community,
with notes and news from The Icepick
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About Us
The Crucial BBQ, an homage to the Murphy's Law song, brought people together, from farther-flung locales as the years went on, to share in three days of philosophical conversation. It was a reunion, a moveable (and sometimes unmoveable) feast to reconnect and enjoy life.
Pete Hamill describes a zócalo as a kind of town plaza in Mexico where citizens gather each evening to discuss politics, sport and life in a rude democratic ideal amidst a sense of civic belonging. It is a place to learn, to share, and to understand. Hamill adds that he believes newspapers are a psychological zócalo for Americans.
I like to think of this blog as a psychological Crucial BBQ, a place to learn, to understand, to share and to enjoy.
Pete Hamill describes a zócalo as a kind of town plaza in Mexico where citizens gather each evening to discuss politics, sport and life in a rude democratic ideal amidst a sense of civic belonging. It is a place to learn, to share, and to understand. Hamill adds that he believes newspapers are a psychological zócalo for Americans.
I like to think of this blog as a psychological Crucial BBQ, a place to learn, to understand, to share and to enjoy.
In the Zócalo
Quotes
Some people call me lazy, but they are Wrong. … After I first learned it was possible to sleep late and go to work at Two in the afternoon, and still get Paid for it, I never did anything else.
—Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
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The cynical ones are the best companions. But the best of all are the cynical ones when they are still devout; or after; when having been devout, then cynical, they become devout again by cynicism.—Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon
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…each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.—Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro