Artists in Harakka - Happenings of an artists' workshop on a small island.
Club Unity - Progressive house and trance club run since 1996. Nights include special decorations, resident DJ Orkidea, possible live performances and surprises.
Nightclub DTM - The largest gay nightclub in Finland presents the music, pictures, events, news and information.
The Finn-Brit Players - Amateur dramatic society with photos and information about upcoming productions.
"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Arts and Entertainment Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Arts and Entertainment
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Arts and Entertainment "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Arts and Entertainment
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Arts and Entertainment Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Arts and Entertainment
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Arts and Entertainment There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Arts and Entertainment
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Arts and Entertainment Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Arts and Entertainment
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Arts and Entertainment "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Arts and Entertainment
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Arts and Entertainment Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Arts and Entertainment
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Arts and Entertainment The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Arts and Entertainment If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Arts and Entertainment
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Arts and Entertainment The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Arts and Entertainment
"The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Arts and Entertainment I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Arts and Entertainment
