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Doggsbone Studios - Owned by Charlie Grams it is a working art studio, the studio is a unique mixture of rustic old world charm and digital images.

Liz Niven - Information about this writer and poet including biography and contact details.

Locked Club - A monthly club which specialises in house and techno. Includes message board and photographs.

blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -- Colin Wilson Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick Arts and Entertainment You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Arts and Entertainment Does anal retentive have a hyphen? -- Seen on a t-shirt Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Arts and Entertainment You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Arts and Entertainment A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp Arts and Entertainment I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Arts and Entertainment "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Ninety percent of the game is half mental. -- Yogi Berra Arts and Entertainment She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. -- Joan Crawford Arts and Entertainment Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock I am become death, shatterer of worlds. -- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson Arts and Entertainment It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland Arts and Entertainment The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. -- Oscar Wilde "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name." -- Mike Binder Arts and Entertainment "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. -- G. K. Chesterton blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Arts and Entertainment I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags dev "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. -- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Now is the time for all good men to come to. -- Walt Kelly I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words Arts and Entertainment All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud Arts and Entertainment That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. -- Rose Kennedy Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. -- Samuel Butler In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron Arts and Entertainment Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to- resurrection" coverage. He later a "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli Arts and Entertainment
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