‘The Secret’  + ‘And so it is’

Apparently they’re going to make a movie out of the not-at-all-related-to-this-website book called ‘The Secret’, for which you may read my favorite review of the book here ‘The secret saved my life‘ by Ari Brouilette. My cursory plumbing of the internets to figure out why the phrase ‘and so it is’ is related to the movie turned up …well, this blog. So there you go. Something must be brewing, but apparently it’s still a secret.

This blog is likely the top result (hey!), because in a fit of guarded, privacy-hoarding introversion I named this blog ‘secret’, and quite coincidentally I have a category here called ‘And so it is‘. Which has a few nice things in it, if I do say so myself.

Actually, I’m quite sure I’m using the power of The Secret right now (and some basic keyword fixing) to acquire all traffic related to this search query right now! Because – well, let’s be honest – it makes me giggle. So there you go, there is a connection.

Just to really go the full length, here’s a picture of The Secret, and so it is. Which, after you’ve viewed it, will allow this search query, and this blog entry, to remain just as obscure and, I don’t know, secretive? As it was upon your arrival:

Secret - And so it is

I really enjoyed this letter from JD Salinger regarding the denial of movie rights for Catcher in the Rye. via Letters of Note. You cannot say the man did not care about his characters.

“Not to mention, God help us all, the immeasurably risky business of using actors.”

There’s an excellent post over at  Fake Steve Jobs about what, I expect, we all consciously or instinctively know about our culture right now. Fake Steve’s rant is inspired by this great comparison of the fears of Aldous Huxley vs George Orwell in comic form, the words of which were taken from the book Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Stuart McMillen, which will definitely be going on my must-read list.

Brave New World is still one of the most amazing books I’ve ever read.

I recently finished Feed by M.T. Anderson, which was an incredibly adept, modern take on Brave New World and highly recommended.

Now then, I’m off to play Risk on my iPhone. And did I mention it’s efffking hot here?

WTF? I live in Portland! The city will drown in a sea of heat wave.

Mmmmm, Sounds delicious.

As an after-dinner entertainment/repentance, they all wailed and beat themselves with chains.

It’s been a little crazy around here lately, and when I showed this to Laura, she said this was exactly how she felt.

I’m the one in the back.

Take your meaning however you find most appropriate at time of reading. Most probably your fortune is being told right here, right now, in the picture below.

Pic: A co-worker pulled out an impromptu free-style game of scrabble at work today while I was reading the paper. This obviously calls for the creation of a Serendipity category around here. Cheers!

Now, off to find my neti pot since it sounds like you folks on the internets have some kind of cold/sinus infection and now my nasal passages are having a hypochondriacical reaction to it.

We’ve found a very nice home for about 4 of our Gumball Poetry machines, as we slowly retire the project.

Lex – who will be turning the project into Portland Poetry News and will be running a newspaper(!) out of 2″ capsules! Awesome.

URL to follow when I have one.

Also, Small Beer Press has a retired Gumball Poetry machine in Northampton, and when they ring me back, the Capsule Studio and Gallery will also get one.

I wish people told me their dreams every day – sort of like that old hippy book, The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You. It didn’t hurt that in my friend David’s dream, I’d just inherited 400 million dollars. Apparently he was a bit confused why I refused to change my life very much. Phh. In your dreams, man!

I definitely need an official category for 400 million dollars.

I have this sort of problem too. Just the other day I lost my glasses for probably the fourth time in a matter of 45 minutes. It was unexpected, of course.