Bearded Book Review #5

Rating: A full beard (5/5)

"After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us."

Written Words #9

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Ms. Lee

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The Tallest Man On Earth

The Gardener

La Blogotheque Take Away Show

Book Shirts

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$25.00 from Miles to Go

Bukowski Bluebird. $25.00 from Miles to Go.

$10.00 from Threadless

Bearded Book Review #4

Rating: A Full Beard (5/5)

"I never even heard her voice."
And after a while:
"It is a strange grief."
Softly:
"To die of nostalgia for something you will never live."

Yoko Tanji Illustrations

Tree Umbrella

午睡の本

Hairy Monster and Me

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Michael C. Hsiung

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Sectioned Stairs

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Book Charms

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Mr. Silverstein

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Bearded Glory

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Secrets Within Pages

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Written Words #8

"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?"

                                             - W. Somerset Maugham

Little Elephant

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Written Words #7

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Wisdom

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Yum

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Celebrity Libraries

Mark Badgley and James Mischka

Mark Twain

Diane Keaton

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Simple Joy

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Written Words #6

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

                                      - Frederich Nietzsche

Book Spine Poetry

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How Would You Like It?

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Lewis

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Jen Lobo Paintings

The Tangle

Jealousy

Devil Whale

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Cleary Classic

Printed 1964.

Written Words #5

"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."

                                                    -  Franz Kafka

The Donkey Library

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Dalai Lama's 18 Rules for Living

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs:
   1. Respect for self
   2. Respect for others
   3. Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

Lost Things

Written and Directed by Angela Kohler and Ithyle Griffiths 

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Spice Handbook

Printed 1934. Sold for 10 cents.

Bearded Book Review #3

  Rating: Friendly Chops (4/5)

"I think: perhaps the sky is a huge sea of fresh water and we, instead of walking under it, walk on top of it; perhaps we see everything upside down and the earth is a kind of sky, so that when we die, when we die, we fall and sink into the sky."

Book Sculptures by Mike Stilkey

 

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Beard of the Month -- August 2011

Blackbeard

"A huge man with fiery eyes and a booming voice, he was fond of a scarlet cloak, and went into battle with lighted, slow-burning cannon fuses tucked into his hair, and six pistols slung across his chest. Some said he was fond of pouring gunpowder into his rum and setting it ablaze before downing it."

Read more about him here.