[…] the young warriors now frequently fasten bell-buttons, or pieces of tinkling brass to their maccaseenes, and to the outside of their boots, instead of the old turky-cock-spurs which they formerly used.

I think we don’t pay enough attention to the fact that Michael Jackson, for much of his career, was asexual. And it’s almost as if he was trying to get to some sort of araciality in terms of his presentation, when you think about, you know, someone wearing a mask, someone trying to morph — I mean, Madonna has done it very well without necessarily having to have cosmetic surgery, but this kind of figure that morphs into something else as time goes on.

China chose resistance. This resistance brought suffering that affected each individual. It gave even the young children national consciousness. It put the marching song of the soldiers upon their lips. The children cry the fulfillment of a prediction when they sing Chi-lai, chi-lai . . .—Arise, arise . . . ten thousand with one heart.

Well, in fact most of the time it ain't so bad, and even kind of sightly when you look at me, an old guy writing poetry in the waiting room at Hancock Airport, all these eyeballers that think I'm wigged or something.