"[insert sensitive, insightful and and quaint notions about war, peace and man's will to power, add sober attempt to reconcile complex feelings towards current international situation]. Anyway, I hope they have some cool documentary footage when this is all over."
--In Conversation

Uselysses
Daniel Lord Foster


It little profits that an idle fool,
With all the world’s virtue and vice to learn,
Should waste away in secondary school
And linger ‘til the worse does take its turn.
For little I have seen and less I’ve known,
Playing neither hero nor villain’s part;
Never have God’s graces or wrath been shown
To me, nor have I gone with hungry heart.
But I know the texts of a thousand arts
Begin and end with one sacrosanct word.
And, echoing from all bloody ramparts,
Its melodious, doomsday tolls are heard.
So I reach for where the western stars shine
With but that word, “love”, and fair Madeline.

Why my conversations are the best ever:
(The names have been changed to protect the innocent)

FOSTERKID1: The Economist this week had a picture from a protest of a guy holding up a sign that said "Bush Has a Small Penis"
YaleBoy123: well i'll be damned... i DO have something in common with george w.
FOSTERKID1: nice
YaleBoy123: oh, so did you ever remember what exactly it was that you wanted to tell me?
FOSTERKID1: Fuckin A, no. I wish I had a dedicated line to you so every time I read something interesting in a book I can make some wry comment.
YaleBoy123: like your batman to my robin?
FOSTERKID1: "Holy Obnoxious Op-Ed Batman!"