These words won't make you a success, but at least you'll be well remembered when you're gone.

Save the plastic buckets and shovels for someone else, in America this is how we play in the sandbox!

My first guess was that Dics was the name of his dog, but now I think he doesn't know how to spell penis. I'm just not sure.

If it really does have a new sound, nobody will be able to hear it.

I don't think that's what he's doing, Wonder Woman, but go ahead and think that.

Lots of luck with that, fella. You're up against a crime fighting ghost cop!

Fritz Lang directed fantastic movies that had fantastic poster art. Here's 'Woman In The Moon'

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Weary of Bond never returning his fancy equipment in one piece, Q gets his revenge on 007 by secretly replacing his Walther PPK with a Nintendo Zapper

Happiness is waking to the sound of garbage trucks arriving early Monday morning and remembering that you brought your bins to the curb Sunday night.

Like my new car? It goes for 0 to 60 mph in three seconds or until I hit a tree.

Honey, let's drive a bit further before we let the kids play in the snow. I don't like this place.

The Swiss Army never fails to amaze me. They're such clever little warriors.

I so glad they opened up this place. It's been rough since I've been banned from Payless Shoes.

It's been a while since we've had a list. Here's someone's list to better living. Take with a grain of salt.

1. Drink plenty of water.
2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like beggar.
3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is
manufactured in plants.
4. Live with the 3 E’s — Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy.
5. Make time to meditate.
6. (Breathe)
7. Read more books than you did in 2009.
8. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
9. Sleep for 7 hours.
10. Take a 10-30 minute walk daily. And while you walk, smile.
11. Comparing our lives to others is fruitless. We have no idea what their journey is about.
12. Replace negative thoughts with positive ones especially about things out of our control. Invest energy in the positive present moment.
13. Try not to over do. Understand limits.
14. Why take ourselves so seriously. No one else does.
15. Gossip drains precious energy.
16. Dream more while we are awake.
17. Envy is a waste of time. We already have all we need.
18. Forget issues of the past. Let go of our partners mistakes of the past. Focus on our present/future happiness.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
20. Make peace with our past so it won’t spoil the present.
21. No one is in charge of our happiness except us.
22. Realize that life is a school and we are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons we learn will last a lifetime.
23. Smile and laugh more.
24. We don’t have to win arguments. It’s ok to agree to disagree.
25. Call your family often.
26. Each day give something good to others.
27. Forgive everyone for everything.
28. Spend time with people over the age of 70 and under the age of 6.
29. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
30. What other people think of you is insignificant compared to what you think of yourself.
31. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends & family will. Stay in touch.
32. Do the right thing!
33. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
34. (Higher powers) heal everything.
35. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
36. No matter how we feel, get up, dress up, and show up.
37. The best is yet to come.
38. When we awake alive in the morning, be thankful.
39. Our Inner most is always happy. Release your “Inner Happy” on the world every day!

"Less effective do buttery fingers on a Jedi make. Mmmm? Butter I can believe this is not. Hmmmm?"

If these were my two moms, I would bring them to all my school events and be very proud of them.

Chicago art sensation Justin Van Genderen draws some cool rides from some cool movies.

I want to adopt this dog so I could borrow his glasses and look tragically hip.

When I was a kid books stayed in school so I never had a backpack. If I did get to have one, this would be it.

Chicago-based hotshot artist Justin Van Genderen has cooked up some fantastic travel posters for places you can hero watch.

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Welcome to the blog of Fred Schiller, Writer@Large. Come on in, grab a cocktail and have a look around!

This is a drawing by Barry Gott called 'Into the fray' and it makes me very happy to look at.

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Turn a tragic fire into a lots of points on your wrestling score card!

Was this how the last episode of the TV series Lost ended? I never understood that show.

Was there a Twilight Zone where the earth was in rubble and the only remaining album a music lover could find was this one?

If I had a cool art deco ashtray like this I would fill it with bubblegum cigarettes and liquorish jellybeans.

Lisa Simpson learns the truth about signs.

George! The Henderson boys are at it again. You'd better turn the hose on them before someone gets hurt!

It turns out that the Easter Island moai are both growers and showers. Right on, moai!

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I can't survive all these rules. What, is this some sort of a cult?

It's the windy city. The city of big shoulders. The slaughterhouse of the midwest. The second city. Sweet home Chicago.

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A chewy piece of Iron Man artwork by the sublime Rick Arthur.

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If I owned this painting I would stare at it for hours and hours each day.

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Did you know you could learn combat training through the mail? I'm up to chapter 47 already.

The trend of combative balloon racing was one of the shortest trends in sporting history.

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Angry chair doesn't want you to sit on him, but happy microwave will be pleased to heat something up for you.

A panel from one of my favorite issues of the Avengers by the art team of John Buscema and Tom Palmer.

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This is always a bad thing to have happen in the Underworld, what with magma and lava everywhere.

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A new general population poster for Hugh Jackman's REAL STEEL along with a cool piece of viral advertising for the movie.

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Each direction I turn these days, more lists.

The following is a list from the folks at Dictionary.com of some of the most neglected words in the english language. They are working with the Wayne State University Word Warriors in an effort to bring neglected words back to life and back into daily usage. They encourage word lovers to submit their own favorite neglected words.

Concupiscence
Draconian
Evanescent
Hornswoggle
Ossify
Paroxysm
Penurious
Schadenfreude
Sibilance
Skullduggery

Wolverine vs. T-Rex Parts 1 & 2 by nJoo

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Maybe he said them, maybe he didn't, but there's some good ones here..

50 Quotes of Albert Einstein

1. “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.”
2. “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
3. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
4. “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
5. “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
6. “The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
7. “A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”
8. “Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
9. “I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”
10. “The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”
11. “Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.”
12. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
13. “Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.”
14. “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
15. “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
16. “Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.”
17. “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
18. “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
19. “The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
20. “Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”
21. “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”
22. “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”
23. “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
24. “Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”
25. “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
26. “Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
27. “Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.”
28. “If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.”
29. “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.”
30. “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”
31. “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
32. “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
33. “In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.”
34. “The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.”
35. “Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.”
36. “Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them!”
37. “No, this trick won’t work…How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?”
38. “My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”
39. “Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.”
40. “The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking…the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.”
41. “Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.”
42. “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
43. “Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
44. “You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.”
45. “One had to cram all this stuff into one’s mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.”
46. “…one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.”
47. “He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
48. “A human being is a part of a whole, called by us ‘universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
49. “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.”

Some call it street art, others call it graffiti, but I call it innovative fun. I've built up a file of it I thought I'd share.

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