Mu-mon-kan

Listening to Aarron Walter talk at An Event Apart about entrepreneurship and doing things “on your own time,” I was reminded by this quote by Charles Bukowski:

“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery — isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.”

This resonates with me, though, due to social pressures, it’s very difficult to do.

This is just a quick thought. Hopefully, I’ll be able to flesh this out later.

Like Bill Hicks before him, we’ve lost another hero. I want to take the time to write some appropriate thoughts on him later, but I’ll leave you with a clip in the interim:

According to this press release from Creekstone Farms, the USDA denied them access to the necessary kits that test for BSE or Mad Cow Disease. Anyone want to speculate why?