Not Just Hurtling Through
A Radical Change of Circumstances. That’s all this is — not so much the Armageddon that pop culture is trying to summon on down … This is an adventure, the best science fiction action flick ever, a motherfucking epic. We are not an extra in anyone’s disaster movie. We’re not going down with Someone Else’s Ship. We’re just walking down the road and conversating about building better futures. We are planning on kicking ass this year, and anyone is welcome to Join.
Quoted from "Or Maybe We Learn To Fly" via @brainsturbator
Poem of the Day #1
One of my favorite poems, Ode by Arthur O'Shaughnessy, 1844–1881
WE are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.
We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.
Heroes, Season 3
"Hiro, whatever you do, don't open the safe."
"Ando, I must open the safe immediately! Despite my father's express wishes, against all my cultural instincts as a Japanese to obey without question my ancestors dying pleas, and despite his dire and boneheadedly explicit warning that it will lead inexorably and directly to the end of the very world I have now saved twice already. I must open, nay! Ando, I am compelled to open this safe! Right now! And LO! My father has conveniently left behind this handy electronic safe opener gizmo in this unguarded box on my desk, and I seem to know the combination to this safe without even trying!....and what's this?! Upon opening this safe and holding up this dire formula that leads to the very destruction of the world, why immediately a thief steals it! A thief with the power of super speed! But I can stop time and I COULD take the formula out of her hand and say, I don't know, burn it, or eat it or, fuck, just put it back into the safe when she's frozen..and I could, if I was a dick you know, maybe stab her in the heart with this letter opener, but..you know what...I won't do that, although I could. In fact, any real human being with my powers in this situation WOULD do exactly that. No, I won't. I will let her get away with it and once again put the fate of the entire world into chance's hands just so I can create another silly plot device to keep this trainwreck rolling. And so that Mohinder can get his sex on with the sexy latina death chick."
"Hiro, That is a brilliant plan!"
"Thank you Ando...now quick..to the Gay Cave!"
The amazing thing is, you can do this for every character in the show.
