The Brownfield/Justin Kahn Project: Veni, Vidi, Vici.

This is a geography much more interesting than all of that middle earth stuff, because it is based in Truth.

A Million years ago, I moved to a small wasteland.

This is the time, when Cleveland Heights only had three quadrants.

(Artist's rendition of the vast wasteland.)

But I had a vision of what this little wasteland could become.

So I began plotting and scheming. With much effort I created a whole community. I created the fourth quadrant.

But now it is time for me to move on.

I mean this real metaphoric-like.

But maybe also for literal.

Sir Justin Makes You an Offer You Can't Refuse.

Yesterday was going to be my last post.

And then I read Susan's Undying Gratitude.

Followed by Christina's insightful response to the post by me and Susan Sontag.

And part of me felt like, I'm glad that Susan Sontag is dead, so that she doesn't have to hear this devastating criticism. But the other part of me felt like, this is exactly why I have the most popular blog in the fourth quadrant of Cleveland Heights.

I recognize that my NotComparable Genius explains part of COI's success, but it is also all the great readers who take the time to read and leave comments and link to me and write me weird emails about How We Could Be So Happy Together.


That is why I have decided to run another contest, to repay at least one of you for your generosity.

The person who does the most to advance the reputation of me and my blog will win an actual Lock of My Hair!

Get to it and good luck!

HOW CAN I GET MOTIVATED MONDAYS!

This weekend, during my extensive studies of Goethe, I came across this amazing quote: “Nothing is Worth More Than This Day.”

And by extensive studies, I mean I saw it on a magnet on my friend’s fridge when I dropped by to borrow season one of MacGyver.




But so what if I gave up on reading to watch boxed sets of DVD’s. Maybe, I’m all washed up, but you can be motivated if you stopped being so nosy about my pathetic life and started focusing on Goethe’s Great Idea.

I mean doesn’t Goethe’s quote really put things in perspective?

Allow me to explain this quote. What is worth more than this day? NOTHING, says Goethe!

So maybe the quote wasn’t as elusive as I had imagined it to be. But the real test is what are you going to do with that beautiful tidbit of motivation? Are you going to use this day to its fullest or are you going to be all pathetic and wish you would have checked to see if Macgyver has been released on DVD yet? And then send me an email asking if I could wait to start MacGyver and I’m going to be like nope, because what is more valuable than this day and the opportunity to watch MacGyver? Nothing!

Obviously, I can’t tell you how to apply this quote to your own life, but I can give you another example of what that quote has inspired me to do. I am going to make a needlepoint with Goethe’s saying on it.

That’s how important this quote is to me. “NOTHING IS WORTH MORE THAN THIS DAY”

Sure, the key quality I had always been looking for in a girl is the ability to needlepoint so that she could cover our home with wise sayings. So that, when I remembered to shut the toilet seat, I would see the phrase, “NOTHING IS WORTH MORE THAN THIS DAY”

And in the hall that leads away from the bathroom would be another, needlepoint of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Arm and needle point-tattooed on it is the saying, "NOTHING IS WORTH MORE THAN THIS DAY.” And by the time I removed the needlepoint car covering and drove down the needlepoint driveway, I would have been so full of good and wise sayings that nothing could have stopped me. Not even a slew of really sad, negative needlepoints made by second rate wives in the neighborhood.

But I’m never gone have a needle pointing women or a toilet or a hall, so I need to emphasize that what I have right now, THIS DAY, is worth more than anything.

Except maybe the boxed set of MacGyver.

Either way Goethe has given us a Super-Motivational thought!