The Art of Tetman Callis

“People’s lives today are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don’t survive. We don’t see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it—everywhere we look, from billboard signs […]

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“Talent is one thing, but getting up in the morning and putting on your boots and doing something about it is another.” – Daniel Lanois (interviewed by Rick Beato on The Beato Club, published May 17, 2023)

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“Don’t we just love the unusual when it’s good?” – Daniel Lanois (interviewed by Rick Beato on The Beato Club, published May 17, 2023)

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“Somebody might study debate for five years in the university. That’s fine, but I’ve studied how to get along with people and how to get things done, in those five years. What would you call that? Is there a department that teaches cooperation, productivity, agreement, working together in such a way that you get to […]

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“Imagine life without the ‘Undo’ button.” – Daniel Lanois (interviewed by Rick Beato on The Beato Club, published May 17, 2023)

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Some wives get up in the morning and say,“Good morning.” Some wives get up in the morning and say,“This place stinks.We need to open some windows.” Some objects are massive,Too heavy to be easily moved. Some objects are dense but small,Wieldable,And will sail across rooms. (Published in Weekly Alibi, Vol. 5, No. 5, Feb. 7-13, […]

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hi how nice to meet you the weather’s been awful late- ly would you like to hear about an interestinggangland murder how about the counselor up onassault charges with his car let me tell you who hasa messy history of assaulting lovers andwives how about child molesters there’s much of inter- est one could learn […]

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it happened not too far from here, last night,just a few blocks up that way. there was thisguy beating his wife. she ran outsideand down the street, screaming for help. he ranafter her. a neighbor stepped in, toldthe husband, hey, stop beating your wife. the husband said, she is my wife and iwill beat her. […]

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“Space of itself, and time of itself will sink into mere shadows, and only a kind of union between them shall survive.” – Hermann Minkowski (quoted by Richard P. Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I)

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i’m reading about kosovoits unmiks and kayforsits pee-ohs and various constitutions and i truly want to care about all this—i am an educated, liberal man— but i dreamed last night of a girl i had sex withtwenty-five years ago (i will spare you the details i will not spare myselfor maybe i’m just being selfish) […]

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“If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemnIf a child lives with hostility, he learns to fightIf a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shyIf a child lives with shame, he learns to feel guiltyIf a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patientIf a child lives with encouragement, he […]

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“The whole idea of a teacher is to be able to teach the student how to learn on their own so the teacher’s not needed.” – Rick Beato, “Did Dire Straits Create the Coolest Riff Ever? Yep”

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“You can make a lot of mistakes in just one lifetime.” – Raymond Chandler, “I’ll Be Waiting”

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The final letter July 23, 1950Dear FolksI have a little more time to write now than I did the other day. In case you didn’t get the other letter there was $80 in Travelers checks in it.We are aboard a Japanese Ship (I can’t pronounce the name of it) We will get to Korea in […]

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i turn on the television while i roll my first joint.markets are rising and falling.the japanese are calling for calm.the spa i summered in seasons ago has been destroyed by intelligent bombs.the chinese are demanding revenge.the vengeful are demanding chinese.there’s cold carry-out in the refrigerator, on the bottom shelf. i roll my second joint.it’s another […]

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“Thought is the enemy of flow.” – Vinnie Colaiuta (quoted by Rick Beato in “Why Jeff Beck is Uncopyable”)

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“I’m not the kind of guy who believes in hell, or in a god who imagines a lake of fire. I just can’t see it—you have a mind that’s wider than the sky and that is what you use it to picture? To me, that sounds too petty, too human, too undivine to be real. […]

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“The most dangerous thing in the world is a second lieutenant with a compass.” – Justin King, “Let’s talk about a BBC analysis of Russian personnel”

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“Is it forever that the sword must devour? Do you not know that it will be bitter afterward? Until when will you not bid the fighting-people to turn back from going after their brothers?” – II Samuel 2:26 (trans. Everett Fox)

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“There are old pilots and bold pilots but no old bold pilots.” – Peter Johnson, Retired Airline Pilot, Quora

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“You will be much more in control, if you realize how much you are not in control.” – Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor

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“It’s OK to be wrong; it’s unforgivable to stay wrong.” – Marty Zweig

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“The Negro as beast: it is always convenient and comfortable to believe that those who are about to be either killed or exploited mercilessly are something less than human, and hence available to be used for the benefit of humans. The dehumanization of the object is an important psychological precondition of destruction, and it is […]

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“Before the arrival of Europeans the peoples of West Africa had lived under a number of remarkable empires of considerable diversity. Many of these peoples were pastoral, some were agricultural; they fished, they traded extensively, they developed skilled craftsmen, well-articulated codes of law, and highly sophisticated sculpture and music. Some African cities, such as Benin, […]

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“For many thousands of servants their term of indentured servitude was a period of enforced celibacy. Marriage without the consent of the master was illegal, and the crimes of fornication and bastardy figure importantly in the records of bound servitude—not surprisingly, when we realize how many of the servant population were between the ages of […]

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“Among the by-products of English Social change of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was a very substantial pool of criminal talents. The laws devised to suppress the criminal population were so harsh—scores of crimes were defined as felonies and hanging was a standard punishment for many trivial offenses—that England would have been launched upon mass […]

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“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against […]

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“Led by a young lawyer, Francis Daniel Pastorius, who was charmed at the prospect of taking a community to lead ‘a quiet, godly, and honest life in a howling wilderness,’ in 1683 a pioneer group settled in what was to be called Germantown, not far from Philadelphia, which became a center where German immigrants collected […]

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“It is hard now to imagine, but it is a matter of record that the mid-eighteenth-century mariner approaching the American strand could detect the fragrance of the pine trees about 60 leagues, or 180 nautical miles, from land.” – Richard Hofstadter, America at 1750: A Social Portrait

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“What you can laugh at, you cannot be afraid of.” – Mikhail Iossel, Notes from Cyberground

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