Pray you children
for the sky to shine
and for the water to be clear
and listen when we say
I just saw the most beautiful sight
of a lady with no arms or legs
no hands or feet
just a scar
like wet rags left
on hot asphalt

–SMS

A great Japanese warrior named Nobunaga decided to attack the enemy although he only had one-tenth the number of men the opposition commanded. He knew he would win, but his soldiers were in doubt.

On the way he stopped at a Shinto shrine and told his men: “After I visit the shrine I will toss a coin. If heads comes, we will win; if tails, we will lose. Destiny holds us in her hand.”

Nobunaga entered the shrine and offered a silent prayer. He came forth and tossed a coin. Heads appeared. His soldiers were so eager to fight that they won their battle easily.

“No one can change the hand of destiny,” his attendant told him after the battle.

“Indeed not,” said Nobunaga, showing a coin which had been doubled, with heads facing either way.

Happyness, says the Times.

“If you could think of something that would get an NC-17 rating with no sex or violence,” he said, “you would have the most radical movie of the year.”
–“Shock Me If You Can,” September 14, 2012