As an old friend of mine said:

"we're kind of a lost generation"

and I said:

"we all are, dude. we really really are. there are so many of us who don't know what to do with ourselves---we're creative but we have no discipline, we're motivated but have no direction, we're smart but we have no parameters in which to work, or out of which to break. "

and that's us, Gen. Y, in a nutshell. Anybody got any good ideas?

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what madness counts for

"Why I said yes? Because it [is] madness—I never said no to madness in my life. Never."

-- the novelist Paco Ignacio Taibo, II, on why he has entered into a collaborative literary effort with the elusive revolutionary Subcommandante Marcos.