September 2009
Richard Hugo - “Degrees of Gray in...
August 2009
“Happiness consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.”
– Guido Anselmi
WatchMac & Cheese ‘portamenter’ by Jason Permenter
It’s Jas-Per’s world; we just eat in it.
“I say, ‘Look, don’t sweat it, Dan. You’re writing for Newsweek, the...”
– Gruber, who’s gentleman enough to send Dan a little traffic. As he hands him his ass.
Sentencing Review: Deposition of the Captain
As I said in my onsite debrief and again in my testimony under oath, my memories of the accident are intense, fragmented, and still very difficult to understand. Incongruous and nightmarish.
I am, by trade, a sailor, and the captain of a small yellow steamboat I have owned for five years. And on the morning in question, my life was turned literally upside down because of the defendant and his...
“[Craig Newmark] already has a parking space, a hummingbird feeder, a small home...”
– WIRED article on Craigslist that I haven’t finished reading, but which is already awesome for this wonderful quote.
“…in the bathtub the other night…”
Warning: For...
“Happy people don’t say they’re happy.”
– rands, coining what I will suggest dubbing, “Rands’ Karenina Corollary.”
“I don’t believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do...”
– Fellini (via smut-to-go) (via systems)
WatchSporty, Day-to-Evening Look
“If life were more like “New Yorker” cartoons, today I could be...”
– Adam Isacson
WatchWhat by lonelysandwich
Roxana needs some kind of giant internet fan club. I’ll volunteer to be comptroller. She’s empirically adorable plus she makes the best site on the internet.
“When the lion is dead, the jackals become brave enough to howl.”
– happyroach, in Goodbye, Teddy. Never heard that phrase before, but wow. It’ll be jackals I’m thinking of every time some famous stranger dies and Twitter instantly devolves into open mic night for D-minus corpse-fucking gags. Because that, my friends, is some sad, sorry shit.
“I just kicked two teenagers off the see-saw. I feel at once super powerful and a...”
– Madeline
You Look Nice Today : East Arcadia State: 2009 MindSetter Sheet
I love reading these each year. It really is the little things that make each year seem so different.
6) Anilingus has always been something many people of all ages are nervous to ask for
Can you believe it’s already been over 18 years? Man. Glad I’m not a kid today.
I need some information first.
AMG - Pink Floyd - “Comfortably Numb”
(by Bill Janovitz)
I went to this modest wedding once where after the bride and groom kissed (well, made out for about three minutes), the leather-vested groomsmen threw open a garage door (where the catering was), cranked up the stereo (no DJ or band), and the first song of the wedding was Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably...
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Making the Clackity Noise
Buffering [Sonny Payne]
When I was a percussionist in high school, we were responsible for keeping the jazz band, full orchestra, concert band, and marching band in time, and we did so through a haze of marijuana and hormones and passed-down stories of some guy’s uncle who saw Gene Krupa perform a 12-minute solo using every part of a high hat while eschewing the rest of the kit. And to this...
