living in a shotgun shack
July 2009
28 posts
"The portrait of her cat brought more than her own," said Kenyon.
“…Arguably, making excuses for one’s poor performance is unprofessional, though couching one’s excuse in professionalism by refusing to give any details is art. Even more compelling is the excuse-within-an-excuse, when Evans implies in a different interview that the problem he refuses to divulge for professional reasons is that his team sucks”
—http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/
“…Her original name she ignored, finally responding to the curse that would escape my lips when I would catch her being bad as a teenager. “Dammit dog!!!” I would say looking at the garbage can knocked over. “Dammit dog!!!!” I would shout as I would chase her down when she escaped from the yard. “Dammit dog!!!” I said one day as she was eating a pair of Danny’s panties. And she came to me like I called her. And came to me every time after that. Named herself, basically. She was put on the Earth to make your day. And she did just that, over and over again. Every day.”
—Chicken John, about Dammit the Wonderdog
“At a London plane“Tree No. 92“an M.I.T. -trained architect talks about making edible houses from living trees.”
—Ian Frazier
“…Bruce Springsteen, James Gandolfini, and Joe Piscopo (I know the last one seems like something of a surprise, but every New Jerseyan secretly loves Joe Piscopo.They’ll deny it to outsiders, but it’s true. They keep little shrines to him in their homes. The traditional birthday present for a thirteen-year-old in New Jersey is a DVD copy of the 1986 film Wise Guys in which Piscopo co-starred with Danny DeVito. Ask any native New Jerseyan to recite a scene from Johnny Dangerously and you will be stuck for hours listening to their Piscopo impressions. New Jerseyans worship Joe Piscopo.)”
—SAME post! so great.
“…rumored to be looking at Randal Pinkett, winner of the fourth season of “The Apprentice” (which, coincidentally, is the fourth season of that show that I’ve never watched)”
—haha I love Balk’s writing
“MIDDLE SCHOOL SLOW DANCE CALIBER”
—Paolo
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“…a dwindling white nonurban America that is aflame with grievances and awash in self-pity as the country hurtles into the 21st century and leaves it behind.”
—yikes. Terrific Op-Ed piece by Frank Rich (topic: S Palin).
Also
there is a website called ModernCat.net (!) This amuses me to no end.
Jackie-Oh! needs this. Which is to say she needs me to build it for her. And in the current ancienne apartamento with the stricto landlord, it isn’t going to happen. Maybe when we move to the wilds of West Oakland.
