living in a shotgun shack
September 2009
23 posts
“…but perhaps that’s just because I’ve mellowed over the last three days, thanks to the immense amount of shirtlessness I’ve witnessed on The CW since Monday. God bless.”
—go fug
Dexter: “Do you know anything about wedding rings?”
Deb: “Yeah! Wedding rings and nuclear fission are my specialty.”
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Mindpowered [#948]
Dan Brown is to intellectual as Finnegans Wake is to readable.
” —http://www.theawl.com/2009/09/booked-up-dan-browns-the-lost-symbol
“PREDICTION: 50-year old love interest in movie to be played by Mandy Moore.”
—Rod Townsend
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“Except for the fact that they do give us better tips and they are less likely to throw beer glasses at each other when the evening gets going.”
—guardian uk via The Awl
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The Teabaggers have a tried and true process when it comes to protesting:
Step One: Turn on Fox News to be told where to direct one’s anger.
” —Teabaggers
“… In fact it seems from the outside as if these people have joined a dubious cult: they claim to be much happier and more fulfilled than ever before, even though they live in conditions of appalling filth and degradation, deprived of the most basic freedoms and dignity, and owe unquestioning obedience to a capricious and demented master.”
—The Referendum
“…and Bijou taught me that if someone is eating something you like – an Italian sub, say – it never hurts to ask: “Are you going to finish that?”
—My Life as a Dog
“… Does he consider me some sort of amusing and feckless manchild instead of a respected cartoonist whose work is beloved by hundreds and has made me a thousandaire, who’s been in a committed relationship for 15 years with the same cat?”
—http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/the-referendum/
“SFoodie may have just discovered the secret to world peace: The tenets of Islam, Judaism, and Hinduism all agree that the consumption of horses is forbidden. If we can all come together on what’s just plain icky to eat, we might be able to all just get along. This list of foods forbidden around the world just might help us all gauge how far we are from being on the same page.”
—SFoodie
“…scarier still if we had any vivifying sense of who _____ was.”
—Anthony Lane
“The President confessed to having had limited experience with enraged rabbits.”
—http://www.narsil.org/index/peopl/jimmycarter/killerrabbit
via
http://www.theawl.com/2009/09/jody-powell-1943-2009
via
http://www.theawl.com/2009/09/jody-powell-1943-2009
