“…which plunges into the cutthroat world of competitive college cheerleading.”
—Daily Beast
June 2010
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BY now it was late and we were at Pastis and His Holiness was trying to get the bartender’s attention. The place was crowded and His Holiness seemed annoyed.
“What does a guy have to do to get a beer around here?” he said, more under his breath than to anyone in particular. Then he started laughing. “Patience, right? Let’s live in this moment. It’s just that it would be a better moment if we had beer.” Then he started laughing again.
” —hereTo encourage branching, cut back stems to just above the first set of leaves when plants have developed three pairs of leaves.
WHY is it so hard for drivers to use their damn turn signals?
1. Why are you here — what’s your purpose?
2. How do you want to show up for others — what are your values?
3. What are your God-given talents?
4. Five years from now, how is the world experiencing you?
5. Who would you already be if you were already there?
“But older people stick to the tradition. ‘You see grandmas in the beer garden, having weisswurst and a pretzel at 11 a.m. with their first beer of the day,’ she said.”
—pretzels
Girls' Coats Recalled Due to Strangulation Hazard
“When the organs have failed, when the mind has dissolved, when the body that has faithfully housed us for our lifetime has abandoned us, what’s wrong with giving up?”
—Richard Rapport
"Quite frankly, when it comes to the question of, you know, Apple being stern about what it’s going to put on there, the hell with it,” Remnick said. “We’re going to publish what we’re going to publish."
Fimoculous: From one island to another →
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fek:
By the end of the night, I realized SF kids talk about Arrington the same way that NYC kids talk about Denton. They are both smoke monsters.
Except the San Francisco iteration of X won’t be the San Fransisco iteration of X so much as it will always be The San Fransisco Version of New York’s X.
The last comment above is hilarious. It will always be The San Fransisco [sic] Version of New York’s X in the eyes of self-important New Yorkers.
“It is a good thing to be aware of, this regulation. It restores logic to certain foods.”
—I love Molly Young’s writing.
n+1 number 9
n+1 number 9
There IS no way to strike the right tone when you’re saying, “So, I’ve noticed you resemble a manatee. Have you planned on doing anything about that, or not?"
