April 2011
5 posts
The National Debt
fringeelements:
First guy: Run up huge deficits (leave it to the next guy to deal with) Next guy: 1. Blame the current debt on the last guy 2. Run up huge deficits (leave it to the next guy to deal with) Next guy: 1. Blame the current debt on the last guy 2. Run up huge deficits (leave it to the next guy to deal with) … Last guy: 1. Blame the current debt on the last guy 2. Default on the debt...
“Borders’s finances crumbled amid declining interest in bricks-and-mortar...”
– The Borders two blocks from me is closing its doors. I’m in mourning, for now my options for places of commercial retreat are Barnes & Noble (far away and not so homey) or Starbucks (which doesn’t even have books). Booksamillion isn’t even on the table. I went to my Borders...
I am, by all means, a dog person
In January, however, I accidentally acquired a cat—or, more specifically, a kitten. I have almost adjusted to living with the strange creature (this is the first of its species ever in my possession). The cat, now four months old, is unlike any other animal I’ve had (oh, and I’ve had lots: dogs, horses, goats, cows, various rodents, birds of all varieties, snakes, lizards,...
March 2011
1 post
“Fucking there’s a restaurant right down the street
called
“my old...”
– She’s my best friend, and she’s away on a semester in London. I miss her so much.
February 2011
24 posts
Things I did this weekend:
1. Lunch with my mother. 2. Listen to my grandmother talk about her grandmother. 3. Fry my stomach in an attempt to make french fries.
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo... →
is a grammatically valid sentence in American English.
You know,
‘You know’ doesn’t really work as an exclamation. Nobody likes ‘um’ or ‘like’, but ‘you know’ might take the cake… No. No, I don’t know. If I did I wouldn’t need you to, um, like, tell me… (you know?)
“Tell me the truth, Frank, remember that? We used to live by it. And you know...”
– Kate Winslet as April Wheeler in Revolutionary Road
“If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are...”
– Richard Yates
“Did you hear about the child who returned from her first visit to Sunday School...”
– I love linguistics.
I quite like this →
One more interesting tidbit on my (anti)religious... →
“Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
– C.S. Lewis (via wryan)
I love C.S. Lewis, but it’s disappointing to me that he was such a religious fanatic. Worse still, he did a poor job of defending Christianity.
“The more you learn, the more disappointed you wind up being. It’s easy to like...”
– David Sedaris (via jaredgeller)
January 2011
7 posts
Oh, how I ache.
“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations—one can either do this...”
– (via thoughtsdetained)
November 2010
4 posts
“…we talked about the Pope and birth control, about Hitler and the Jews. We...”
– Vonnegut (Cat’s Cradle) (via kavalierandclay)
October 2010
50 posts
“I have figured for you the distance between the horns of a dilemma, night and...”
– ~James Thurber, Many Moons
Things I Don't Understand And Definitely Am Not...
thingsidontunderstandand:
They sighed (so loud and at the same time) when they realized that there was nothing before the busyness. Only everything after.
The quietest hour
is not the one in which everyone dies—it’s the one in which they realize they will.
