April 2010
12 posts
“As long as the music’s playing, the editors have to run around anxious to find...”
– Very interesting article on publishing from Guernica. (via RNash) (via thefeeling)
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Mom's Morbidity Returns
Mom and I are watching ‘Ball of Fire,’ a screwball comedy from 1941.
Mom: Do I even have to say it?
Me: All these people are dead now?
Mom: Yep.
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Discourse with Mom
Mom: They're comparing American Idol to Clash of the Titans.
Me: More like Clash of the . . . (thinking) . . . (thinking) . . . (thinking) . . . KITTENS!
Mom: That's not funny. Don't put that on your Facebook.
Me: I'm putting it on my Facebook!
Mom: Don't put it on your Facebook!
Me: I'M PUTTING IT ON MY FACEBOOK! YOU CAN'T STOP ME!
Mom: No!
Me: Also, it's not Facebook.
Mom: Whatever.
“The Sixties, I suppose, were a different time. Hunting black people for sport...”
– My pal Matt Louv has begun a blog about the 1964 Audubon Nature Encyclopedia. It is already excellent and worthy of your attention.
“Factual errors: Any time Data plays the part of Sherlock Holmes he’s shown...”
– These are the things Star Trek fans get angry about, and I love them for it.