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"Let us begin this ordeal with a fairly safe assumption: No human being who has ever lived in this world has ever taken good advice."
- Kinky Friedman, "What Would Kinky Do?"

"I awoke on Friday, and because the universe is expanding it took me longer than usual to find my robe."
- Woody Allen, "Strung Out"

"Every day is a gift - but does it have to be socks?"
- Tony Soprano

"My attitude is always that it is a great day for America when a government official is led away in handcuffs."
- William Arkin

"I learned that giving is its own reward, which is kind of like saying, there's no reward."
- Sarah Silverman

"You should always worry about somebody who has his own manifesto."
- the lovely Mrs. byoolin's trebuchet

"I may be crazy, but, man, at least I'm cool."
- Johnny Winter, "I Hate Everybody"

"It's YOUR hell, YOU burn in it."
- bumper sticker

"Logic is a little tweeting bird, chirping in a meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers that smells bad."
- Spock

"I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it."
- Philip Marlowe (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep

"Twas brillig, and the toves were not just slithy, they were stinking drunk."
- Richard A. Polunsky

05 November 2008 @ 01:05 pm

Quote.

The Washington Post's blog, 44 (known during the campaign as "The Trail"), reported on the crowds in the streets after Obama's election last night:

"In front of the White House, the celebrants came up with a new chant to direct toward the mansion: 'Pack! Your! S--t!'"

Tags: i wish i'd said that

Music: Hit The Road, Jack

Sez you.

15 October 2008 @ 08:17 am

Quote.

The theme of this morning's broadcast on XM radio of Bob Dylan's Prime Time Rhyme Time Musical Theme Show Extravaganza, or whatever the hell the show is called, was 'money,' and at one point Bob quoted jazzman Tiny Grimes:

"Money isn't the key to happiness, but if you have enough money you can get the key made."

Tags: i wish i'd said that

Sez you.

10 September 2008 @ 08:30 am

I wish I'd said that.

I had to drive myself to work this morning and listened to Bob Dylan's show on XM Radio. It's an entertaining hour (or possibly longer) of Bob playing some of his favourite tunes; this morning's show was built around the theme of The West. While I drove I heard "Go West" by Geraint Watkins, "Mendocino" by the Sir Douglas Quintet, a Dave Alvin cover of "Surfer Girl," something by Joni Mitchell, and a couple of old blues tunes, all introduced by Bob, whose speaking voice is, if anything, more distinctive than his singing voice. Imagine kind of a cross between Selma from the sitcom Night Court and a voiceover from a film noir, with words occasionally emphasized as though their first letters were capitalized.

But Bob's got a sense of humour. You can hear him snicker as he makes little jokes every now and then, and sometimes he goes straight for the laugh. He talked about how early Spanish explorers thought California was an island and said, "Another Couple of Tremors and it Will be." Then he presented his California joke.

"If you Do find yourself in an earthQuake in California, you need to do Two things: first, get yourself under a Doorway; then, make sure that Doorway is in Cleveland."

Tags: i wish i'd said that

Music: Highway 61 Revisited

Sez you.

26 July 2008 @ 09:28 am

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XKCD by Randall Munroe.

Tags: i wish i'd said that

1 comment | Sez you.

30 April 2008 @ 08:13 am

Found Poetry In The Comments To A Celebritology Article About Photos of Miley Cyrus

"Liz Kelly, what hell hath ye wrought?"
- regular blog commenter rachelt

The other day, photographs of the 15-year-old actor/singer Miley Cyrus appeared in Vanity Fair magazine. Some of the photos, taken by Annie Liebovitz, featured Ms. Cyrus apparently wearing only a sheet and a pout.

Reaction was predictable: these photographs were either the worst thing to ever happen or a publicity stunt or no big deal. Liz Kelly covered the topic in her Celebritology blog and one of the regulars made a bold prediction:

"This is going to be one of those days," wrote h3. "I bet at 3 [pm, when the kids get home from school and on the net] we get a big influx of posts that are half abbreviations."

He was right - Celebritology posts usually get in the neighbourhood of fifty or sixty comments - but this one got over four hundred. We regulars could hardly get a word in edgewise. The blog was flooded.

And it was not pretty, but it did make for some pretty good found poetry.

So What She Did A Photoshoot Nude
She Was Covered Like
Seriously
Im Not Trying To Be Mean But Seriously
(Miley's Biggest Fan)

It's not that bad, but u went further.
Way to end your career.
(jmn)

SHE ISNT EVEN PROPPER NACKED
(mileys #1 fan aldways has bin aldways will do)

There is absolutly nothing pornorific about any of the photo's i have seen.
Gossipers and such making little things into big deals cause they hve nother better todo..as well all know those who think they have goody too shoes.REally are snowed over,lol
I'm out G/l On the boredom in the room.
(Dawn)

I am going to Pray that you make better decision in your life. when you do always ask yourself. WWJD!!! what Would Jesus Do?
(Meredith)

Tags: america, blasphemy, celebritology, found poetry, hmmm, i wish i'd said that, rants, tv, wtf?

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