Her Way Sucks, I Prefer His: I discovered accidentally, about 10 years ago, that men feel entitled to wear comfortable underwear that covers their entire ass. The whole thing. Can you believe it? They feel entitled to comfortable underwear that covers their whole ass. Both cheeks entirely. They don’t feel they should shrink their ass […]
Category: Quotes
Very sensible advice.
Quotation of the Day for October 7, 2007 “Fix what you can. Call the rest authentic.” – Sarah Graves, offering home renovation hints in her novel Trap Door.
Pedestrians notice this too
Quotation of the Day for October 5, 2007 “This is the basis of car culture, the idea that the world and all of the world’s people are merely in its way.” – Travis Hugh Culley, in The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power.
I am tired of talking to MPP candidates
Quotation of the Day for September 9, 2007 “I believe I have an unfair edge over most of my colleagues right now — my mind works faster than my mouth does.” – Tim Johnson, U.S. Senator from South Dakota, at his first public appearance since recovering from a brain hemorrhage.
If you say so…
Quotation of the Day for September 3, 2007 “We are slightly normal. We have a normal side to us.” – Prince Harry, Henry Charles Albert David Wales, in his recent U.S. TV interview. Quoted in TIME, Aug 27, 2007.
Ouch. Morning.
Neil Gaiman sez: I’m home, and a bit exhausted. It was a beautiful day, and I took enormous pleasure in wandering around the garden in my dressing gown this morning while not being interviewed. Oh, how I love not being interviewed. I could spend several happy lifetimes not being interviewed, and between the not-interviews I […]
Indeed.
Quotation of the Day for June 4, 2007 “It is not really an exaggeration to say that peace and happiness begin, geographically, where garlic is used in cooking.” – X. Marcel Boulestin, cook and writer (1878-1943)
Woe and sandwiches
Quotation of the Day for April 25, 2007: “I now know why my own childhood packed lunches were such joyless, dispirited affairs. It was vengeance. And despair. Somehow it is very hard to feel inspired to make sandwiches at 8.15 in the morning. I just stare into the fridge. “As Nietzsche said, peer long enough […]
Meetings
QOTD for March 12: “When he was younger Mr Phillips had hated meetings. Or at least he had once he had got over the grown-up feeling, the warm glow of inclusion, of being invited to his first meeting with his first employers, Grimshaw’s. Children and students didn’t have meetings; only adults, serious employed people had […]
Penance
Quotation of the Day for January 5, 2007: “I’ve been waist-deep in a dead hippopotamus, and I’d rather do that than change diapers.” – Eric Humphries, production manager at Skulls Unlimited International, on getting used to his line of work. The company claims to be the world’s leading supplier of bones, both human and animal, […]
Green
Elizabeth May, current leader of the Green Party of Canada, is running in the London North Centre by-election today in an attempt to be the first Green Party parliamentarian in Canada. In her honour, here’s a bit of Flanders and Swann: Misalliance The fragrant Honeysuckle spirals clockwise to the sun and many other creepers do […]
Again with the bacon
Pitchfork interviews Tom Waits Pitchfork: Do you have a favorite sound Tom Waits: Bacon. In a frying pan. If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 recording. Almost exactly like that. You could substitute it for […]
Slow day for the government
The new(ish) federal government is certainly keeping my media scan calm and uninteresting with its endless list of ribbon-cutting announcements: Canada Revenue Agency: The Honourable Gerald Keddy, Member of Parliament for South Shore-St. Margaret’s, Announces the Signing of a Contribution Agreement With a Nova Scotia Charity Yawn. But sometimes some levity makes its way past […]
In tooth and claw
(QOTD for August 27) “The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.” – William Ralph Inge
Sucks
(QOTD for August 15) “Sucks is the most concise, emphatic way we have to say something is no good. As a one-syllable intransitive verb, it offers superb economy. Granted, some things require more involved assessments (like, say, James Joyce: I find his early work unparalleled in its style and its evocation of emotion, while his […]
Mysteries of the universe
And another QOTD: The real world is a complicated place. In order to provide illustrations in a physics lesson that emphasize only a single concept, such as Newton’s Second Law of Motion or the principle of Conservation of Energy, over the decades physics teachers have developed an arsenal of overly stylized scenarios involving projectile motion, […]
Quotation of the day for June 17, 2006
“I would also like to understand women.” – Stephen Hawking, astrophysicist, from a list of his ambitions, as told to the moderator at a recent lecture at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. QOTD
R.I.P. John Kenneth Galbraith
QOTD for May 2: “The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.” – John Kenneth Galbraith, economist, author, professor at Harvard and Princeton, who died April 29, 2006 at 97. [Quoted on the BBC]
Quote of the day for October 17
“Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.” – Flann O’Brien, writer (1911-1966). (QOTD)
Quote of the day for April 29, 2005
“The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.” – Jacques Barzun (QOTD)