December 2009
They Are Marchin' In...
Some team from New England is getting the bejesus knocked out of it tonight… :-)
So, as we can see from its advertising, Radio Shack has now morphed into “The Shack”. Radio Shack has been around since they invented radio, mostly because they needed a shack to put it in, and now, after decades of inane jingles, we are left with “The Shack”. How are we going to deal with this development, because we all know that the shack is really the Love Shack, right?
“I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain...”
– Stephen Jay Gould (via azspot) (via robot-heart-politics) (via stevenebowman) (via wellthatsjustgreat)
November 2009
“All too frequently the average amateur will purchase a fine modern camera and...”
– Sam Haskins (via simko)
“She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (via cocknbull)
“If you think anyone is sane you just don’t know enough about them.”
– The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore (via lizznotliz)
“Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story”
– Tolstoy (via mikepodukofke)
“I am a dream. You are lucky to have me.”
– That’s what she said.
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Worst Christmas Advent Gift Ever
from get @baffled
“Dr. Thorpe also said that if the incidence of obesity fell to its 1987 level, it...”
– Health Care Savings May Start in Employee Diets - NYTimes.com (via silas216)
He was relieved to have finally worked the word...
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We look for the sermon in the...”
– Joan Didion (Whiskey River) (via lastchatwithphontaine)
“He had half a mind to keep on falling. Two fingers to the lot of them.”
– Douglas Adams, “Mostly Harmless”
Holiday Shopping Observation No.12: “Buy One Sweater, Get One 25% Off” is not actually a sale. Fuck you, GAP!
“From the lone shieling of the misty island
Mountains divide us, and the waste...”
– ‘Canadian Boat Song’ translated from the Gaelic in Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine September (1829) ‘Noctes Ambrosianae’ no. 46 (attributed to John Galt) (via lastchatwithphontaine)
“When your dreams are of some world that never was or of some world that never...”
– The Road (2006) - Cormac McCarthy (via lastchatwithphontaine)
chaise de jazz
from get @baffled
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round...”
– — Jack Kerouac
Submitted by: Alanna
(via quote-book)
Oh holy shit, one of my most favorite quotes ever.
(via sfbound)
“Adam and Eve were naked in the Garden of Eden, weren’t they? When they sinned,...”
– Gretchen Mol as Bettie Page in Mary Harron’s The Notorious Bettie Page. (via thedailywhat)
Overheard: Hipster 1: “Yeah, I got this awesome Apple system with a 30-inch flat panel monitor and Bose speakers, all for about $4,000.” Hipster 2: “What do you need a new system for?” Hipster 1: “I need it to maximize my free porn experience.”
