From one man’s Refacing American Tender photoset on Flickr.
“ Highlights of his global tour include encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo collector.
— From a description of a Peter Ustinov documentary in The Times. Serial comma or no: Punctuation will not save you here.
Living it up while I'm going down.
“As the emergency bell rang and rang, he began to fear that it might somehow—electricity? friction? heat?—start a fire. Recently, there had been a small fire in the building, rendering the elevators unusable. The Business Week staff had walked down forty-three stories. He also began hearing unlikely oscillations in the ringing: aural hallucinations. Before long, he began to contemplate death.”
— From an amazing article in the New Yorker. There’s a time-lapse video of the trapped man as well.
“ So, the caterpillar has emerged from the cocoon… as a shark, with a gun for a mouth.
— C. Montgomery Burns, from the Simpsons episode “C.E. D’OH”
“ I would like to thank my parents, Ayn Rand and Jesus.
— Author unknown; an example cited in stylebooks as an argument for the Oxford comma. Seen at Crooked Timber.
“ Dragon rock has a lot more fire, and burning in it than wizard rock. Wizard rock has more wands and, like, books and smartness.
— Darius Wilkins, age 8, of wizard dragon rock band The Hungarian Horntails, in The Wizard Rockumentary: A Movie About Rocking and Rowling, which had its world premiere last night in Spokane.
“ Businessmen
they drink my wine
plowmen dig my earth
none of them
along the line
know
what any of it is worth
they drink my wine
plowmen dig my earth
none of them
along the line
know
what any of it is worth
— “All Along the Watchtower,” lyrics by Bob Dylan. Must mean new BSG tonight.
Music Lessons. The best thing ever? You tell me. And there’s more!