January 2010
64 posts
And the war came with a curse and a caterwaul, and the war came with all the poise of a cannonball, and they’re picking out our eyes by coat and candlelight.
When the war came, the war came hard.
“Try literary reference, douchebag!”
In one year...
…this will be home. Holy fuck.
Honestly, I'm down like the economy.
Professor Romeo: What are your majors, again? Where do you see yourself in ten years?
Me: Living in Lindsay's house. She's marketing, I'll be set for life.
Ethan: Lindsay, I'll be your personal assistant!
Me: You'll have a whole host of starving artists at your every beck and call!
Top Three.
De Pinna: My goodness, who would have thought, that day I came to deliver the ice, that I was going to stay here for eight years?
Grandpa: The milkman was here for five, just ahead of you.
De Pinna: Say, why did he leave, anyhow? I forget.
Grandpa: He didn’t leave. He died.
De Pinna: Oh, yes.
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Antrobus: Maggie, put something into Gladys’ head on the chance she can use...
Mr. Eko — The Oceanic Six
Because every...
The best kind of humor.
Lily: Tell me you're messing with me, guys. You didn't actually see a ghost.
Marshall: Its not a - it's not a big deal, baby, he seemed friendly!
Lily: You said he was a Confederate general -- they're the bad guys! And he's probably racist!
Marshall: No, he seemed polite! And he had courtly Southern manners!
Lily: We're going to raise our kids here, and I don't want some Confederate general ghost teaching them his racism!
Marshall: He loves people of all colors and creeds! He was fighting for states' rights, that's all!
“Singing my days,
Singing the great achievements of the present…
Yet...”
– “Passage to India,” Walt Whitman
Breathe in. Breathe out.
— Crepes at Davis Square
— The Boston skyline as viewed from the roof of the Tufts University library
— Oh, the places Tomás will go!
— Transcontinental videochats
— Jack’s Mannequin on the Red Line: Hours pass, and she still counts the minutes that I am not there, I swear I didn’t mean for it to feel like this, like every inch of me is bruised,...
“YOU WILL CONTINUE TO TAKE CHANCES AND BE GLAD YOU DID”
– Panda Express fortune cookie
Our lives are really just one extended effort to...
Lauren: We should bring Alex underwear shopping, for optimal discomfort.
Alex: Sometimes, I don't wear underwear.
Lauren: Weird, me either!
Alex: Oh! Oh, God.
“Popular culture reflects both change and stability. In other words: it tells us...”
Before The Second Six Feet Under of the Evening,...
Ethan: Taylor, I'm always amazed by how short your skirts are, and I love it.
Me: They RIDE UP when I SIT DOWN, okay?!
Lauren: 'CAUSE SHE WEARS SHORT SKIRTS, I WEAR TEE-SHIRTS, SHE'S CHEER CAPTAIN AND I'M ON THE BLEACHERS --
I don't have any obligations whatsoever until 2PM...
Second semester, I’m liking you already.
Excerpt from a Video We Left Emalee on December...
Me: Sorry we're having the same conversation we had in the last video. We're in my room this time, though! Because they snuck in when I wasn't here.
Lindsay: You left it unlocked! YOUR FAULT!
Catherine: And then you nearly killed Alex with your door!
Lindsay: We're parasites!
Me: And then I walked in to find Alex had plugged in my microwave for the first time all semester and was cooking Cup O' Noodles in it.
Alex, eating: My glasses are getting all foggy.
I finished "State by State!"
So many mirrors and yet we know ourselves so poorly!
“And there’s no point in complaining. We all know this is where things are...”
– Charles Bock on Nevada
“Lewis and Clark Caverns’ ceiling drips with the strange beauty of...”
– Sarah Vowell on Montana
“So when you are growing up there, it is difficult to escape the impression that...”
– John Hodgman on Massachusetts
“Abe split dozens of logs to form the barrier, and though this task was onerous,...”
– Dave Eggers on Illinois
“In January you can stand in a polo shirt outside a Starbucks in Boise and call...”
– Anthony Doerr on Idaho
“The Decencies placed their confidence in early mornings, good manners, the...”
– Speak Up For Decency! vs. Speak Up For Liberty!
“I fell asleep watching Veronica Mars again.”
– Her Words Destroyed My Planet, Motion City Soundtrack
Four albums later, they have yet to let me down.
“For sadness, grievance, anger, and frustration: This is what really pleases the...”
– John Hodgman on Boston
Watchhowimetyourmothersource:
Nothing Suits Me Like a Suit — Neil Patrick Harris and the cast of HIMYM
Suits! Wingman I can wear / Suits! They’re oh so debonair / Suits! The perfect way to snare / A girl with daddy issues!
Remember when Neil Patrick Harris lost an Emmy to that guy from Two and a Half Men? Yeah, that happened.
"She was actually Queen for NINE DAYS, OKAY?!"
Highlight of my night: getting into an actual argument with Carly regarding the cool little feature I just discovered on Wikipedia. For most famous historical figures, they have a picture of the person’s signature! I find this fascinating, and have spent ten minutes searching random people and attempting to analyze their handwriting.
Carly, ever the cynic, insists that they are probably not...
“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you...”
– Anne Frank, my childhood/lifelong hero. It still blows my mind that I will at long last be making my pilgrimage to her annex this time next year. CHICKA CHICKA YEAH