May 2009
40 posts
“Hollywood Boulevard hook me up to your feeding tube I am ready”
– Juked via Riley Dog
“I am a big fan of clothing, and beyond that I am a big fan of skin; both serve...”
– Answer Girl
“I was your only chance at happiness—now it’s over for you.”
– Wurtzel
“I need to bear witness to an uncertain event.”
– Enright
“This is my costume. I’m a homicidal maniac; they look just like everyone else.”
– Wednesday Addams
“Obama did not shut down the practice of torture, Nairn observes, but...”
– Chomsky
“They called themselves ‘the virtual human shield.’”
– “Art Goes Politics”
“Years before, in the essay “Why I Write”, he had described the...”
– “The Masterpiece That Killed George Orwell” (via Clayton Cubitt)
“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp,...”
– Shneidman
“If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp,...”
– Lynch
“Sure, give my spleen to some kid if need be. I signed up for that. But...”
– Junod on McG
“I want to fuck you until we merge into a Chimera. A mythical beast with penis...”
– “Synecdoche, New York”
“Writing about motherhood is a little bit like writing about sex — in both cases,...”
– Times
“I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London,...”
– Swift
“He’s just another carcass on the highway of love.”
– Susie’s aunt
“[T]he photograph is like her trophy – it’s what she received as the reward...”
– On Arbus
“I can… imagine the appeal of the very fiery, the very intense, the very...”
– Eva Hoffman
“But I admit to being intrigued that in many cases the creatures fighting one...”
– On Usine
“That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.”
– Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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“Remember house parties and making out in other people’s hallways? It was like a...”
– “2006” 