February 2010
63 posts
What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was...
– High Fidelity
[I was feeling kind of sad, and I’ve been listening to a lot of depressing music, so to cure that I am listening to the happy tag on Last.fm]
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You know the fantasy isn’t here. This is very real. The park is reality....
– Walt Disney
January 2010
59 posts
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If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to...
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via first-lines)
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites →
There are 890, and I’ve only been to FIVE! Grand Canyon, Statue of Liberty, Redwood National Park, Historic District of Old Quebec, and SGang Gwaay.
Scanwiches →
I really like the idea of Scanwiches…but doesn’t your scanner get all grody?
Typical 108.
AG: Jon Bon Jovi's going to be on 30 Rock.
SP: He's hot.
ZG: Yeah. Cry Wolf.
SP: With Michael J. Fox?
ZG: No. That's Teen Wolf.
Why this is typical: AG is all over the classy pop culture. SP thinks everyone is hot, especially olderish gentlemen. I consistently reference stuff that is obscure/underrated. SP is often confused. Oh, and the silent factor is IMS, who is blissfully ignorant of pop culture goingson.
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RIP Howard Zinn, 1922-2010
“I would encourage people to look around them in their community and find an organization that is doing something that they believe in, even if that organization has only five people, or ten people, or twenty people, or a hundred people. And to look at history and understand that when change takes place it takes place as a result of large, large numbers of people doing little things...
Thoughts on the iPad
We’ve always been Macs. When I was born, my family owned some old Mac (or maybe it wasn’t old then). It was a clunker with a tiny black and white screen. We used it to play games like Kid Pix. When I was in elementary school, we upgraded to one with a color screen, which is when we first got the Internet. I didn’t pay attention to model name or anything like that. Several years...
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If you never take it seriously, you never get hurt. If you never get hurt, you...
– Penny Lane, Almost Famous (via movieoftheday)
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