November 2011
“That’s the whole secret, is if you hire great people and you don’t mess them up...”
– Woody Allen on directing actors, from Woody Allen: A Documentary, which yes, of course you should watch (via lonelysandwich)
Sunday night I found myself kind of half-crying into my leftover pumpkin pie about the meaninglessness of existence and the fact that I was too short to reach most of the...
“Changing the subject is one of the most difficult arts to master, the key to...”
– Cesar Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter.
I was at a reading recently where someone cited this. I quickly pulled out my phone when I heard it and typed it into the bottom of my “Thxgiving to do list”. If only I had meditated on that very difficult art a little more...
“My sister says that after we go bowling she wants to meet her sorority sister in the city and then maybe “go out.” And she wants to know if we want to go out with her. I told her we don’t really…do that.”
2 min later.
“Well if your sister doesn’t wanna go bowling with us that’s no big deal I mean she can meet her friend—”
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“Sam Meek, 27, who was laid off in September when his Connecticut hedge fund...”
– HOME-COOKED MEALS AND BEERS ON THE SOFA?????????! Can you imagine?
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“The theory that the McRib’s elusiveness is a direct result of the vagaries of...”
– A Conspiracy of Hogs: The McRib as Arbitrage
This is the best conspiracy theory of the McRib I have yet to read.
update
Saw the no pain no gain guy on the bridge again. I know this because he passed me on his bike again, and turned around again and said, “Hey! I saw you yesterday!”
“Yeah!” I said, “Hi!”
Can you imagine this happening on the train? Maybe it’s easier to say things as you’re moving by.
He reached his (gloved) hand out, maybe to thumbs up, or maybe to...
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no pain no gain
I made it all the way up the first hill of the Williamsburg Bridge today without getting off my bike and walking it. It’s so hard, which hasn’t stopped being WEIRD to me because people do it every day without comment. People are always riding by me, old people, chubby people, people with one leg (!!). I want to gather everyone together and be like, You know this is an achievement,...
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