Big Vehicle on Nearby Street

Woman on date #3

-- I'm a writer. People tell me my scripts are good, but female leads, period piece, blah, blah blah.  I've had poetry published.  I'm a Renaissance woman stuck into this position as an accountant.

Woman on date #2

-- He went on and on and on about his previous wife.  I said, if you want to get me into bed you shouldn't go on and on about your ex-wife.  He said, yeah, you're right.

Woman on date, next bar table: I hate white wine. It makes me throw up. I like rose. Only French rose, though.

Now this was starting to seem like the old days. -- from "Home" by George Saunders

"You have to drive in L.A. So I got a rent-a-car. I turned on XM Sirius radio and heard Bob Dylan telling jokes. I almost crashed the car."

-- Jesse Malin.
"They were good jokes."

Judicial Sentence of the Day

Furthermore, the sarcastic comments made by her supervisor about her foot, though insensitive, do not rise to the level of a constructive discharge under our caselaw.   Sekiya v. Gates, 508 F.3d 1198, 1200 (Ninth Cir. 2007).

Further Bar Talk

"It is soo hard to find someone who can play both Bruce Wayne and Batman."

Bar talk

"I took the first mind-altering substances of my life, I was whacked on ecstasy and acid, and my roommate at the time worked in a video duplication lab, and he put on The Matrix, which hadn't been released yet, and my mind exploded."

Indifferent Moon Unconcerned Man

St. James' Icebox

I walked around the apartment and looked two or three times inside the refrigerator, so cold, so white, so bare. . . .

       from Cassandra at the Funeral.

Tell me Tell me the answer

You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer

You Chose Wrong

Very nice collection from Choose Your Own Adventures:

http://youchosewrong.tumblr.com/

"Who the fuck is Maria?" -- Justin Townes Earle's then current girlfriend.

. . . ever since moving out, my days had been upside down and strange. I could not tell what season it was, or if I was moving through water or air.




-- Sheila Heti

"To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.". -- Sheila Heti