Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

If Therefore

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. Matthew 6:22

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

This sentence is non-fiction:

She's being cared for by a non-profit group created by a reclusive multimillionaire named Martine Rothblatt. 


from Lost at Sea -- Jon Ronson

Monday, October 22, 2012

Dreamstuff

Key items from my unpleasant dreams of last night:

1) Someone needed to keep a school yearbook from me, as there was a piece of information in there I shouldn't see.

2) One of the two beers I brought to drink at the social breakfast turned out to be Brown Bag soda, refreshing but not beer.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

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.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

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

Friday, September 7, 2012

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

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

"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."





Thursday, August 23, 2012

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).

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

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."