No Sense

"It made no sense to have such a hard woman with such soft bread" -- Kate Manning from "My Notorious Life".

Fellow

"It took a real fellow to do that."  -- Umpire Billy Evans on Ray Chapman's apology for an earlier argument. see Hit By Pitch, by Molly Lawless.

Coffee & vanilla porter an acceptable substitute for human companionship. See you later.

Great moments in film 2013

"There's birds in here". Prince Avalanche.

Post. Drink.

Drink. Post.

Geoff Dyer Takes His Seat

"Sometimes when people give up their seat for me—as they ought—they accompany this generous gesture with the words “I’ve been sitting all day.” “Me too!” I say, happily taking the weight off my feet. If I’ve sat on my arse all day—and it’s definitely my English arse I sit on, not an American ass—then what I most want to do come evening is sit on it some more. But I do like to change where I sit on it. In the day I’m at my desk in one of those Herman Miller Aeron chairs that make one feel like a mid-level executive with back problems. For a while in the afternoon I move to a red leather chair that tilts back like a prototype of the first-ever business-class airplane seat in order to read, i.e. induce a nap. Having recovered from my nap, I put in a further quarter-hearted shift in my Aeron before moving to the living-room sofa for some real sitting: sitting in the sense of almost lying down with all parts of the body evenly supported. “Up go the feet,” I say out loud and from then until bed-time they come down only reluctantly."

 from article, about writers sitting, in The New Republic.

 h/t: Salon

In the spirit of experimentation . . .

. . . I'll have to try Plato. "[The letters between Plath and Sassoon] suggest that, along with reading Plato, erotic spanking was part of their experimental lovemaking." From NYRB review by Terry Castle.

What'll it be -- a crusta or a daisy?

Technically speaking, a cocktail is a type of mixed drink containing spirits, sugar, water, and bitters. . . . Now the word serves as a catchall term for any alcoholic mixed drink, but the cocktail was originally just one member of a family that included things like flips, nogs, daisies, cobblers, crustas, smashes, slings, sours, and the granddaddy of them all, punch.

 Ezra Glinter on The Golden Age of Cocktails:
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/06/19/drinking-in-the-golden-age/

Bar talk: "The V.A. wants me to get laid. So that it will mellow me out."

Bar talk

 "You can win a fight and still get your tooth kicked in. I'm at the age now where I want to say 'I could totally kick your ass but I don't want to get my tooth kicked in.'"

More Orson Welles: I've always thought there were three sexes: men, women, and actors.

Orson Welles on the movies

 "It's the least interesting art medium for me to watch that there is. Except ballet - that's the only thing that's less interesting."




From "My Lunches With Orson"

Prophecy fulfilled

Bar talk:           "What's the short guy's name? Cause we're always doing shots together and I'm like "Dude, we've got to stop doing shots or I'll never remember your name.""

Abraham called Father of Monotheism, but it is the other way around. God declared Abraham to be Father of the one people.

Again:

Joy to the freeway
Joy to the cars
Joy to you baby
Wherever you are
Tonight Tonight Tonight

Josh Ritter