March 2009
23 posts
Take 1
In Holland - the land of Dutch You wouldn’t think they amount to that much But when it comes to beer drinking It’s the reverse of your thinking ‘cause they really come through in the clutch
“Sometimes I get the feeling that Scotland is just one big fraternity.”
– JW on the legions of Scots in Amsterdam this past week.
“And sexy was had by all!”
– JW…It’s like something a sexy viking warlord would say to his band of raiders. that isn’t to say the viking himself would be sexy. no. indeed he would probably be most unsexy. rather, he would be a viking obsessed with sexy to the point in which instead of seeking plunder, he...
“Tommy Lasorda, the tournament’s official mascot, held court during batting...”
Remind you of anyone?
In the second century B.C. the natives of Gaul had begun to develop a taste for the Romans’ vices. One, in particular, had gone straight to their heads: wine. The Gauls, who had never come across the drink before, had not the slightest idea of how to handle it. Rather than diluting it with water, as the Romans did, they preferred to down it neat, wallowing in drunken binges, and...
“sick ending…. bottom 9, 1 out bases loaded 2 run deficit, Youk walks in...”
– AT
“AHHH I have had SO much sex today”
– guy at the NBN staff party to two friends
Nietzche + Family Circus →
(via rockybalboa)
Off I went to college, as kids my age are ought I listened to my teachers, learned ev’ry thing they taught I pulverized my liver—While sleeping in past two Which brings me to the story I now relate to you It was at a weekend party, the kind you never miss The booze flowed like a river, wetter than a wet kiss I saw a girl across the room—She was playing at flip cup So I decided to...
Perspective, people
Ambrosia guy: Could I have everyone's attention! Being that its reading week, we are running on a perpetual shortage of plates and glassware, so if I could go around and collect anything from anyone who's done, that would be greatly appreciated.
Student: Wow, like this is what it must have been like to live during the Great Depression.
Based on the last two posts you’d think I’d just discovered iTunes and screenshots.
“my whole life is bull-shitting,
otherwise people would hate me”
– KL
Movie critics need to stop using the word ‘zeitgeist.’ Yes, it is an awesome word. No, it does not make your review looks smarter or better.
“The Oxford comma is like the distinguished facial hair of punctuation.”
Battle Hymn of Reporting in Diverse Communities
Mine eyes have seen the glory of a McCormick Trib sunrise
I am stamping out an article and gouging out my eyes
There can never be such thing as a journalism high
The truth is marching on.
The only thing that gets to me more than couples/spouses who actually call each other “honey” are writers who use the term to try and instill in their characters a plastic-y realism which in turn they try to spin into some sort of subtle suburban middle-class melancholy. Couldjanot? kthx
A: some kids put stuff like that in their blunts
M: don't mix and match [drugs]
M: rule #1
A: one drug at a time!
M: b/c its like babysitting too many kids.
M: too much to account for.
M: and then eventually when you dont realize it one of those kids you are trying to babysit kills you
A: yeah
A: with a machine gun
Overheard at Norris
microwavecake:
“So I went to this bar this weekend and some ladies told me I was pretty fly and I was like, what the hell?”
—Lanky red head (presumably an engineer) in a nasally voice, on the phone with presumably his mother while pacing around the tables outside the food court.
“The Country Bears (2002) is the first movie I remember being disdainful towards...”
– JW 