Florilegia
but I can’t french braid with my gross finger, and the idea of someone else touching my head is giving me hives.
SOON
Oh man, have we resolved to French Braid at the same time? Archer’s front-and-side one yesterday had me looking up instructional Youtube videos. Again.
You wanna add another candidate? It’s like the Republican primary is like a season of American Idol in reverse, where every week, you just add another idiot. …First you guys wanted (Michele) Bachmann, then (Rick) Perry — now (Chris) Christie? You know what, Republican base? Meet me at camera three!
(To camera three.) Have you ever considered the possibility that maybe your candidates aren’t the problem — maybe it’s you? You’re hard to please or figure out! You’re unrealistic! I mean, you’re pro-life, yet — (rolls tape of GOP members applauding Texas’s death penalty) — what was that? You’re afraid of ‘death panels,’ yet for uninsured coma patients — (rolls tape of GOP members shouting ‘YEAH!!!’ when Ron Paul was asked if a patient without health insurance should be allowed to die) — that’s the crowd: ‘YEAH!!!’ You guys ‘support the troops’ — well except for Captain Creatine over here (rolls tape of gay U.S. Army soldier who asked GOP candidates if they’d repeal DADT — and was booed by GOP debate crowd).
It’s like the Republican base is at war with its own talking points: ‘I want someone who’s gonna cut taxes — and balance the budget! Someone who’s a skilled orator — that doesn’t talk all fancy! The child of poor immigrants — who will build a fence to keep them out of this country! Someone who’s strong enough for a man — but Ph-balanced for a woman!
…It’s like your ideal candidate is a rare, super-heavy element that can only exist in a particular particle accelerator. And even then, only for a fraction of a second. Before you all remember how much you hate science.
You guys need to take a long, hard look in the mirror, and not come away thinking ‘Hey, there’s something wrong with this mirror.’
” —JON STEWART, on media-fed rumors that New Jersey governor Chris Christie may enter the GOP presidential race — as well as the hypocritical sentiments of the Republican party — on The Daily Show. (via valjeans)
This whole bit was brilliant, favorite line in the whole thing was “Have you ever considered the possibility that maybe your candidates aren’t the problem — maybe it’s you?”
-Joe
This quote is perfection.
(via thesarcasmstore)
Can you please, starting from now, fill your notebooks with all your influences? That way, when some poor student is trying to figure out a cogent explanation of when you put in a certain line about the Cornish language, she will not find herself eating wallpaper chips and crying into her earl grey.
Cheers.
My friend Jess and I frequently joke about our future biographers and what a mess of a time they’ll have tracing our various conversations, which sometimes begin online, continue in a journal, get interrupted, see a written reference to something that WILL be discussed online but actually never is, and then get lost in the post.
Admittedly have also been thinking about this recently because an archivist actually asked for my “papers.”
I’m going to be all like ‘Oh, are you referring to those primates who bathe in hot springs to escape cold winter air? Man, they’re so cool. Hey, ‘d’you’ ever hear much about bees…?’
I am so delighted by your newfound enthusiasm for bees, I cannot even begin to say.
The Guardian
Dear Guardian,
I have met plenty of people who have finished the Wake. I have finished the Wake. Writing about it being incomprehensible is not clever; it’s a tired and lazy response. You are a twit.
Love,
Stephanie ‘I fucking love Joyce’ Boland
(via quaffalyre)
Be fair. It took you a full year of weekly in-depth study to finish it. Also neither you nor James ever really talk about it as a novel, but as a combination of archaelogical site and mystic glyph which you’re having a fantastic time deciphering. I’m not saying it doesn’t deserve mythic status; just that I think there’s truth to the statement of HOW it has achieved that, which I think is supported by the way people who HAVE read it talk about it.
