The Picket Line

My favorite thing about a group of workers going on strike is the opportunity to refer to people as scabs.

Damn Dude

Damn, dude. This bread has nine grains.

Harry Arno

"After they talked to him for two hours he spent the rest of the night in a detective-division holding cell. The next morning Harry told the Crimes-Against-Persons detectives it was just as easy to fix eggs the right way, over easy, for [Hell's] sake, as it was to fry them till they were stiff as leather. One of the detectives let him know the eggs were from the Cuban joint down the street. Call them up if he wanted to complain."

--Elmore Leonard, "Pronto," p. 35

When you say that it can't be no lie

Happy New Year.

Fat the trim

Twas a somber mood when I ate the last of the Thanksgiving pie.
Twas twice the feeling when to the last of the leftovers I said "Goodbye."

By Chuck Klosterman

"We're also the same age. Considering that the population of the state is only 680,000, it's not totally unthinkable to imagine we could have somehow met. But I really doubt it. She was the homecoming queen at Bismarck Century High School, which means she probably didn't go to many Ratt concerts."

and

". . . following any event on Twitter radically amplifies the illusion of its import. It makes you believe things matter far more than they do."

From here.

Rooftop hopping has its drawbacks

Does anyone still read blogs?

Does anybody still write them?

Let me know.