Anne is ok. She is decent and well liked. Well, no one exactly loves her especially, but she has never been in a quarrel and no one wants to quarrel with her. She works the morning shift at the downtown hospital, medical scrubs the color of a faded lily pad. During her lunch break, she obediently follows a fellow coworker, kindly, to hold a sign of ( Read more... )

--My girlfriend gets very angry whenever I wash my sheets, assuming that I've just slept with someone and am hiding the evidence ( Read more... )

Washington: Hey Rwanda.
Rwanda: Wassup ‘merica?
Washington: What do you guys do with all your dead bodies?
Rwanda: What do you mean? Cricket is a great sport.
Washington: Yeah, cricket is fine. How do you dispose of the bodies?
Rwanda: Haha, silly ‘merica. We just hack ‘em, we don’t pack ‘em.

Pictures from the Real O.C. (August 8th, 2005)


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Marissa: I shot someone Sum'.

Vascular Surgeon: John, I am sorry son, you can no longer eat cheese.

John: (Rises from the gurney. Puts up dukes. Two sweaty handshakes: one across the face, one into the collar bone). Now, surgeon, you have been beaten down to a pediatrician. Anything else that I love you won’t let me eat?

When the cancer worm finally bores through my heart, I will be ready to go. Or when that pillaging of tuberculosis completes its journey from toe nail to teeth shale, I’ll return my body to the State, in repose, or in situ, or however they need to arrange my clever frame. My last stand is my last stand-the ultimate breath I draw-before I wink at ( Read more... )

Things I do not understand yet:

-Ulysses
-communism
-“ a desire for beauty without an aesthetic ideal”
-Saul Bellow
-Susan Sontag
-“prissy, embattled bastions of the quiet left”

Things I understand:-octopus on a train in a bucket half-full ( Read more... )

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My birthday takes place on a Wednesday next month, the worst day of the week for a birthday.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: My birth date (month and day) was the first draft ball pulled. And if they didn't use balls, draft ticket pulled.

What is the date?