I Have a Bedpost Anyway

If I ever got one of these trophy rings, there will be so little silver left, it will look like a wedding ring.

Never going to get one, but I still want it anyway for the novelty.

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Just Like Riding a Bike

  • Me: There’s an art to cunnilingus just as there is an art to fellatio. Reed players are especially good at it.
  • Byrnes: What? They don’t even use their tongues that much. It’s all about the brass.
  • Me: When’s the last time you played?
  • Byrnes: Baby, that’s one skill that never goes away.

Individual Results May Vary

  • Byrnes: I think we took out the Internet with our sex.

It’s All in the Stride

  • Demetrus: Listen, man. I was in Cambridge, and I saw this girl in a white dress coming out of the Harvard T Station. The way she walked into Harvard Square, she looked like she owned the fucking place.
  • Byrnes: That’s my Amber!

This is What Made Me Fall in Love With McKillip’s Writing

“You knew me the moment you saw me. You said I see with the wood’s eyes. That’s why you turned to Laurel. You were afraid of me.”

“Rois—” He was trembling; I could hear the leaves rustle around him. “Yes. You seemed to live in the borderlands of the world I tried to escape. You tossed your heart after every passing breeze. Even after light. You did not seem—”

The word pushed through my throat like two hard stones. “Human.”

[...]

“Corbet.” I swallowed something bitter. “Do you care for me at all? Or do you only need me?”

He breathed a word: yes, or no, or Rois. His hand opened to my face; I felt only cool invisible leaves. I lifted my own hand; in the light our shadows touched.

“You come to me,” he whispered. “Into every dark place. Into every memory. Into the empty places of winter. I go alone and find you with me. Why do you care for me?”

I did not know until I spoke. “Because you are making me human.”

Winter Rose, Patricia A. McKillip

Happy (Belated) Birthday to Me

A lion for a lion.

Analogy, You Fail

The Bush presidency is like being married to a sociopath. A McCain presidency would be more like being married to a drug addict — however badly he behaves, he could always sober up.

– Jonathan Chait, “A McCain Presidency Wouldn’t Be So Bad”

Except continuously making the excuse that your drug addict spouse could sober up leads to the continuation of an unhappy marriage.

We’d Be Surprised on How Much More We Agree Than Disagree

I’m not sure if this is a new lesson, but [campaigning for the American presidency] reinforced my belief that we’re not as divided as our politics would indicate. You meet with the average person—I don’t care whether they’re Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal—they don’t think in labels. They’re not particularly ideological. Everybody is sort of a mix of what you might consider some liberal ideas, what you might consider some conservative ideas. But there is a set of common values that everyone buys into: Everybody thinks you should have to work hard for what you get, everybody believes that things like equal opportunity should be real, not a slogan.

– Barack Obama from “A Conversation with Barack Obama”, Rolling Stone

New Yorker, Take Notes

Left: Bad magazine cover. Right: Good magazine cover.

Proper English is How I Roll

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