December 2009
19 posts
Nerd pickup line for tonight
“It’s 2010, baby—let’s make it the year we make contact.”
Pork sonnet
Judge not the man who strives to keep kosher, His people’s beliefs may rule and guide him. Such prejudice is base; there’s nothing gaucher, Matters this holy aren’t subject to whim.
If he choose to abstain from all shellfish, All insects, all mammals with cloven hoof, Respect his decision, it is his wish, The fabric of his life; its warp and woof.
But know there’s one beast to make him crumble,...
Cookbook idea for Angela Lansbury
Burger, She Wrote.
Spring Break in Cancun with Werner Herzog.
Me asking Nicolas Cage about the way his character...
Shortly afterward I made a visit to her basement studio in a building at M.I.T., where she was monitoring and recording the Boston Harbor at all hours for days and days. She had endless tapes of this same vast site (which I later explored in my “Maritime Rites” on the Coast Guard’s Nantucket Lightship II) in which she listened to “pure time” like a spy.
Those endless moments of nothing except...
Six-word story
He stumbled forward; she stumbled backward.
“If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him.”
—Sun Tzu
Mission statement
“Which way are we going?” I asked, “or what direction are we heading for or are we on the way back from somewhere else?”
Flann O’Brien, The Third Policeman
