February 2012
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Feb 29th
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“(To a drummer who didn’t want to solo) You’ve got it! If you don’t want to play,...”
– Thelonious Monk [His advice is ringing true to me these days and I keep going back to the list]
Feb 29th
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THE A/V CLUB: Did you ever try being the Smothers Brothers?
RANDY SKLAR: We couldn’t. We couldn’t do that. I don’t think we could do that.
AVC: Because you’re both dumb.
JASON SKLAR: Yes!
RS: Right. We both play the dumb one.
JS: And our mom liked the Smothers Brothers best. Is that bad?
Feb 29th
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Feb 28th
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“It takes a lot of courage to stand up in coffeehouse and come out in favor of...”
– Tom Lehrer
Feb 28th
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Feb 28th
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Feb 27th
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“And if you don’t underestimate me, I won’t underestimate you”
– Bob Dylan, “Dear Landlord”
Feb 27th
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Feb 27th
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Feb 27th
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Feb 26th
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Feb 25th
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“You have to dig it to dig it, you dig?”
– Thelonious Monk
Feb 25th
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Feb 25th
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Feb 25th
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Feb 24th
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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“I’ve always been at odds with communities. And leaders.”
– Pablo Cortez, Cortez on Jupiter by Ernest Hogan [Don’t mind me, just in an interesting headspace today]
Feb 23rd
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“Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war for...”
– Pablo Picasso
Feb 23rd
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Feb 22nd
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The Launderer's Prayer
Our washer, which art in the basement, hallowed be thy spin; thy Kenmore come, thy rinse be done, in whites as it is in colors. Give us this day our daily cycle, and forgive us our overloads, as we forgive them that perm press against us. And lead us not into Home Depot, but deliver us from vibrations. For thine is the Whirlpool, the impeller and the glory, For top load and front load, Amen. ...
Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 21st
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Feb 21st
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Feb 21st
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Feb 21st
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Feb 21st
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Feb 21st
Feb 20th
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Feb 20th
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Feb 20th
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“There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Feb 20th
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Feb 20th
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“That’s what I like about you, Chris. You always run with the joke for ten...”
– My friend Alyson, a couple years ago. A line that’s obviously stuck with me.
Feb 20th
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Feb 18th
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“Love something besides magic, in the arts. Get inspired by a particular poet,...”
– Teller (as in Penn &…) offering advice to an aspiring magician And, frankly, making me think a bit about photography in an… odd direction.
Feb 18th
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Feb 18th
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Feb 17th
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“The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our...”
– Robert Anton Wilson
Feb 17th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 15th
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Feb 14th
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Feb 14th
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“Taking heat from idiots—idiot Republican voters, idiot douchebigots, idiot...”
– Dan Savage
Feb 14th
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Me: Oh c'mon, Lindsay! You're a rough and rugged woman from the Midwest.
Lindsay: Only a few of those are true.
Me: Please tell me the "woman" part is one of them. I'd have to re-evaluate my crush otherwise.
Feb 14th