At the intersection of restlessness and inertia: That's where you'll find me, slowly exploding, over the course of many years.

A great quote from Dashiell Hammett's The Dain Curse that I just read (the quote, not the book. That is to say, I'm still working on the book, but I just read this quote and it sang to me ( Read more... )

From Doctor Watson, regarding Sherlock Holmes, in "The Yellow Face" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( Read more... )

"There are no three words in the English language more evocative than 'shit your pants.'"

--Matt Frederick, 11/15/2009

Man I was doing some reading about Robert Pollard/Guided By Voices and came upon this amazing passage:

GBV’s collective athletic skills came in handy when the band played The Beastie Boys and Billy Corgan in a pickup game of basketball. “We fucking smoked them - it was unfair,” Bob said in a Magnet interview. “We were hanging around with Kim and ( Read more... )

There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who think there are two kinds of people in this world, and those who know better.