Matthew quote: The Kansas Carrot Cake pancakes from IHOP will put you into a coma, but it's well worth the coma.

An amusing text from my _boy_ today:

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Story from work: Steve was on the street, heard someone playing New Edition (old school Bobby Brown). Turned and saw huge guy groovin in a tiny red Ford Focus. He had cut out aluminum pie pans and mounted them on his wheels as spinners. Marcus called him the frugal gangsta.

Aaron on Hillary: "She reminds me of Senator Palpatine."

(He added, in an evil voice, "Something - something - something - dark side," a quote from the TV show Family Guy.)

A Boy funny:

In unpacking boxes, we found a library book. I handed it to Matthew. The title was Goodbye to Guilt and it was a self-help book. He examined it and said, "Oh geez...I checked that out from the Wilmington Library." (Which means it's about eight years overdue ( Read more... )

More of the awesomeness that is my _boy_. He just sent me this text:

FYI: Crowley's OTO lists Swinburne as a saint of their Gnostic Catholic Church.

But of course. ROFL Oh, those mad Victorians and the adoration they've inspired ever since...

A succinct political conversation that nonetheless sums it all up somehow ( Read more... )

Does anyone else read/like Thomas Hardy?

I cannot decide whether I like or dislike The Mayor of Casterbridge even though I just finished reading it for maybe the fourth or fifth time in my life. It's very weird. One minute I think it's genius and the next I think it's annoying. It wrings my heart but then I feel angry over it. The women ( Read more... )

My funny brother. I think I raised him right.

We were talking in email about the movie Billy Budd (1962), my beloved Terence Stamp's first film.

I said I thought it had a significant gay subtext.

mrghoul replied with the following:

Well, sure, it COULD be interpreted that way... But so could a lot of things that aren't necessarily gay. Like a ( Read more... )

"I want us to start rapping, just so we can start a feud."
-our friend Josh to our friend thesaunterer

My LJ friend in the UK, joysilence, has once again slain me with her pen. (Or keyboard, as it may be.) I went into the next room and tried to quote what she wrote to Boy, and couldn't hold myself upright for laughing ( Read more... )