August 2009
20 posts
All is Love, By Karen O and the Kids
Karen O, of...
The Opposite of Selling
Delivery Guy (from Thai place 10 blocks away): Why did you order from so far away?
Me (thinking he must mean, "how did you find us?"): Recommended by a friend. Loved your food. Have been ordering in at the office ever since!
Delivery Guy: There are, like, 10 thai restaurants closer than us...
Me (now realizing he is not psyched): Um... sorry?
Delivery Guy: No... I mean, I guess its fine.... if you like it.
“I definitely crushed them lyrically, but I think the people who won represented...”
– DeStorm Power, of Bed-Stuy, in an interview in the Daily News after coming in second in Lea & Perrins “That’s a wRAP” contest, which challenged hip-hop star wanna-bes across the nation with producing and performing their own rap videos celebrating a new, thicker version of the...
“The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression.”
– Brian Sutton Smith
“Joint Vandal Hero”
– My brother, anagram style. Lose time here.
“Homo”
– A letter received by Ted Olsen, former Solicitor General under George W. Bush, after he decided to take on the legalization of gay marriage nationwide.
The article in today’s NYTimes is wonderful reminder that people are much more complicated than we give them credit for.
Do your thing Ted.
