memory's outbox
before I forget to tell you...
“See, as tempting as it might be to divide history into the bad guys and the good guys, civilizations tend to evolve more like the Batman franchise, kicking ass part of the time, and reaching unspeakable, ass backwards lows that would embarrass their ancestors at others. Muslim people were doing algebra while we were burning women for having funny birthmarks on their face. They just happen to be going through their Batman and Robin phase.”
“Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds — all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.”
Edward Everett Hale
“Words are the dress of thoughts, which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.”
Lord Chesterfield (aka Philip Dormer Stanhope)
“I didn’t get none of nothing from nobody.”
The quadruple negative - rumored to exist, but never before seen in the wild (as uttered by a high school basketball player and overheard by my friend, his couch, at practice).
“Most of the brothers don’t make the kind of scratch I do.”
Cedric “Cornbread” Maxwell of the Celtics (in 1984) after he endorsed Jesse Helms for re-election and was asked by a reporter if he realized that he might be the only black man in North Carolina voting for Jesse Helms.
“Batman’s Gotham City is Manhattan below Fourteenth Street at eleven minutes past midnight on the coldest night in November.”
Batman writer and editor Dennis O’Neil
Not sure when he said this, but he needs to add a “in the 1970s” to the end, otherwise I am left with an image of Gotham that involves lots of drunk college kids and rich folks.
