“ I’m sitting on the porch in my sarong, sipping strong coffee and drawing on a clove cigarette, watching the heavy dusk close over the paddy terraces of Java. Very kick back, so far away from the madness.
The Leaping Horse Post
"Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text."
Jun 01
May 27
Shopping for ssamjang
- Me: Excuse me, can you read Korean?
- Kid: I'm Chinese!
- Me: That's not what I asked you.
May 19
“ I’ve changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done except fuck the president?
— Miles Davis to Nancy Reagan; http://boingboing.net/2012/05/18/miles-davis-turned-to-nancy-re.html
May 10
Your Daily Puzzler, from M. Romney
Same-sex couples should be allowed to adopt children, but they should not be married because children should be raised by a mother and a father.
Melbourne Prince Interview May 6
- Interviewer: You have said in interviews that you impose a basketball team type discipline on your band. What does that mean?
- Prince: That they play 2 win. Otherwise they'll b back-up dancing 4 Robin Thicke.
“ Based upon crowd response any song can b lengthened or shortened with a simple cue: Raspberry Beret’s second verse and bridge can b added if the audience sings louder than r lead singer. :) Also depending upon the diversity of the crowd we can quickly segue in 2 Cool, The Time’s theme song. An urban audience knows all the words to that song whereas folks from Helsinki… well, u get the picture.
— Prince interviewed by an Australian paper
May 04
RIP MCA. Adam Yauch (1964-2012)
Apr 16
“ There are probably more Republican and Democratic analysts or strategists on TV than there are in real life.
— An MSNBC executive
Apr 09
» FilipinosInHawaii.info
Site design by David A.M. Goldberg.
Apr 07
Apr 05
“ Let me make it clear, I’m not castigating any group of people. I’m not doing anything except trying to have a renaissance of our community and get some respect. A number of these restaurants serve high caloric food, bad food, et cetera, but the more important thing, they don’t participate in the community. . . . That’s what I object to, I don’t care who it is…. Who owns these little restaurants? Who owns them? You know, Asians. . .Ninety percent of all the small restaurants in Ward 8, at least. We’re spending our money there, and we demand respect. We demand they participate in community affairs. We demand they give jobs to Ward 8 people regardless of their cultural situation. That’s as American as apple pie.
— Marion Barry / what passes for an apology in Ward 8
“ We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up businesses and dirty shops.They ought to go.
Apr 04
“ [The Supreme Court] is run by hacks dressed up in black robes.
Apr 01
“How about you and your friends, versus me and the Revolution?”
Mar 31
“ Members [of the House of Representatives] call themselves gentlemen and gentlewomen, because the alternatives would be to call one another polecats and coyotes, or worse, liars, hypocrites, stupid, dumb, demagogues, socialists, communists, none of which lend themselves to the deliberative process so important to the governance of the nation
