Showing posts with label Snippets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Snippets. Show all posts
Friday, October 10, 2008
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Seven Things
I've been tagged!!! I feel so honored! Thank you, Abigail!
The rules are as follows:
# Link to the person who tagged you
# Post the rules on your blog.
# Share seven random and/or weird facts about yourself on your blog.
# Tag seven random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs.
# Leave a comment on their blogs so that they know they have been tagged.
1. I am missing one of my bottom molars. My mom and my sister are both missing the same tooth. I had a baby tooth, but the permanent one never came in. It's an eastern European thing apparently.
2. I usually order the same breakfast at diners: two eggs, over-easy, bacon or sausage, homefries, and wheat toast. I always have to eat the egg whites first, then I dip one slice of bread in one egg yolk. Then the other slice in the other egg. Then I eat the bacon or sausage. Finally, I eat the homefries with gobs and gobs of ketchup.
3. I'll take cheese over chocolate 9 out of 10 times.
4. I was a life-long nail biter until I looked at my fingers under a microscope in high school biology.
5. I have met two of my favorite authors: Anne Rice and Tom Robbins. Both times, I felt like I could die happy.
6. I spent a summer in Italy when I was in high school. While there, I was introduced to fresh apricots. I ate so many that summer that I literally turned orange from too much beta-carotene.
7. I love the Food Network! Bobby Flay is my man!
I'm tagging 2 of my favorite ladies:
Allison
Melissa
The rules are as follows:
# Link to the person who tagged you
# Post the rules on your blog.
# Share seven random and/or weird facts about yourself on your blog.
# Tag seven random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs.
# Leave a comment on their blogs so that they know they have been tagged.
1. I am missing one of my bottom molars. My mom and my sister are both missing the same tooth. I had a baby tooth, but the permanent one never came in. It's an eastern European thing apparently.
2. I usually order the same breakfast at diners: two eggs, over-easy, bacon or sausage, homefries, and wheat toast. I always have to eat the egg whites first, then I dip one slice of bread in one egg yolk. Then the other slice in the other egg. Then I eat the bacon or sausage. Finally, I eat the homefries with gobs and gobs of ketchup.
3. I'll take cheese over chocolate 9 out of 10 times.
4. I was a life-long nail biter until I looked at my fingers under a microscope in high school biology.
5. I have met two of my favorite authors: Anne Rice and Tom Robbins. Both times, I felt like I could die happy.
6. I spent a summer in Italy when I was in high school. While there, I was introduced to fresh apricots. I ate so many that summer that I literally turned orange from too much beta-carotene.
7. I love the Food Network! Bobby Flay is my man!
I'm tagging 2 of my favorite ladies:
Allison
Melissa
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Books Are Cool
I'm currently reading The Pilots Wife, by Anita Shreve. I've read a few of her other books, and they definitely cannot hold a candle to this one---where did that come from? "Hold a candle?" Huh. The first person who can explain the origin of the aforementioned phrase will earn 5 Cool Points.
You know how when you're little, you don't really, truly understand what is happening? Like, for instance, a family member dies, and you are too young to really comprehend what has happened? Yeah, like that. You go through your life, trying to explain to others what went down, and as the years pass, you realize you've got the story all wrong?
Well, Ms. Shreve does a brilliant job of verbalizing this:
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"The more Kathryn learned about Jack--and she had no doubt now that she would learn more...--the more she would have to rethink the past. As if having to tell a story over and over, each time a little differently because a fact had changed, a detail had altered. And if enough details were altered, or the facts were important enough, perhaps the story veered in a direction very different from its first telling."
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Books affect me and I hope they do the same for you, dear readers. Go forth and read. READ I tell you! Read!
You know how when you're little, you don't really, truly understand what is happening? Like, for instance, a family member dies, and you are too young to really comprehend what has happened? Yeah, like that. You go through your life, trying to explain to others what went down, and as the years pass, you realize you've got the story all wrong?
Well, Ms. Shreve does a brilliant job of verbalizing this:
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"The more Kathryn learned about Jack--and she had no doubt now that she would learn more...--the more she would have to rethink the past. As if having to tell a story over and over, each time a little differently because a fact had changed, a detail had altered. And if enough details were altered, or the facts were important enough, perhaps the story veered in a direction very different from its first telling."
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Books affect me and I hope they do the same for you, dear readers. Go forth and read. READ I tell you! Read!
Snippets I've Enjoyed
While rummaging through an old journal, I found the following quotes which I transcribed from Tom Robbins' book, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, during the summer of 2000. Enjoy.
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The pumpkin is a faceless head, its true identity know only to the Halloween knife and certain deputies of the pie police.
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Domesticity shrinks the soul of a beast.
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People of zee wurl, relax.
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Her eyes were like chocolate-dipped cherry bombs with their fuses lit.
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All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.
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None of us is much more than a pimple on the ass-end of creation, so let's not get carried away with ourselves....Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it.
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The sun rapidly resumed wilting them with its nuclear halitosis.
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In a universe where flux is fundamental, it can be argued that even change for the worse is preferable to no change at all.
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Extinction is a consequence of overspecialization.
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They awoke the next morning wound in the rusty anchor chains of hangover.
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No one would ever blast a hole in the magic tutu of her childhood.
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No artist worthy of the name gave a flying fuck whether or not any special interest group--miniscule or multitudinous, benign or malicious--took offense of their heartfelt creations.
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The people who get to name things have psychological ownership of those things.
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The universe is organized anarchy.
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I like to drink just enough to change the temperature in the brain room.
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I adore Tom Robbins. I actually got to see him in New Mexico during the tour for Villa Incognito. He read an excerpt and during one of his pregnant pauses, I couldn't restrain myself and shouted "I love you Tom!" He looked right at me (at least I think he did--he was wearing dark sunglasses) and said "I love you too, baby."
I nearly died.
_________________________________________________________
The pumpkin is a faceless head, its true identity know only to the Halloween knife and certain deputies of the pie police.
*
Domesticity shrinks the soul of a beast.
*
People of zee wurl, relax.
*
Her eyes were like chocolate-dipped cherry bombs with their fuses lit.
*
All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.
*
None of us is much more than a pimple on the ass-end of creation, so let's not get carried away with ourselves....Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it.
*
The sun rapidly resumed wilting them with its nuclear halitosis.
*
In a universe where flux is fundamental, it can be argued that even change for the worse is preferable to no change at all.
*
Extinction is a consequence of overspecialization.
*
They awoke the next morning wound in the rusty anchor chains of hangover.
*
No one would ever blast a hole in the magic tutu of her childhood.
*
No artist worthy of the name gave a flying fuck whether or not any special interest group--miniscule or multitudinous, benign or malicious--took offense of their heartfelt creations.
*
The people who get to name things have psychological ownership of those things.
*
The universe is organized anarchy.
*
I like to drink just enough to change the temperature in the brain room.
______________________________________________________
I adore Tom Robbins. I actually got to see him in New Mexico during the tour for Villa Incognito. He read an excerpt and during one of his pregnant pauses, I couldn't restrain myself and shouted "I love you Tom!" He looked right at me (at least I think he did--he was wearing dark sunglasses) and said "I love you too, baby."
I nearly died.
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