Coffee

ITALIAN GENIUS: Use your fucking brain. DUTCH GENIUS: I don’t feel like it. I’d rather use… my arms [they embrace] ITALIAN GENIUS: [His face mashed into the DUTCH GENIUS's shoulder, not without affection] You’re such … a freaking… murmbrling… DUTCH GENIUS: Love is painful, no? ITALIAN GENIUS: Yeah. And music is popular. What’s fer dinner? [...]

Drama-mine

My best friend Andrew Leland, who is a huge supporter of this blog — really, it wouldn’t exist without his encouragement — is participating in something called “National Magazine Day” this Saturday at the Booksmith on Haight — informational link here. He’s on the panel at 6 p.m. I just wanted to post that to [...]

Prevaricated Sun Preference

[Ten hours later] DERRICK: I hate cats, I like dogs JELLIE: I know DERRICK: What if I adopted a cat instead JELLIE: Call me Julie. JULIE: Your apartment is too small. [They get married.] DERRICK: I want a divorce JULIE: No. [Julie's uncle murders Derrick.] DERRICK’S DANISH COUSIN, JAMIE MEEPENSTONE: Hey JULIE: Hey meeps DERRICK: [...]

DAN: What’s for lunch? DALE: What’s your fucking problem? DAN: It’s lunch-time. DALE: Maybe fat pieces of shit like you should skip lunch now and again. Global poverty, ecology, so on. DAN: I’m allowed to eat lunch. DALE: You’re also allowed to engage in sodomy. DAN: You ever seen a fat man cry? DALE: Ever [...]

VOTE KNOME

Don’t let the mouth-breathers win! Vote for the Neon Knome!!!

Tuesday Roundup

Fun Jason Polan project in NYC w/ Esopus I myself have sampled F. “Breadstixxxx” Horrorwicky’s Fish Stew, and can attest to its excellence, and so it’s a great boon that Waffle Songs has posted her interpretation. Sometimes I find myself mentally making epigrammatic observations about the little Nicholson Bakery pleasure-giving tabs that hang off of [...]

“You can’t even laugh / in Manhattan”

(via AMilonakis)

Progressive Rakes

JIM: Do you think it’s a good idea, wearing that phallic bolo tie? CEE:  I don’t know. I’m a sexual umbrella. JIM: Okay. Send me an email later. CEE: Okay. I think I understand. JIM: Okay. That’s no problem. CEE: Fine, JIM: Okay, that sounds good. You got it, you get it CEE: Yes, I [...]

Drink the long draught, Dan

Get yr last clean dirty shirt out of the wardrobe, because Tonight: Saturday, February 20th 7PM to 10PM Grace Cathedral 1100 California Street @ Taylor EPISCODISCO! featuring: Nodzzzzz, a wonderful band A colossal floral installation by E. Parks Kibbey. (She’s been posting some lovely lookin previews; I am mostly unashamed to admit I think flowers [...]