quotes

dreams and cold, hard reality

Posted in quotes on June 10th at 5:36pmcomment

kara: i had a dream i had an ipad and was a reading a magazine on it and it was awesome

kara: sadly, i hear magazines are so far not awesome on the ipad

eric: yeah

eric: people are still figuring it out

eric: guess it started off better than the web though

eric: early web pages were hilarious

kara: true

kara: i mean, i should be able to switch to ‘paperless’ subscriptions on my current magazines, just like i can opt out of paper statements for my credit card and other bills

eric: haha, the publishing industry is so far away from being able to figure that out

eric: the whole thing is like this incredibly brittle porcelain vase being propped up by lots of crossed fingers & old money

so true

Posted in quotes on March 15th at 6:29pmcomment

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

~ Rebecca West

via angie

no, but admittedly I didn’t have my face near that end

Posted in quotes on March 1st at 6:39pm1 Comment

me: maybe i should just move to new zealand and work in tourism and walk around a glacier all day

me: sounds good to me

eric: pet koalas

me: YES!

me: oh my god

me: so cute

me: so sleepy and cute and so soft

eric: did their farts smell like coughdrops?

(they sound like pure joy)

Posted in miscellany & errata, quotes on October 19th at 5:57pmcomment

from the madeloud.com review of the edward sharpe and the magnetic zeroes album:

Make no mistake, though: Edward Sharpe & the Magnificent Zeros are no jam band. Don’t think Phish; instead, imagine what Arcade Fire would sound like if they’d sprouted up in Southern California, hanging out in a sun-baked backyard rather than hunkered down in a chilly old church in Canada.

me: i think you put it better

me: and more succinctly

eric: yeah, maybe “chilly old church” means their butt

eric: and “hunkered down” means they put a stick up in it

gotta get some v.c. together for this

Posted in quotes on October 12th at 9:14pmcomment

post-dinner, laden with unwanted leftovers and in search of a homeless person to whom we could offer free food, how many homeless people did we see after walking around for 15 minutes? NONE. WTF. we started studying every person we saw, judging whether they seemed homeless. none did. none were. frustrated:

me: this is ridiculous!

jula: usually there are - i mean, this is hollywood.

terry: where are they? i can’t believe we can’t find a single homeless person! where are they hiding?? …is there an app for that?

just SAY something!

Posted in quotes on September 10th at 11:19pmcomment

tonight jula and i watched ‘gone with the wind’ (her first time, my second) and during one of scarlett and rhett’s frustrating miscommunication-based fights:

jula: oh my god, can’t they just hug it out??

this is why i love my mom

Posted in quotes on September 8th at 12:04pmcomment

one reason, anyway. after i looked at our australia/new zealand trip itinerary:

me: wow this is so expensive

me: i owe you forever

mom: naw

mom: you’re worth it

mom: :)

mom: you might go back there some day - but i doubt if we will

me: i don’t know if i will - it’s so far away!

mom: i’m sure nathan (your future husband) will want to go there

mom: fillion

bacon makes everything better

Posted in quotes, this is what happened today on July 10th at 12:07pm1 Comment

my parents usually have turkey bacon for sunday breakfast but a few weeks ago my mom fried up some real bacon she had leftover, prompting dad to say yesterday, out of the blue:

there are probably things we should carry regular bacon in the house for. …like, everything.

this week’s best dollhouse quotes

Posted in quotes on May 2nd at 6:02pmcomment

carrots! medicinal carrots! personal use medicinal carrots…that were here when i moved in…and i’m holding it for a friend.

i totally want this print; i totally do not want my bodily functions scored

Posted in i must retire to my nerdery, quotes on April 23rd at 10:40pmcomment

re: this awesome time traveler essentials print by ryan north:

eric: hehe

eric: yeah

eric: i saw that the other day

eric: tempting

eric: especially as a print

kara: i like the ‘woo’ on the wing cross-section

kara: ha in this [print] he gives the chemical formula for synthetic birth control

kara: this is totally the kind of thing that would be great to have on the back of the bathroom door so you can contemplate it while sitting there doing your business

eric: mike has that one from questionable content that just says “mmm… that’s good poopin”

kara: i think that would freak me out

kara: i mean, i don’t need my BMs evaluated like it’s the olympics or something

eric: 6.8