godthedog

i think i'll start reading books of short stories during the school year. seems like a good way to keep my sanity without making too big a commitment, and i'm embarrassed at how few short stories i've actually read.

haven't most civilized western countries started to have declining populations in the last 10 or 20 years?

buffets seem to me some sort of uniquely american phenomenon. are they a typical thing outside the US?

i close the bedroom door every night because my girlfriend doesn't want the cat sleeping with us, and i can hear the cat whining outside the door right now for me to let him in. such a sad and lonely sound.

isn't quitting a job something you sort of automatically succeed at doing? how do you only "try" to do that?

this was not good.

i was under the impression that toronto's biggest film culture contribution was looking sort of like new york

Does this seem odd to anyone else? Also, since I'm here anyway: Milky, what's the single stupidest thing you can personally recall seeing on this board? i've always found older girls hot. first, they generally know what they're doing a lot more than younger ones. second, they're smarter. third, since most girls go for guys their own age or older, charming them takes some actual skills. any senior can bang a freshman; not very many can charm the pants off a grad student.

actually, i was thinking about this recently and the correct answer to this is edwin.

i'm a big fan of the fistfights in the 'bourne' series where everyday objects like cookbooks become lethal weapons, managing to be funny and still actually make you think "holy shit, maybe you really COULD kill somebody with a cookbook if you hit them in the right places with it."

you remember way too much about the history of this board.

i have no idea what the hipster consensus on amy winehouse is, but fuck i really like "rehab." those drums sound amazing. if this makes more people want to rip off motown, the world will be a better place.

this reminds me of the days i had inc saved in my phone as Squirtle!. with the exclamation point and everything. my girlfriend was amused when i had to explain that to her.

i enjoy the soaring excess of steinman's stuff, but i can't take it for more than 10 minutes at a time.

uses of the organ in a song: 1. spencer davis group - "gimme some lovin" 2. velvet underground - "sister ray" 3. animals - "house of the rising sun" 4. beatles - "i want you (she's so heavy)" 5. rolling stones - "i got the blues" i'm not the biggest fan of "sister ray," but that organ is killer. and you could probably stick any animals song in at number 3.

my best friend had a coal chamber phase for a while. he also listened to fear factory.

when did milky start taking it upon himself to try to singlehandedly save the chocolate socket?

is the first as shitty and full of itself as the movie is, and is the second as great as everyone says it is?

i had a dream last night that i went on a road trip and saw inc on the way to some unspecified destination. he lived in a city called incandenza, near virginia beach, and i thought, "oh, so that's where he got his name."

i wonder if 'to kill a mockingbird' would still hold up if i tried to read it again. god i loved that book.

some restaurants are better than others, depending on the location and the clientele they attract. i can imagine the cheesecake factory being a pretty sweet deal.

target has great popcorn.

looking on wikipedia, i'm woefully behind on my pulitzer prize-winning books, having only read 3 others. i better start catching up.

the guy studied english at columbia. that's not quite a creative writing MFA, but it's hardly the makings of an amateur. looking at his biographical stuff, i get the sense that he was just taken with his own genius and thought the book was perfect as it was.

john kennedy toole - 'a confederacy of dunces' very very good for what it is, but it could have been much better if it went somewhere. sort of suffers from the 'finnegans wake' thing, where reading the first 100 pages is exactly as effective as reading the other 300. there's a lot of greatness in there, but it felt like toole wasn't mature enough to handle his gifts yet. next up, joyce's 'a portrait of the artist as a young man', which i haven't read since i was seventeen.