February 2010
2 posts
“while you wait on the answers / that I’ll pretend to find / keeping up...”
– Grizzly Bear - While You Wait for the Others
“So there are some things that sound easy, but you might as well send somebody a...”
– Nancy Pelosi, in reference to scaling back the health care bill
January 2010
3 posts
“But independent experts have analyzed the major health care proposals in...”
– “Factcheck: Searching for Some Light Amid the Heat” NY Times
“Dear God please let me get some more drugs by Friday.”
– Luke Cafferty, Friday Night Lights
“Lars is the guy she met at the gym with Brad Pitt’s face and Jesus’...”
– (500) Days of Summer
December 2009
1 post
“There’s so many people I’d like to work with still, but I’d like to maybe go...”
– Beyonce
November 2009
4 posts
“Ummm… Things I want? Robot dog. Night-vision goggles. Bug vacuum. GPS...”
– Phil Dunphy, Modern Family
“But, you know, we did not have a terrorist attack on our country during...”
– Dana Perino
“In this paradise, no one needs an alarm clock. Rather, each day at 5 a.m., in...”
– “A trip to North Korea offers curious sites,” Los Angeles Times
“I asked you to find an actor from middle America, a real person. You’re...”
– Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock.
October 2009
4 posts
“Yes, Okay, when I’m at. Hey, what are you up to with. Well, I can’t...”
– Google Voice transcribing my voicemail to Bracken.
“You had said that we did this for a show.”
– Balloon Boy
“Another way of putting it is when, you know, I’m busy and Nancy [Pelosi...”
– President Obama
“Certainly from our standpoint, this gives us a sense of momentum — when...”
– PJ Crowley, spokesman for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
“If you want something to grow, pee on it.”
– My attending.
September 2009
2 posts
“It’s not a place to go / It’s a place that comes to you / It’s...”
– YACHT, “The Afterlife”
August 2009
1 post
“Pleasantly demented.”
– An attending referring to my patient.
July 2009
1 post
“The worst is all the lovely weather / I’m sad, it’s not raining /...”
– LCD Soundsystem, “Someone Great”
June 2009
4 posts
“He will rape your children with his mouth!”
– David Letterman protestor
“…skinny comedy writers and producers milling around Camp Victory in...”
– “Stephen Colbert Takes His Show on the Roat to Baghdad” (NY Times)
“You might laugh because every time I sign my name, I put a gold star after it,...”
– Rachel Berry (Glee)
“Don’t worry, that’s on Audacity of Hope.”
– Obama aide (after a White House staffer tried to pay President Obama back for buying him a burger)
May 2009
15 posts
“But by the time Judge Sotomayor left the White House last Thursday after what...”
– New York Times article, “Sotomayor Pick a Product of Lessons From Past Battles”
“Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else’s path… unless...”
– Ellen Degeneres
“I’m proud of you. You’ve tried your best, and now it’s time to...”
– My Mom
“…[It is a] double layer perforated wool jersey gauze asymmetrical culotte...”
– Oak (via Racked)
“The Republican Party has turned a corner, and as we move forward Republicans...”
– Michael Steele (via TPM)
“I had just been on a trip to Minnesota where I can only kindly describe most of...”
– Anna Wintour
“In a cave, in ear park, in limbo, in my lady’s house, in step, in the...”
– My playlist (I’ve hit the letter ‘I’… 980 songs down, 1381 to go)
“‘You just push down on it,’ she explained. Then she gestured to the...”
– An opponent of the new cord system in the buses. (NY Times)
“Before I write you that type of prescription, I’d like to examine your...”
– An option (but thankfully not the answer) to the question: “The girl thanks the physician and says, ‘Just one more thing. Could you also give me a prescription for birth control pills? I’m going to camp with my bpyfriend and want to be prepared. And please, please don’t tell...
“Stars when you shine / You know what I mean / Scent of the pine / You know what...”
– My Brightest Diamond
“I think I’ll touch her arms. I’ll grab one and go, ‘Do you work out to my...”
– M.I.A., when asked what she would say if she met Michelle Obama.
“It’s very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present. You...”
– Little Edie (Grey Gardens)
“Now, I don’t wanna burst your bubble… ‘Cuz listen, I love that...”
– Sharon Jones (@ the Dark Was the Night concert)
“We don’t want every single college grad with mathematical aptitude to become a...”
– President Barack Obama
“Spent a week in a dusty library / Waiting for some words to jump at me”
– Camera Obscura
April 2009
8 posts
“That attitude signals the demise of the Republican Party as a viable national...”
– Lincoln Chafee
“Everybody knows, of course, that even when Al Franken finally makes it to...”
– Gail Collins
“‘Hello, friends,’ her enigmatic smile seemed to be saying. ‘I...”
– Whitney Pastorek, EW
“I’ve had it with these monkey fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday...”
– Snakes on a Plane (on FX)
“It’s my life after ‘The Hills,’ my journey. It’s going to be a...”
– Audrina Patridge
“According to recent medical journals, physicians have used it to treat chewing...”
– NY Times
“He just basically told me he didn’t like the Zionist control over our...”
– Friend of the Pittsburgh man who killed 3 police officers.
“A mutation in the gene can result in too little neurofibromin, or none at all,...”
– LA Times
March 2009
7 posts
“If I’m corrupt, it’s because I take care of my district.”
– Rep. John Murtha
“Indeed, to pretend that “resistance” is worthy of commendation at...”
– Bldg Blog
“It took us a couple of days because I like to know what I’m talking about...”
– President Obama
“Nicolas Cage shows restraint in ‘Knowing’: The actor plays an...”
– LA Times
“1st Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding...”
– Bush Administration Dept. of Justice Memo