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12.19.2004


"what have you done to the talking socks!?"
(sven)


12.17.2004


"that's crazy! it takes more eggs to make key lime pie!"
(sven)


12.10.2004


"i am a 2-inch pistachio of shame."
(sven)


"it makes them look like sleek waffles."
gl.


11.19.2004


"if you scoop up everything sad, your hands
will discover the texture of hope."
(jane bailey, from philosophy)


In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
(Martin Luther King Jr.)


10.29.2004


"garlic butterfinger curry! my favorite!"
(sven)


10.25.2004


"the white tip of the candy corn is its achille's heel."
(sven)


10.22.2004


"vote vote vote, vote vote vote, unless you are a candied yam 'cause candied yams don't vote."
(charlotte from making fiends)


"But OS X falls to its knees, barfing, and crawls around..."
(mph)


10.21.2004


"you'd better get your $15 worth of bandwidth out of this."
(gl.)


10.18.2004


"i never wanted a cat whose nickname was 'little miss crappy paws'!'"
(gl.)


10.08.2004


"that's my thursday: drugged insensate to avoid outrages to my pride at the hands of board certified sadists."
(mph)


10.06.2004


"i never realized rain sounded like popcorn."
(gl.)


10.03.2004


"what's it all mean, elwood?!"
(from dreams in the witch house)


10.01.2004


"so john edwards is the buffy of this equation?"
(gl.)


9.24.2004


"i got arrested by the epa!"
(sven)


8.10.2004


larkin: "i'd eat your head!"
gl.: "but it's not vegan!"


7.31.2004


"bacon boppers."
(sven)


7.26.2004


"this little piggie cried "ennui ...nui ...nui!" -- all the way home."
(sven)


7.19.2004


"i'm an octopus jellybean!"
(sven)


7.18.2004


"you're like the pope of kindness."
(gl.)


7.16.2004


"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
Theodore Roosevelt, 1918


7.11.2004


"die fast and quiet when they interrogate you or live so long that they are ashamed to hurt you anymore."
(jenny holzer from the seattle art museum trip in february)


7.07.2004


"you want me to hold the incontinent flowers?"
(sven)


"i'd go to an anya concert!"
(sven)


7.01.2004


upon seeing a shirt: "that's princess leia cute!"
(sven)


6.26.2004


"dear god and little catfish."
(from a series of horrifyingly sexist essays)


6.18.2004


"i didn't expect a fistful of raspberries!"
(gl.)


6.14.2004


"don't you love the illusion of control in this story?"
(sven)


6.11.2004


"is it the accordian's fault if it sings?"
(sven)


"so this is what evil gretchin would sound like if she were a dog!"
(leopoldo)


"why is everyone dressed all cute?"
(overheard after attending "the cockettes" at cinema 21)


6.04.2004


"i made a wish for a sky full of fish."
(tanya donnely)


6.03.2004


"i love the way they look at each other."
(overheard at rob&kyrie's wedding)


6.01.2004


"I am impossible, I know it,
I want you to love freely, I want
you to love richly and many
but I want your mouth to taste of me
and I want to walk in your dreams naked. "
(marge piercy, from "under red aries")


5.30.2004


"did that seem like an ironic wedding to you"?
(sven)


5.23.2004


"what kind of person tickles a dead bug?"
(sven)


5.19.2004


"zombies don't choke."
(zoe)


5.09.2004


"gretchin lair likes holding rocks warmed by the microwave in her hand."
(gl.)


5.07.2004


"i may be on sven time, but i still care."
(sven)


5.02.2004


"i've never seen anyone cry tidepools before!"
(sven)


4.26.2004


"distraction is discovery."
(gl.)


4.21.2004


"but as we all know, give a mouse a cookie and he'll want a glass of milk."
(anne binder)


4.03.2004


"if there's any sort of doppler effect, you're a bad ice cream truck!"
(sven)


3.24.2004


"angry words are all alike. they all mean, 'what about me?' "
(richard ford)


3.23.2004


"Why rejoice when state and church extend their grip, which is what marriage is all about? Assimilation is not liberation, and the invocation of "equality" as the great attainment of these gay marriages should be challenged."
(alexander cockburn)


3.17.2004


"it's sort of like lot's wife, but with [mountain] dew."
(sven)


3.15.2004


"i hear my ellipses calling."
(sven)


3.02.2004


"washington, meet the best girl ever!"
(sven)


2.23.2004


"no, you may not shoot in my corporate foxhole of fluorescent death!"
(sven)


2.16.2004


"you only have about six noises for predictable behaviours."
(steve)


2.12.2004


Ten thousand flowers in spring,
the moon in autumn,
a cool breeze in summer,
snow in winter.
If your mind isn't clouded
by unnecessary things,
this is the best season of your life.
(wu-men)


2.03.2004


"this won't make you happy, but my house smells like bacon!"
(gl.)


1.24.2004


referring to henry rollins: "he's old-school jello style."
(gl.)


"curse you, monkey's paw!"
(sven)


1.20.2004


"it's the butterflies!"
(sven)


1.11.2004


"i can't type shakespeare when i'm laughing so hard!"
(gl.)


1.10.2004


gl.: "dehydration doesn't do us any favours."
sven: "it lends me money."


1.07.2004


"the object of new year is not that we should have a new year. it is that we should have a new soul and a new nose, new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterward."
(gk chesterton)


1.06.2004


"polymerr!"
(sven)

"i am a mantra."
(gl.)

"as long as i get my oatmeal."
(michaelmas)


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