January 2012
20 posts
Soup
Karen: You've been out here for so long, you must be freeeeezing. Here, I brought you some soup.
Will: Oh, hehe. Karen, this is gin.
Karen: There's noodles in it...
I’ve never been lonely. I’ve been in a room — I’ve felt suicidal. I’ve been...
– Charles Bukowski
Salad
Charlie: Are you eating salad?
Toby: Yeah...
Charlie: Why?
Toby: 'Cuz I am.
Charlie: I don't think I've ever seen you eat a salad. What kind is it?
Toby: Um, I dunno what type of a salad it is. I'm eating a salad. I'm doing it. Do I need to know the names? There's no difference between them, they're bowls of weeds. I could cover this thing in barbecue sauce and it'd still taste like the ground
Resignation to one’s fate takes practice. Like any art.
– Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Memories of the Future, trans. by Joanne Turnbull
December 2011
12 posts
clientsfromhell:
Me: I’m sorry, we’re fully booked.
Client: Then why did you answer the phone!?
Me: It was ringing.
Client: That’s a ridiculous set of standards.
November 2011
18 posts
The odd thing about this life is always that you spend half your time trying to...
– Tom Waits (via funeral)