“Didn’t anyone ever tell you not to use imperialist rhetoric when ordering your steak tartare? SIGNIFY SOME PLURALISM OR GET BACK IN THE VAN, LADY.”
-Kenny of the White Plains, NM

MR: “How do you feel about the four food groups?”
RB: “Couldn’t be bothered.”
ST: “Do you find women who discuss the dramatic splendor of being a woman, depressing?”
RB: “Yes.”
EG: “How about women who talk about their Lovers?”
RB: “Exponentially so.”
PK: “What of creatives who exhibit superficial activation positioned as the thin-skinned brand of Fragility/Complexity/Confliction?”
RB: “SKIN CRUMBLING.”
AH: “Tell [...]

Ballad Of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)

Limbs askew and sheets sprawling, I dreamt of Trousers! Be-pleated, oversized, of the sturdiest Twill, studded with wooly nubs and cinched with straps of tanned Hide! Sweating, eyes open, “In the desert of all places!” I thought. The tender touch of my beloved Celestine, Mistress of the enlightened Silhouette, Femme of [...]

RB: “Never. This table is very Haitian.”
AM: “They’re not rich, really. It’s the Italians that run this place. Serafina, TRITE. ”
RB: “(FORK TWIST) I wondered why we were eating all this Tiramisu for free.”
AM: “I’m Amanda. Why are you here? ”
RB: “Once a week, a meal on the house. All I [...]

-Buddy Shuman, early NASCAR champion

About 60 percent of NASCAR fans have some college education
About 74 percent own their own homes
About 40 percent earn household incomes above $50,000 a year
About 25 percent are minorities

-Quotation and statistics taken from Sunday Driving, article by Clay Risen (Vol, 17, Issue 1, BOOKFORUM)
Set Adrift On Memory Bliss

-Robert Silva
Quotation taken from Vol. 77 No. 5 Big Bend Sentinel with Robert Silva, Public Works Director of Marfa, Texas, and Overseer of Marfa Sewage Plant. (Article by Sterry Butcher)
Pas Gentile

“Misty Doe-eyes masking a decayed circulation and shell-shocking clockworks.  BYSTANDERS BEWARE.”
Flashbacks

(puis sauter dans la piscine!)
Ballet class usually begins at the barre, a long rail that dancers use to help balance while working on their technique. The first exercise may be either a warm up or pliés. The warm up is an exercise that warms up most of the body a little bit. It usually consists [...]

Let’s start from the beginning by answering a basic question: what is money? Steve Pavlina in his book Personal Development for Smart People has a good answer:
The money you earn is society’s way of saying: “In exchange for your valued contribution, you are hereby granted the right to extract equivalent value from society at a [...]