February 2009
“You know who likes snowboarding?”
“Who?”
“David...”
– My niece Melina picked up on the sheer concentrated awesome that is DHenrie with very little prompting.
January 2009
“Did you know that there are 80,204 bricks in Harvard Yard? I heard that on ‘The...”
– Xtopher, the gay nephew.
White House unbuttons formal dress code
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
WASHINGTON - The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat.
“He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies...
“No, Mr T is on violin, Chuck is officiating.”
“I pity the fool on...”
– Casey & Devan, two of my fellow ushers @ work.
“It’s crap. It’s like a birdhouse… and then a garage…...”
– Mark Leccese, veteran newspaper reporter, newspaper editor, magazine writer… and my Feature Writing professor
“We are equal. If you cut, you see the blood, it’s red.”
– Nair Fontes of Brockton, MA @ a community vigil held to decry a racially-motivated rampage that left two people dead and a third critically wounded on Jan. 21
“im nothing that i ever expected to be and everything i should have been.”
– Christopher Gutierrez
“Tommy’s not a god. Tommy is a very complex, screwed up individual.”
– Tommy Lynn Sells (convicted serial killer who claims to have murdered up to 70 people)
Fla. teen sent 35,000 texts in a month - twice
The Associated Press
CLERMONT, Fla. - A Clermont man is lucky Sprint offers an unlimited text messaging plan.
Brad Cox’s 14-year-old daughter, Emilee, sent or received more than 35,000 messages a month twice in the past year. Cox called the Orlando Sentinel to report his daughter’s excessive texting after reading an article on the Web about a California girl who topped 14,000 in...
“popsicles are my life. suck it.”
– JStar
...Now he's just a moron.
me: wait, Bert McCracken used to be a MORMON?
zack: AHAHAH YEAH
me: seriously?
zack: yes
me: WHAT. HAPPENED?
“This is my problem, not yours. Don’t let me drag you down.”...”
– Alex & Justin Russo (WoWP)
“Since Nick [Jonas] got most of the masculinity, God decided to keep things fair...”
– miss_bennie@LJ
“it is entirely possible to consistently have the best year of your life.”
– Christopher Gutierrez
Band of Brothers/Disneyverse crossover - WHY SO...
The flight back to the States the next day is excruciating.
Not only does he have an awful hangover, but he hasn’t slept, and Joe Jonas is trying to lead the entire plane in a rousing rendition of “Wheels on the Bus,” which he then tries to unsuccessfully change to “Wings on the Plane.”
And he can’t even bring himself to shut him up because, well, he...
“President Obama
It’s an honor just to say it
I used to hide my passport...”
– Ani Difranco
“Here I go, here I go
Gonna work it out somehow
Walkin’ tall but I hope...”
– Tony Oller
“We are the same blood, all of us, we are, we are.”
– William Eugene Beckett, Jr.