Thursday, August 17, 2017
When people asked Breitbart why he wasn’t more involved in electoral politics, he liked to say that if you could reorient news and entertainment, the rest would follow. ‘‘Politics,’’ he often said, ‘‘is downstream from culture.’’
— Wil S. Hylton, “Down the Breitbart Hole,” The New York Times Magazine
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
They turn their backs on the universe and its ecstasies in order to spin out, endlessly, those ten pointless projectile heads, which are cut away time and again by the sudden snips of a Solingen.
— Jorge Luis Borges, “Toenails”
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
I’m pretending the met is a cruise ship.
— Lily in a text
Monday, August 14, 2017
Still remains.
— Simon & Garfunkel, “The Sound of Silence”
Sunday, August 13, 2017
Maybe I should just go to the airport.
— Lily on something to do
Saturday, August 12, 2017
Dinner party.
— Caresse
Friday, August 11, 2017
It's Sirius Black!
— Lily (out of nowhere) pointing to a black dog on street
Thursday, August 10, 2017
I don’t believe in germs… I definitely don’t believe that your heart is in there beating all the time… going boom boom boom boom boom without you thinking about it. I think it’s all made up.
— Sid
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Anytime for you.
— credit score at the breakfast sandwich cart
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Do you want a fidget spinner?
— Courtney Maum
Monday, August 7, 2017
You have a wife like I did.
— Sid
Sunday, August 6, 2017
There’s a cookie.
— Lily on a cookie at the bottom of a clear bag of pastries at the bottom of a large pile of discarded food from Eli’s on the sidewalk
Saturday, August 5, 2017
Alexa, how much money is there in the world?
— Lily to Alexa
Friday, August 4, 2017
‘‘I would be sitting in here at night sometimes when the Voyager mission was flying,’’ Esker Davis, project manager for the Saturn encounter, told David W. Swift, who published an oral history of the mission in 1997, after Davis’s death. ‘‘And my wife would call up and ask what I was doing. I said, ‘Just watching pictures come in, being the first person to see this picture.’’’
— Kim Tingley, “The Loyal Engineers Steering NASA’s Voyager Probes Across the Universe,” The New York Times Magazine
Thursday, August 3, 2017
That’s not what I was expecting either.
— Akshay
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Ben Diesel.
— Henry
Tuesday, August 1, 2017
I’m a lover boy, and she’s calling me cute!
— Sid recollecting being upset that his middle school crush called him cute to his mom
Monday, July 31, 2017
Who moved his body
like a cannon ball.
— Oscar Isaac, Marcus Mumford, “Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song)”
Sunday, July 30, 2017
You’re not going to see a single store where you can buy a coffee or read the newspaper. They don’t want that, the rich people.
— Bike tour guide
Saturday, July 29, 2017
Mango.
— Rule from game post dinner
