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
Friday, July 28, 2017
Wanna puff?
— Lily offering me her empty 16 Handles spoon
Thursday, July 27, 2017
If he gives Heather a raise today I’m going to say something to him.
— Red hair slicked back Eric Trump esque guy on phone entering west side of Central Park around 72nd St at 8:28am
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
10 to 15 minutes.
— Magnolia Bakery lady on how long it would take for chocolate banana pudding
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Jaywalkers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your lives.
— Last line of a poem Sid wrote in his mind
Monday, July 24, 2017
We’re old enough to babysit. It always blows my mind.
— Lily on being 24
Sunday, July 23, 2017
I’m very healthy. Like broccoli.
— Lily in high-pitched marionette voice waving an ice cream sandwich around like a mouth
Saturday, July 22, 2017
Have you ever made fruit kebabs?
— Lily
Friday, July 21, 2017
Until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.
— Winston Churchill speech read in Dunkirk
Thursday, July 20, 2017
You’ve got your printing shirt.
— Garry from Phoenix on my printing shirt
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
A tea shop.
— Nina Shield
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Beach ball.
— Jason Fulford
Monday, July 17, 2017
Grow a pair.
— To The Bone
Sunday, July 16, 2017
Sometimes we would barter. A trip to St. Barts was paid for with a year’s worth of Burmese hummus and shrimp gumbo.
— Tamara Shopsin, Arbitrary Stupid Goal