Saturday, July 27, 2019
Like it didn't occur to me that I was in the world. I just thought I was a spectator.
— Lily on her childhood
Friday, July 26, 2019
Weird Al was really central to me.
— Lin-Manuel Miranda, "Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend"
Thursday, July 25, 2019
Earnest political gestures at art museums can look flimsy, like a game inside a game.
— Sebastian Smee, "Can artists right the ills of an unjust world by staging museum protests?," The Washigton Post, via @linnpress
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Why Advertise on Menus?
Because
Everybody Eats!
Because
Everybody Eats!
— Menu King Menu
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
And anyway, what's the difference?
— Lily on if rocks and water have been there since the beginning of time
Monday, July 22, 2019
"Why not?" It happens because people usually mark religious events that are important to them by getting together with relatives, and it is very difficult in this world to get a whole bunch of relatives together, whether you are living in some village in Laos or in Manhattan, without giving them something to eat.
— Anne Fadiman on a conversation with Eric Crystal, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Sunday, July 21, 2019
The air in the beach balls is from 1905.
— Museum explainer on the wing float beach balls in the Spruce Goose at Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum
Saturday, July 20, 2019
You know what it reminded me of? When you pick up a rock and there's a bunch of bugs under there and the're a little caught off guard.
— Lily on a stroller with 3 mini greyhounds inside
Friday, July 19, 2019
Other customers have also asked "Where is horse?" Would you like to hear that too?... [Yes]... Horses are located in the world and it lives in small forests and grassland.
— Alexa after I asked "where is the dog?"
Thursday, July 18, 2019
I’m a sentimental, cliché
Hallmark guy
Hallmark guy
— Sid, "What It’s All About"
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Charmaine, get to the safe room. We’re being robbed by supermodels.
— Doug, Booksmart
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
You know what struck me? You used to always know how to swim.
— Sid on Lily
Monday, July 15, 2019
The House quietly voted last week to require the Pentagon inspector general to tell Congress whether the department experimented with weaponizing disease-carrying insects and whether they were released into the public realm — either accidentally or on purpose.
— John M. Donnelly, "House orders Pentagon to say if it weaponized ticks and released them," Roll Call
Sunday, July 14, 2019
Ben-Gurion constantly thought on two planes, the immediate and the historical. He would not have expressed himself in such a way that history would judge him as guilty of reprehensible acts.
— Shimon Peres, Ben-Gurion
Saturday, July 13, 2019
Nasmyth likely adopted the method from his father, a well-known Scottish landscape painter who used plaster models as studies for his paintings.
— Object label in the Met's Apollo's Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography
Friday, July 12, 2019
An idealist.
— Nick
Thursday, July 11, 2019
A family photograph left on the surface of the moon by one of the Apollo 16 astronauts in April 1972.
— Image Caption, "Should Neil Armstrong’s Bootprints Be on the Moon Forever?," The New York Times
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
I think one of the things that has been shocking to me is how normal it is.
— AOC in a New Yorker interview on "how enormous decisions are made in ways that feel like a typical office."
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
May not have come into herself yet.
— Sid
Monday, July 8, 2019
If we just restricted the rest of our days to the proovable stuff that we know is out there, it could be amazing.
— Eric Weinstein, "Joe Rogan Experience #1320 - Eric Weinstein"