My latest goal...

Is to bring swiven back in to common usage. I'll let you know how that goes. Now for the quotes!


Sometimes a little bit of repression is a good thing.

I always felt like Sinatra just kind of talked his way through most songs.

Also, just for Badger... and picture him sort of breathily saying this and waving his arms around while opening his eyes slightly wider...

"Zeugma.... paranoMAsia... "

Mardi Gras

This quote actually happened last Thursday, on the first day that I took notes with a dip pen. A pen dipped in ink. I will upload a photo when I get time. Anyway:

I was driving down Broadway during Mardi Gras, stopped at a light, and I hear, "Professor *****." And I see this hand waving from side to side, and I looked, and it was one of my students, passed out on the [neutral ground.]