September 2008
“Shares right now cost 16 times earnings and over long time periods return 7% a...”
– Jack Hough talks about the merits of renting over owning.
“It’s kind of like Kim Kardashian on Dancing With The Stars: all that ass...”
– Chris Rock on Sarah Palin (via)
“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.”
– David Carradine (via)
Seven Wonders of the World
This story (via) made me smile on a Friday morning:
A group of students was asked to list what they thought were the present “Seven Wonders of the World.” Though there were some disagreements, the following received the most votes:
Egypt’s Great Pyramids
Taj Mahal
Grand Canyon
Panama Canal
Empire State Building
St. Peter’s Basilica
China’s Great Wall
While gathering the...
WatchThere are many reasons I am in love with Sarah Silverman. This video demonstrates a few of them.
“I still want to challenge the way we experience music online, and I still want...”
– Justin, on the relaunch of Muxtape
“How does one keep looking that good when one is that busy?”
– Pakistan’s information minister Sherry Rehman, on Sarah Palin
“Why do I fall in love with every woman I see who shows me the least bit of...”
– Joel Barrish, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (via). Also, story of my life.
“For years now, they’ve told us that we can’t afford — that the government...”
– Sen. Bernie Sanders (via)
“I want to be done playing this lady Nov. 5, so if anybody can help me be done...”
– Tina Fey on playing Sarah Palin
marked
making love on the beams of the Eiffel Tower
sixty feet in the air on a warm September night
not only requires confidence fearlessness an affinity for heights a fine sense of balance insanity
but also is as we later learned highly illegal
not sure what gave us away
our awkward bodies glistening in the blue and white tower lights
or your skirt draped over the side flapping in the wind...
“I have always believed that sexual orientation is fluid. No one is strictly...”
– Dr. Logan Levkoff (via)
“When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you...”
– Edgar Watson Howe
“Men who fall in love easily should do the world the favor of not taking their...”
– Clive James, describing Camus and me at the same time.
A modest proposal.
I asked a stranger to marry me in Paris yesterday.
She said yes.
Okay, so she wasn’t a complete stranger. I had met her about three hours before through a friend, and we hit it off immediately. We ended up spending the entire evening talking to each other and getting to know each other.
Towards the end of the evening, her friends were getting ready to leave, and cracked a small joke,...
Change of Direction
I’m thinking of shutting this site down.
Seriously.
I love Tumblr and love tumblelogging, but I’ve realized that I’ve got better ways to spend my time. Plus, I’ve already got too many blogs to write for as it is.
I’ll still keep updating Squandrous for a little while longer, but don’t be surprised if I move on in the near future.
Where's Vasta?
Not quite as exciting as Where’s Waldo, I know, but a few people have been asking me why I haven’t been updating Squandrous as often over the past few weeks.
The simple reason: I’ve been posting in other places around the web. Here’s a quick look on where you may have missed me in the past two weeks if you only read my stuff over here on Squandrous:
On i tell stories:
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WatchThis video made me laugh, cry, smile, and feel all warm and fuzzy inside. And I fell in love with each and every person that shared their thoughts in front of the camera.
Best thing I’ve seen all week.
“Just as they once united to stamp out cigarette advertising, radio and TV...”
– Jeffrey Zeldman
“Most barriers to your success are man-made. And most often, you’re the man...”
– Frank Tyger (via)
Holy fuck. Why did nobody tell me that David...
“There’s a moment in life where you can’t recover any more from another break-up....”
– Julie Delpy, “Two Days in Paris” (via)
WatchPudge is a fantastic short film. Annie Bradley is also a fantastic person to talk to.
“No, because I’m from New Orleans, brother. Our main focus is to move ahead and...”
– Lil Wayne, when asked if he ever wanted to dedicate a whole track to Hurricane Katrina.