You must not shred that pretty poster
And jam the pieces in the toaster.

a film in which the camera operator falls asleep

Summer is often called journalism’s “silly season,” because there are more stories about animals or forteana, rather than serious subjects like politics.

a musical pangram: a piece that uses every note of the keyboard once

a slot machine for wooden nickels

If you’re the bird that wakes up early,
Then you get all the hurly-burly.

It’s better to fall into a cesspool, than to have a cesspool fall into you.

One sentence sums up my sister’s personality. It was after the shooting of Amadou Diallo. I expressed my dismay that two plainclothes policeman had pumped 41 bullets into an innocent unarmed man in front of his building. She answered, with infinite scorn and condescension, “Well, they should shoot him if he’s out after the curfew.”

By the way, what about the carbon footprint of a server farm?

a choral quarrel

The morning and the afternoon
Deprive us of the stars and moon.

(Posted by Doug Skinner)