"Life's funny. To a kid, time always drags. Suddenly you're fifty. All that's left of your childhood fits in a rusty little box."
The Diogenes Club
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Favorite Movie Quotes: Amélie
"Life's funny. To a kid, time always drags. Suddenly you're fifty. All that's left of your childhood fits in a rusty little box."
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Favorite Movie Quotes: All About Eve
"The theatuh, the theatuh-- what book of rules says the theater exists only within some ugly buildings crowded into one square mile of New York City? Or London, Paris, or Vienna? Listen, junior. And learn. Want to know what the theater is? A flea circus. Also opera. Also rodeos, carnivals, ballets, Indian tribal dances, Punch and Judy, a one-man band-- all theater. Wherever there's magic and make-believe and an audience-- there's theater. Donald Duck, Ibsen, and the Lone Ranger. Sarah Bernhardt and Poodles Hanneford, Lunt and Fontanne, Betty Grable, Rex the Wild Horse, Eleanora Duse-- they're all theater. You don't understand them, you don't like them all-- why should you? The theater's for everybody, you included, but not exclusively-- so don't approve or disapprove. It may not be your theater, but it's theater for somebody, somewhere ... It's just that there's so much bourgeois in this ivory green room they call the theater. Sometimes it gets up around my chin."
Favorite Movie Quotes: The Amazing Adventure
A psychiatrist's advice to a spoiled rich guy mired in listlessness:
"Disappear for a time. Earn your own living. Live on a few pounds a week if you can make them. If not, go hungry. Do that for a year and I'll guarantee it'll make you fit."
[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 44]
Morty Comix # 2294
Morty Comix # 2294 was tucked behind a posted notice at Friend's Landing on the Chehalis River, Grays Harbor County, Washington.
Favorite Movie Quotes: Aliens Among Us
A drunken judge in a remote Arizona town describes his companions in the local tavern:
"Chaff. When you harvest wheat you've got the useful stuff. That's wheat. But then you've got then useless stuff and that's chaff. This whole room is full of chaff."
[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 41]
Morty Comix # 2293
Morty Comix # 2293 was deposited in a shelf of community reading material in a restaurant in Cosmopolis, Washington
Favorite Movie Quotes: Александр Невский = Alexander Nevsky
"If you rich folks don't follow him willingly, then the peasants will break every bone in your bodies!"
Friday, February 3, 2012
Morty Comix # 2292
Morty Comix #2292 was left early in the morning at a bus stop in Tumwater, Washington
Favorite Movie Quotes: The Alamo
"It was like I was empty. Well, I'm not empty anymore. That's what's important, to feel useful in this old world, to hit a lick against what's wrong for what's right even though you get walloped for saying that word. Now I may sound like a Bible beater yelling up a revival at a river crossing camp meeting, but that don't change the truth none. There's right and there's wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat."
Morty Comix # 2291
Morty Comix # 2291 was left in the section of the Olympia, Washington grocery store where I normally buy cat litter.
In my experience living with four cats who are basically housebound half the year up here in the Northwest Corner of the lower 48, wood-based litter is what they prefer.
Trump Endorses Newt! Not.
An astute co-worker of mine brought this article to my attention as another entry in the catalog of inaccurate headlines. "Gingrich to get nod from Trump" ran in yesterday's Seattle Times, p. A3.
As we all know, Trump a short time later actually endorsed fellow gazillionaire Willard Mitt Romney instead of Newt. So what happened?
The intrigue of this all is, I'm sure, much more complex than us peasants will ever know. But I am entertained by the fact the Gingrich campaign assumed they had the backing of the Bad Hair Birther Crazyman.
Running for public office does indeed require self-confidence. Don't get me wrong, I really admire politicians who can direct that energy toward the public good.
But Newt's Ego is so big and real it could be his running mate when he splits and runs third party after Willard spanks him hard in the Republican primaries. Newt and his Ego in 2012! I can see the buttons and bumper stickers now.
Meanwhile, I would think an endorsement from Trump is not exactly something an intelligent person would want to embrace.
What a great show! And right now it is happening in Nevada! I wonder who the Rat Pack would endorse?
Favorite Movie Quotes: Airplane!
"There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?"
Morty Comix # 2290
Morty Comix # 2290 was left in the commons of a vocational education facility,
Tumwater, Washington
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Favorite Movie Quotes: Air Force One
"Peace isn't merely the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice."
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