April 2012
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so here's a thing:
The technical name for the noises made by a grumbling stomach is borborygmi (borborygmus is the singular form). The term comes from the Greek word borborugmos, an example of onomatopoeia.
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“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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LA DISPUTE ARE PLAYING WHERE I WORK IN SEPTEMBER
hands down, the greatest news I have ever received in my life, ever.
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last night
my till was down by £1 for some reason, which was so annoying because it wasn’t even a busy night BUT THEN clearing up the main room I found a pound coin to make up the difference. And then about two minutes later I found a £20 note. Sometimes things are just really great, y’know.
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“We were in a profound state of shock and disbelief, like everyone else we...”
– Colin Pantall’s blog: You don’t look like a victim (via photographsonthebrain)
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My heart - I thought it stopped. So I got in my car and headed for God. I passed two churches with cars parked in front. Then I stopped at the third because no one else had.
It was early afternoon, the middle of the week. I chose a pew in the center of the rows. Episcopal or Methodist, it didn’t make any difference. It was as quiet as a church.
I thought about the feeling of the long...
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“I learned it at just twenty-one or twenty-two… at an age when most guys...”
– David Foster Wallace (The Pale King)
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I really want to kill our piano playing neighbours right now. The repetitiveness of the scale-playing should at least reduce the charge to self-defence or diminished responsibility.
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“I guess a big part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like...”
– David Foster Wallace
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