February 2012
1 post
““Tell me and I will forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I will...”
December 2011
1 post
“If I had a nickel for every time some particular thing happened, well, that...”
– Chris Moffett
November 2011
5 posts
“Don’t be such a baby.”
– (Mom to her baby)
“I once had a thought so big it maxed out my Twitter character limit.”
– Chris Moffett
“You know how you see someone you think you know, and despite it turning out not...”
– Chris Moffett
“If at first you don’t succeed, fall back on a trite saying.”
– Chris Moffett
Kind of like this...
Woman: Do you have a key to that room?
Me: I don't think so, just to this one.
Woman: What does it look like?
Me: (Holding up the key I have.) Kind of like this.
Woman: No, the room.
October 2011
5 posts
Smoke 'em if you got 'em
Hey man, have you got a cigarette on you?
I don't smoke.
Aw, c'mon man!
“Down with roots!”
– Chris Moffett
“God, the only thing that kept me alive was the hope that I would die.”
– A glimpse into the mindset of the Grandfather of the modern running shoe, Bill Bowerman.
“Constructive Agreement”
September 2011
2 posts
“On grids: it is not that the grid is true or false, but that the gridding of...”
– Chris Moffett
“The notion that we have two brains is SO left brain.”
– Chris Moffett
August 2011
12 posts
“I mean, have you ever SEEN a soundstage? They film all of that stuff on the...”
– Chris Moffett
“You know when grownups tell you “everything is going to be fine,”...”
– Dr. Who
“Almighty God! How much time I have wasted by my faith in AL-GEBRA! I include...”
– Kepler
“Go and fetch the sea…”
– Anselm Kiefer, Over Your City Grass Will Grow
“Every few years New York (and then the rest of the country) goes into a tortured...”
– Wendy Lesser
“Science experiments, one might say, are elaborate constraints for augmenting...”
– Chris Moffett
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A wise man, perched in the window, playing spoons.
July 2011
19 posts
“If God is dead everything is permitted; this is a frightening thought partly...”
– Adam Phillips, On Balance
Sounds of a metal grinder emanating from a tattoo parlor.
1 tag
“Our fantasies, in other words, may reveal that we are not excessively sexual,...”
– Adam Phillips, On Balance
WatchSubway Story
2 tags
Chess: an elaborate set of rules for teaching the hand how to MOVE.
A woman, settled in a phone booth with her bedazzled cellphone…
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Crutches and high-heels…
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WatchKoki Tanaka, “Everything is Everything”
How is “unjinx” not a word, Scrabble? Have you never lived?!
…
Oh. Sorry.
Have Tuba...
Watching a guy walk down the street with a tuba strapped to his back, I think to myself, “man, that guy’s prepared.”