Ray Bradbury: "Fuck the Internets"

The Internet? Don't get him started. 'The Internet is a big distraction,' Mr. Bradbury barked... 'Yahoo called me eight weeks ago,' he said, voice rising. 'They wanted to put a book of mine on Yahoo! You know what I told them? "To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet." It's distracting. It's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.'"

Roger Ebert Quote

"A very well-made film, wall to-wall with F/X violence. Its major flaw is that it's disgusting."

Favorite Quotes I Found Today

"Sentences are alive. We experience them in time."

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Out of the 22 children on the flight, only three survived. Firefighter Francisco Alvarez was able to save one of the youngsters.

"I took one of the children into the lorry and he thought he was in a film. He asked: 'When will this film end?', and 'Where is my dad?' He asked if it was true, if he was in a film, but he wanted the film to end."

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I just heard the obese lesbian roommate say to somebody on the phone:
"I can make bacon anytime I want."

Her brother's buying my bed! Cool. I used the magic influence words from The Definitive Book of Body Language on him. They are:

discovery
guarantee
love
proven
results
save
easy
health
money
new
safety
you

I use these words in job interviews, negotiating, in ebay listings . . . anytime I can, and they tend to work. You will love the results you get and the easy discoveries you make as these money words guarantee you new safety, health, and love. The only other thing I would add is the person's name - definitely use their first name, and also their first and last name if you have the opportunity without sounding contrived. It makes the person think you know them well.

Banana-skin Pirouette and Collapse

"Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interests is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like giving the earth's atmosphere to a company as a monopoly. Something like this has already happened with outer space, for the same reason that we have leased our central nervous systems to various corporations. As long as we adopt the Narcissus attitude of regarding the extensions of our own bodies as really out there and really independent of us, we will meet all technological challenges with the same sort of banana-skin pirouette and collapse."

- Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media (1964)

I was thinking, you know what the best part of Batman (1989) is? . . . and then I looked on youtube and was pleased to see that someone else felt the same way.