September 2009
28 posts
“Darling. I don’t know how to tell you this, but there’s a Chinese...”
– (500) Days of Summer
“I cannot imagine anything in my life that contains such sorrow as this, such...”
– Lorrie Moore, “Dance in America” (from Birds of America)
new blog! →
I grew up thinking that if you dug a hole through the Earth (for those in the US) you’d wind up in China. Turns out that’s not true; in fact note that the US and China are both entirely in the northern hemisphere which makes it impossible, so as a kid I guess I was pretty stupid.
You can prove it to yourself with this cool but otherwise worthless mapping tool.
But what if you did dig a hole...
“I should carry Jolly Ranchers around. Everyone would love me! I could be like...”
– Guy in the cafe
The Demise of Bill →
Douglas Kellogg’s allegory, often used to differentiate between geneticists and biochemists.
