On Systems, Solar and Otherwise

That's really the only time I can run the patriarchy argument in my favor (as a white male)--against the sun.

On Opinions

Obviously it's not to your taste because I assume you have bad taste.

On History

What is with 1967? Why is everyone obsessed with that year?

On Perspective

Fashionable Interlocutor: Yes, Yes. But monsters kill things.

Mindful Participant: So do heroes.

On Wheel of Fortune

Never underestimate the number of old people that still exist.

On Status Quo

That's like saying George stop being loud or George stop having great hair... it's not going to happen.

On Friendship

That's giving me carte blanche to demean you.

On Canada

George: Is there a Tim Horton's in your town?
Palindromic Interlocutor: Yes.
George: Then you're from Canada.

Guest Observation: On Telling it like it Is.

George: Actually, I find an early Teddy Roosevelt sexy.
Palindromic Interlocutor: George would want Teddy because he wants a lover who speaks softly and carries a big stick.

On Sexy Time

1: Just because you bang things doesn't make it sexual.

2: There's a correlation, a correlation I would like to have sex with.

Guest(s) Observation: On Lewd Co-mments

Palindromic Interlocutor: How do I make it bigger?
Ammoral Interlocutor: Touch it.
--Awkward pause--
PI: Stop looking at me!
AI: Actually, that would do it too.

On Patriotism

Americans are on a never ending quest for more jobs and lower taxes. Eventually what we really want is communism!

Cajun Cooking

Fashionable Interlocutor: "I can get 150 lbs of live crawfish shipped to me for the low, low price of $643.50."

Delicious Platonist: "Gross and scary."

On George

Palindromic Interlocutor: I'll never be drunk enough to understand what you just said.

In Rhetoric Class

No. I'm just labeling it more derisively.

What is phronesis? It sounds like something House would diagnose.

Alec Baldwin's Resurrection

Delicious Platonist on Jack Donaghy: He's the Prince of Non-Committal Grunts.

Guest Observation: On Sexy Time

Guest Interlocutor: It's not like the clitoris has armor.

On Potent Potables

If I wanted to face reality I wouldn't be drunk.

Meditations on Ethos

Guest Interlocutor, after witnessing a friend's giddy reaction to some New York cowboys: "I need to get a horse. You don't need to know how to dance if you have a horse."

Country Music

George: "Willie Nelson scares me."

Fashionable Interlocutor: "Why?"

George: "Because he reminds me of that creepy uncle. You know the one I mean."

On Embodied Practice

Why is there an agon... Is it anything like Thunderdome?

On Logic

Maybe my words grounded it in truth.

On Drama

There aren't just problems in my life; there are varying degrees of crisis.

Baggage Claims

Because this blog is dedicated to painfully perceptive observations on the world around us, we feel free to include guest input from time to time. We are still, of course, with George.

Hannah: "I think luggage is inherently not-so-ninja."

Meditations on a Debate Tournament, Part Two

On the Differences between Worlds and US Policy Debate:
"It seems like we debate, but actually we live in some bizarre parallel universe."