Quotes of the Day
Friday, August 22nd, 2008“The bomb will not start a chain-reaction in the water converting it all to gas and letting all the ships on all the oceans drop down to the bottom. It will not blow out the bottom of the sea and let all the water run down the hole. It will not destroy gravity. I am not an atomic playboy, as one of my critics labeled me, exploding these bombs to satisfy my personal whim.”– William H.P. Blandy, a U.S. Navy Admiral who oversaw the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Island.
“Woe to you my Princess. When I come, I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are froward, you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn’t eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.”
– Sigmund Freud
“Four trillion dollars for baked beans? I didn’t know they had Whole Foods in Zimbabwe!”
–Lewis Black






Chuck Klosterman is a very popular writer who, in this reader’s opinion, is not crappy (e.g. Dan Brown) or gimmicky (Chuck Palahniuk) or sickeningly obnoxious (Jonathan Safran Foer). That makes him unique in the world of contemporary letters.
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I cruised 41 up into the mysterious waters of Bradenton last Friday, hoping to check out — for the first time: sorry, B-towners! — the city’s