December 8th, 2008
Groonkly Bit: Who Considers the Bisexual Models?
Clayton Cubitt asks the question everyone else is afraid to.
Where’s my bailout money? I employ dozens of bisexual models. Will no one think of the bisexual models?
—Clayton Cubitt
December 1st, 2008
Groonkly Bit: On Dinosaurs and Lollipops…and Hookers
The return of weekly quotes from anyone who wears the mask of sagacity, makes me think, or downright laugh out loud.
From the comments section of Ectomo’s Noise du Jour: “Letter From God To Man†By Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip:
Wait, hookers have lollipops? This. Changes. Everything. —Jason – Gorilla Sushi
The hookers in question lay below the jump.
October 8th, 2008
Groonkly Bit: Contemplating Originality
A conversation I’ve had with MedicMike on more than one occasion, and yes sometimes those occasions did involve drinks of a sort, on originality becomes a bit clearer after reading what CS Lewis had to say on the subject.
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
—C. S. Lewis
Found on Nicholas Forese‘s site after viewing 15 Megabytes of Fame.
August 27th, 2008
Groonkly Bit
It’s been a while since there’s been a Bit worth posting. It was worth the wait. The following from Patton Oswalt’s speech to his old high school last June.
And then this banker – clean-shaven, grey suit and vest – you’d never look twice at him on the street – he told me about The Five Environments.
He leans forward, near the end of the dinner, and he says to me, “There are Five Environments you can live in on this planet. There’s The City. The Desert. The Mountains. The Plains. And The Beach.
You can live in combinations of them. Maybe a city in the desert, or in the mountains by the ocean. Or you could choose just one. Out in the plains somewhere, perhaps.
“But you need to get out there and travel, and figure out where you thrive.
“Some places you’ll go to and you’ll feel yourself wither. Your brain will fog up, your body won’t respond to your thoughts and desires, and you’ll feel sad and angry.
“You need to find out which of the Five Environments are yours. If you belong by the ocean, then the mountains will ruin you. If you’re suited for the blue solitude of the plains, then the city will be a tight, roaring prison cell that’ll eat you alive.
Read the whole of it on Oswalt’s site.
You won’t be sorry.
April 12th, 2008
Groonkly Bit
*Pokes head out of hidey hole*
I think good fiction writing is exploring questions more than giving answers.
—Ed Brubaker
His interrogation on WhiteChapel ends today, but you could learn much from what has been asked before.
February 24th, 2008
Groonkly Bit: Lyrical Win
It was 7:45, we were all in line 2 greet the teacher Miss Kathleen
First was Kevin, then came Lucy, third in line was me
All of us were ordinary compared 2 Cynthia Rose
She always stood at the back of the line, a smile beneath her nose
Her favorite number was 20 and every single day
If U asked her what she had 4 breakfast, this is what she’d sayStarfish and coffee, maple syrup and jam
Butterscotch clouds and a tangerine, a side order of ham
If U set your mind free, baby, maybe U’d understand
Starfish and coffee, maple syrup and jam
—Prince, Starfish & Coffee
February 21st, 2008
Groonkly Bit
While watching DINOSAURS RETURN TO LIFE on The Discovery Channel I heard the following:
“Late one night, Harris is studying feathers in a strain of mutant chickens“
–Narrator, Dinosaurs Come to Life
My love of that line is beyond all sense. The absurdity of it. The practicality of it. The mashup of the two is divine.
Let me say, Discovery Channel, you make it damn near impossible to find a damn thing on that digital confusion you call a website. You know who your audience is, why not try to live up to their standards a bit harder? I never found a main site for this wonderful show you aired. It’s as if you don’t want people to know it exists. You air love and deny any chance of finding it again.
I’m kinda pissed off at you for that. Yet I’ll continue to watch you cause I’m science’s bitch.
Your treatment of me, it is confusing.
February 12th, 2008
Groonkly Bit: Swans are mean SOBs. Did You Know That?
sometimes you just have to grab whatever is pissing you off by the throat and toss it, no matter how “beautiful”…
–7d
It’s slowly becoming 7d week. Nothing good can come of this.
(More on why you have to toss swans like the rabid beasts they are at cracked.com.)
January 27th, 2008
Groonkly Bit
Comics are playing with the perceptual special effects of consciousness.
—Max Douglas
Douglas says he got the idea from the book, The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness. From my perspective, I give Douglas the smartness credit.
