Category Archives: Conversation

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By Jessie | Published: July 30, 2009 Leave a comment
Keeping race-based police misconduct in check isn’t nearly as important as an investigation into whether President Obama is really a space alien Muslim from Mars with a fake birth certificate intent on forcing Islamic Stalinism on rural school districts in bumblefuck America !
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overheard at Strand

By Jessie | Published: November 24, 2008 Leave a comment
customer: Excuse me. Can you please tell me where the self-help section is? employee: (chuckles) Doesn’t that defeat the whole purpose if I tell you?
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Dad

By Jessie | Published: November 17, 2008 Leave a comment
Me: Remember that time mom asked you to make a salad and you used white grapes with like onion and cucumber and caesar dressing? Dad: Umm … nope. Me: Right. Dad: You know, I’ve gotten so much flack for that over the years. I’m going to write a cookbook someday titled, “Cooking With Grapes.” Me: It will be a [...]
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By Jessie | Published: November 9, 2008 Leave a comment
Dad: You know, the only magazine that I subscribe to that actually arrives on time is Beer Advocate. Me: What do you mean? Dad: It comes in the month that it’s issued. I get the December issue in December. With Smart Money, I get the December issue in November, which means it was probably written in October, [...]
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By Jessie | Published: November 9, 2008 Leave a comment
Me: I think you’d make a great chef. Dad: No way. I’m scared of cooking things. I’m not good at putting everything together like that. Me: ? Me: You’re an engineer. You design and build things for a living. Dad: I know, I just feel really intimidated by recipes for some reason. Me: It’s like the easiest math equation ever. [...]
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By Jessie | Published: November 6, 2008 Leave a comment
BLVR: Rumor has it that you turned down the chance to direct Disney’s remake of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner because you felt they weren’t interested in really exploring racism. HR: The way they wanted to do it didn’t have a lot to do with the colossal amount of pain and violence that swirls around racial [...]
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By Jessie | Published: October 31, 2008 Leave a comment
FIRST WITCH: When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain? SECOND WITCH: When the hurlyburly’s done, When the battle’s lost and won. THIRD WITCH: That will be ere the set of sun. – Macbeth Act I, Scene I
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