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I tend to consider myself an amateur Real World scholar. I say “amateur” because I’ve done no actual university study on this subject, but I still say “scholar” because I’ve stopped watching the show as entertainment. At this point, I only watch it in hopes of unlocking the questions that have haunted man since the dawn of civilization. I’ve seen e
... See moreChuck Klosterman • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Trout doesn’t really exist. He has been my alter ego in several of my other novels. But most of what I have chosen to preserve from Timequake One has to do with his adventures and opinions. I have salvaged a few of the thousands of stories he wrote between 1931, when he was fourteen, and 2001, when he died at the age of eighty-four.
Kurt Vonnegut • Timequake
Those paper toques are coffee filters or clown hats,
Anthony Bourdain • Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Mr. S put Karloff up there with the Barrymores. The only stars in Hollywood he may have admired as much were Bogart and Fred Astaire. He had met the horror icon on a studio lot in the late forties and had been bowled over by what an English gentleman he was. Karloff’s real name was William Henry Pratt and his two great passions in life were cricket
... See moreGeorge Jacobs • Mr. S: My Life with Frank Sinatra
His job consisted of watching monitors all day and expecting people to be dishonest assholes.
Chuck Palahniuk • Make Something Up
As I approached my fiftieth birthday, I had become more and more enraged and mystified by the idiot decisions made by my countrymen. And then I had come suddenly to pity them, for I understood how innocent and natural it was for them to behave so abominably, and with such abominable results: They were doing their best to live like people invented i
... See moreKurt Vonnegut • Breakfast of Champions
Max almost laughed. It was known in media circles as the ‘Lorraine Kelly defence’. The Scottish TV presenter had successfully avoided paying HMRC back-taxes by claiming that ‘Lorraine Kelly’ was an on-screen persona and therefore not related directly to herself as a private individual.
Matthew Richardson • The Scarlet Papers: The Times Thriller of the Year 2023
But Who Is the Dreamer? Twin Peaks: The Return - Politics/Letters Quarterly
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