July 2010
“Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.”
—reading Gloria Steinem
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“The job has its perks—an accumulation of random knowledge, for instance—but it also has its side effects when you unintentionally drink the copy Kool-Aid. Once you train yourself to spot errors, you can’t not spot them. You can’t simply shut off the careful reading when you leave the office. You notice typos in novels, missing words in other magazines, incorrect punctuation on billboards. You have nightmares that your oversight turned Mayor Bloomberg into a “pubic” figure. You walk by a beauty salon the morning after you had sex for the first time with a guy you’ve been seeing and point out that there’s no such thing as “lazer” hair removal, realizing that this may not be the best way to get to have sex with him again.”
—What It’s Really Like to be a Copy Editor | The Awl
“During Negotiations, Chief Anthony Batts listed exactly 44 situations that his officers will no longer respond to and they include grand theft, burglary, car wrecks, identity theft and vandalism. He says if you live in Oakland and one of the above happens to you, you need to let police know on-line.”
—Taxes !! These are taxes you idiots !!
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“I wanna be that guy in Unfaithful. 1. He banged Diane Lane a lot. 2. Richard Gere killed him with a snowglobe. EPIC!”
—J, on life goals.
“The crowd definitely felt like Oscar Grant died.”
—KRON4 news anchor, during post-Mehserle trial “chaos” in downtown Oakland
“Mr. Nielsen kept the actors off-balance by interrupting their line readings with his favorite comic prop, a hand-held toy simulating flatulence.”
—I’m glad my dad had me watch stuff like this as a kid.
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