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Monthly Archives: April 2011

Roget

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
–Philo

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
–Plato

Be kind, for everyone you meet is haaang on a minute.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’m pretty sure I said that.
–Mark Twain

You don’t get to say fucking everything, Clemens.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yeah, the reports of you saying stuff are greatly exaggerated.
–Yogi Berra

Get it?
–Yogi Berra

That’s not even the real quote.
–Mark Twain

You guys are a fistful of assholes.
–Ian Maclaren

Actually some people you meet have it pretty easy.
–Thomas Jefferson

Epidiah

“This list is ridiculous,” says Epidiah. “Holy water is for vampires, we’re not setting money on fire, and ‘proton packs’ are not real.”

“Still locked at the corner,” says Lemmy, peering out the mail slot. “Look, it wears the chain it forged in life!”

“It’s a ghost bike, Lemmy,” says Epidiah with weariness beyond death. “Somebody spray-painted it white because a friend of theirs–”

“Reached out from beyond the grave, I know,” Lemmy frowns. “Like vodoun or pharaonic burial goods. Did you bless the holy water yet?”

Epidiah’s sainthood derives from the Universal Life Church, but unfortunately that’s good enough.

Tanner

Squirting water into your inner ear to see if it makes you vomit is a good test for whether you’re really in a coma, Tanner learns, to his bewilderment, still hiccuping with his arms resting on the bucket lip.

“But I fail to understand,” he gets out between spasms, “why such a test was even necessary.”

Some people prefer their friends to be safe, not sorry,” says Kira. “And there was the power-of-attorney issue.”

“The,” Tanner says, “what.”

“So I could legally divest of your house and stuff. Tax reasons!”

He stares up at her.

“April Fools?” she says.