Matt the Great

Top 14 Quotes I Used as Away Messages in 2005

(Make sure you follow the links on numbers 4 & 14!)

1.
JHS girl: I'll be damned if I let a seventh-grader ruin my reputation.
--8th Ave. playground
(from Overheard in NY 2/23)

2.
Some pull-quotes from the NYT's Where Are We Now article. Oh-- and congrats, Class of 2005:
"...but I'm staying calm and thinking happy thoughts, reassuring myself that the right opportunity will show itself eventually."
"I know many people who have fallen into a depressive malaise this year."
"But our jobs are providing us with skills, money and knowledge. [my guess is that Chrissie Akwari is not a Broadway usher]"

3.
Best Thing On Television This Week:
"Mack, you are the first female president. If Moses had been a woman leading the Jews in the desert, she would have stopped and asked for directions. They'd have been in Israel in a week."
(Commander in Chief)

4.
I declare March 9 Kevin Guilfoile Day. Here's why.

5.
"...today is Mozart's birthday, but you're getting the gift! We'll be playing The Marriage of Figaro in its entirety...and it's just a delicious night of radio..." NPR, 1:02 am

6.
i was mentioned (collectively) on gawker stalker! scroll down (don't get distracted the sexy badass catherine deneuve entry) to the andrew mccarthy bit!

7.
McSweeneys Recommends:Rachael Ray, from The Food Network
Oftentimes spunkiness is just straight irritating. But in this case it's endearing. And in this case we forgo skepticism of false TV-personality genuineness and believe that she'd be equally joyful playing Scrabble or a character in an Ionesco play. Verve is good, right? She's got verve. She's a clear star on the rise. She makes great salads.

8.
"...but since I've met you and moved to Sydney, I haven't listened to one ABBA song, and it's because my life's as good as an ABBA song. It's as good as 'Dancing Queen.'"

9.
how's this for freakin weird: yesterday, i was thinking about putting up "when you're tired you take a nap-a; you don't move to Napa" as my away message. and the Big-moves-to-Napa episode is on RIGHT NOW.

10.
" It's like when you walk into Diesel and there's pieces of t-shirts stapled onto other t-shirts and first you think, "Björk made this!" and then you think "Oh. I could make this." "
www.televisionwithoutpity.com

11.
"crushes come and go but jake ryan is forever"
--WE on sixteen candles

12.
selected entries from The Onion's "Irish Heritage Timeline":
7500 BC - The first humans arrive in Ireland. Prior to this, only the Irish lived there.
456 - The last giant Irish panda dies.
1807 - Famine strikes
1817 - Famine and typhus strike
1836 - Famine and cholera strike
1845 - Famine and meteor showers strike
1895 - The Irish Stone Age ends
1985 - The hilariously titled "Anglo-Irish Agreement" signed
2004 - U2 special edition iPod released

13.
"I heard Tom DeLay's blood was in the water and the sharks were circling him, but unfortunately, it turned out to be a metaphor."
--Colleen Bowers, Systems Analyst

14.
i have a new favorite person, and he is CHRIS GAVALER . with one click he will no doubt become yours as well.

posted by Matt the Great @ 2/12/2006