The Mountain Goats’ “Ethiopians,” animated.
“When you sign a professional contract, apart from your obsession to get to the next level and ultimately the big leagues, you are also trying to be a winner. In fact, most players littered throughout the minor leagues have been champions at one point or another. They are coming from towns, cities, neighborhoods and countries where they dominated. They were the best, they have tasted sweet victory, and in a lot of cases they did it by just being better than everyone else.”
“These recent graduates have done everything society told them to do. They’ve worked hard, kept their noses clean and gotten a good education (in many cases from the nation’s best schools). They are ready and anxious to work. If we’re having trouble finding employment for even these kids, then we’re doing something profoundly wrong.”
“I’ve never seen an animal totally like a mummy - wrapped in duct tape. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen that. So, whoever did this took a lot of time. It was very methodical… [It is] a very sick individual that would do something like this to a cat.”
PSPCA worker on Sticky, a cat duct-taped by one James Davis.
“The question of personal responsibility, then, ends up being more complicated than it may seem. It’s hard to argue that Americans have collectively become more irresponsible over the last 30 years; the murder rate has plummeted, and divorce and abortion rates have fallen. And our genes certainly haven’t changed in 30 years.”
“Because of the illusion that illumination is based on speed, that it is more important to react than to think, that we live in a culture in which something is attached to every bit of time.”
“When I die, I want to be buried with her in my arms.”
