Tag Archive for 'humor'

Nice, nize, nizzle.

Jason: I should start numbering the times that I say nice.
Jason: I wish there was an easy way to do it.
Angie: Why do you want to keep track?
Jason: Absurdity.
Angie: And what would you do with alternate spellings, like nize?
Jason: Yeah, that’s the difficulty.
Jason: I only do this to confound anyone that would try to go back and code my logs.
Jason: “Nice, okay. Wait… nize? Sigh, alright. WAITNIZZLE!? Fuck this. Fuck sociology. I give up. I quit.”
Angie: Haha.

Daily Journal Entry #11826 05/16/08 Fri

El Toro

I had linner with Bharath and Martin at El Toro. Bharath told me to check out All the Sad Young Literary Men, by the n+1 founding editor Gessen. Bharath said that n+1 is anti-Eggers.

The semicolon controversy came up again, and I jokingly said, “The summer after I graduated from high school was like a semicolon, connecting my future and the past like two independent yet related clauses.”

Minutiae

  • I submitted my IRB application.
  • In the evening I watched the incredible finale to The Office.

Links

  • ‘It was only when I started doing art about pain, and physicians saw the art, that they understood what I was going through,’ Mr. Collen said. ‘Words are limiting, but art elicits an emotional response.’