Category Archives: Humor
Yet More Bodily Functions
I’d say the disease has revealed its purpose, wouldn’t you? –Seth Brundle, The Fly (1986 remake) Where were we, again? Novgorod, I think. Our tour leader explained the ancient city’s significance to us as we circled its kremlin, explored its … Continue reading
More Bodily Functions
Phil: You wanna throw up here, or you wanna throw up in the car? Ralph: I think…both. –Groundhog Day Tom, Call me when you get in from Greece. We have a bad case of stomach flu in the house but we also … Continue reading
Bodily Functions
Would to Heaven that by rubbing my stomach in the same fashion, I could satisfy my hunger. –Diogenes Packing was difficult. I only had an eighty-minute layover and so did not feel comfortable checking a bag that I would need … Continue reading
Filed under Greece, Humor, Personal, Philosophy
Entr’acte
His ruling passion is the young beginner. –Don Giovanni What a delay! The whole of DIS has been awaiting the second half of my grand production. Ian Terkildsen, the Study Tour Coordinator, and Frazer Humes, his beautiful intern, are pacing … Continue reading
Intermission
Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain’t heard nothin’ yet! –Al Jolson, The Jazz Singer My watch said I had only four minutes to get to class. Shit. Lagkagehuset is nowhere near DIS. It was a new pastry that … Continue reading
Tim Toldrum’s Dead
What? Why didn’t you say so? Now I be King o’ the Cats! –Tom Tildrum, The King o’ the Cats, an English folk tale My father and I went to New Orleans last spring, and I remember how the lolling … Continue reading
Filed under Awkwardness, Humor, Philosophy, Pictures
Habitus: the Daily Rhythm
An old girlfriend told me she would rather be a fictional character than a real person. I got to wondering what the difference was. –David Foster Wallace, on writing his first novel, The Broom of the System It occurred to … Continue reading
Something is rotten…but you can’t smell it from here
You’re a doughnut! –Gordon Ramsay, Hell’s Kitchen I’m been in Copenhagen just long enough to get the lay of the land for its chief culinary export, the Danish. And I now know that this place is the poo, so take … Continue reading
Notes from Nørreport
Me: Oh my gosh, that was a bird! Driver: Nut inimohre. –an exchange on a Danish bus, right after a swallow slammed into the windshield The trains in Denmark always run on time—only one example of Danish punctuality. They are … Continue reading
Filed under Awkwardness, Dialogue, Humor
