(Weird) Quote of the Day
Skydivers: If you are at all like me, and if you are at all like me then you regard thirty-minute home pizza delivery as one of the fundamental characteristics distinguishing truly civilized societies from those inchoate masses of culturally benighted heathen hearts who put their trust in reeking tube and iron shard and English muffins with mozzarella and tomato sauce on them, then it necessarily follows that you must also regard the now almost constant loss of various and sundry body parts by skydivers as they plunge towards the Earth as an especially irksome phenomenon and one with disturbing implications for the long term electoral viability of the Republican Party. – Akaky Bashmachkin, Skydivers – at The Passing Parade, in a rather odd but fascinating (in a fatal traffic accident rubbernecking kind of way) rant on . . . I’m not quite sure what.