The thing on the hood looks like a deer whistle. http://www.farmandfleet.com/catalog/image.aspx?i=623481

Loved the Dick Van Dyke Show title sequence reference.

Since Truman Capote pretty much revised his diary (or the news) for his literary efforts, it's safe to assume Holly Golightly was based on a hustler in Manhattan who changed his name from Horace to Morris when he got off the bus.

In Ironweed the ghosts were drunk if they died drunk.

"What, you have some?" is a good game, too.

The go go world Aaron traveled through was likely filled with people who were more sure of themselves than could possibly be advised. Self-confidence is typically built on blind faith. Alpha males, "machers," have been known to touch the third rail of self-awareness and crash in balls of fire.

You need more doors between kitty and the outside. The outside is a rotten place for a kitty.

You got to work with what you got.

And he pretty much rescued the entire Oakland Zoo from the ugliest thing that happens to a zoo with a revenue problem. It's a joy to go there now, and if the theater there is named for a female relative of his, I can deal.

Using your process in no way ensures a superior result.

Who would go to the trouble of making themselves a shirt but not have time to carve the buttons out of whale bone?

Passengers on my June flight from SFO to JFK were treated to a showing of John Carter. I looked up and down the plane and could not find anyone who was both looking at the screen and listening to the soundtrack in headphones. Some had brought something specifically interesting to them and were looking at that. …

QT challenged himself with something more restrained and empathetic when he made Jackie Brown. The public did not particularly reward him. That's the one *I* like to watch repeatedly.

Harrison Bergeron was a migraine sufferer.

"I'm a 7. He's a 4. How could he cheat on me?" You could have at least treated him like a six. Might have slowed it down.

That rope is a formal request, not an actual barrier. It's nice to see it honored; one can cultivate a little faith in people.

Winning is a state of mind, and players seem to have trouble letting it go when the game is over.

It's called first person shooter. If you swell their ranks a few will emerge to try to bring their winning game to the game they are losing.

Here is Lena Dunham's $3.7 Million Book Proposal

Good white chocolate (Perugina, Droste) is everything milk chocolate is without the cocoa. The Cocoa butter taste in a good one is dominant, and will satisfy most of any chocolate craving. Crummy white chocolate tastes like nonfat dry milk and palm kernel oil, and is not fit for adult consumption. (Spikes the mic.)