January 2011
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“On Lexington, they got hotels with wallpaper and room service and real gold paint on the rim of the plates. They got rooms where they put chocolates on the pillows. They got businessmen come in for a day. Whiteys. In tighteys. They lift up their shirts, you can smell the husband panic off them, like their wife is gonna come out of the TV set.”
Tillie, from “Let the Great World...
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Village Voice: The 20 Best Nicknames in the Big... →
[updated from previous post]
Though Luigi “Baby Shacks” Manocchio, reputed boss of the Patriarca crime family, may have the best nickname, John “Sonny” Franzese is best known for his near flawless corpse disposal (ha) system. Sonny, now 93 and sentenced to 8 years for extortion, favored the brutal but thorough method of chopping up bodies in a kiddie pool, drying said...
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“We’re all taught to be incredibly self-protective and incredibly defensive and...”
– Paris Review – Heather Havrilesky on ‘Disaster Preparedness’ (via peterwknox)
Wonderful.
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“Got the oven here, baby
425° is how high the heat is
Bake up the pies in here,...”
– All of the Pies (via noonemanshouldhaveallthatflour)
Now this is clever.
“It took the shock of an assassination attempt to show us the ugliness to which...”
– George Packer (via thedeadline)
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“‘It’s all circling around the same problem of personal liberties,’ Walter said. ‘People came to this country for either money or freedom. If you don’t have money, you cling in your freedoms all the more angrily. Even if smoking kills you, even if you can’t afford to feed your kids, even if your kids are getting shot down by maniacs with assault rifles. ...
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