Kurt Vonnegut, meet Brenda Walsh. slaughterhouse90210@gmail.com Check out my movie-themed column at Details.com. var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-8565085-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}Tumblr (3.0; @slaughterhouse90210)http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/<img src="http://15.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktq9gyxMJ01qzy4ewo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed.” <br/>— <a title="view all quotes by Sylvia Plath">Sylvia Plath, </a><a><i>The Bell Jar</i></a></p>http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/258458984http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/258458984Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:48:34 -0500<img src="http://3.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktq5j0ZAZu1qzy4ewo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“‘Where’s my Thanksgiving Turkey?’ Miss Trixie snarled.” <br/>— <a title="view all quotes by John Kennedy Toole">John Kennedy Toole, </a><a><i>A Confederacy of Dunces</i></a></p>http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/258376388http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/258376388Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:23:24 -0500<img src="http://15.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktofejW7iM1qzy4ewo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.” <br/> — P.G. Wodehouse, <i>Love Among the Chickens</i></p>http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/257141728http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/257141728Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:01:30 -0500<img src="http://1.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktoayuDrqI1qzy4ewo1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“‘Grown men,’ he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, ‘do not behave like this.’” <br/> — Douglas Adams, <i>So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish</i></p>http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/257053693http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/257053693Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:25:41 -0500<img src="http://6.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktmj75DZC61qzy4ewo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!” <br/> — F. Scott Fitzgerald, <i>The Great Gatsby</i></p>http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/255819065http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/255819065Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:28:17 -0500<img src="http://1.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktmci1TQkx1qzy4ewo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“Shoot, boy, the country’s just fulla folks what knows everything, and don’t understand nothing, just fullofem.” <br/> — Truman Capote, <i>Other Voices, Other Rooms</i></p>http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/255697048http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/255697048Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:03:36 -0500<img src="http://4.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktkk8nlghd1qzy4ewo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning /> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas /> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables /> <w:SnapToGridInCell /> <w:WrapTextWithPunct /> <w:UseAsianBreakRules /> <w:DontGrowAutofit /> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]> <span class="mceItemObject" classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id=ieooui> </span> <mce:style><! st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } --> <!--[endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <mce:style><! /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} --> <!--[endif]--> <p>“This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.” <br/> — Marilynne Robinson, <i>Gilead</i></p>http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/254437232http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/254437232Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:55:35 -0500<img src="http://6.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktkjakTrNF1qzy4ewo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.” <br/> — Iain M. Banks, <i>The Wasp Factory</i></p>http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/254421217http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/254421217Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:35:08 -0500<img src="http://7.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktf991az1d1qzy4ewo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.” <br/> — Eudora Welty, <i>On Writing</i></p>http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/251035187http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/251035187Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:10:13 -0500<img src="http://2.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktexk0exdX1qzy4ewo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of nature. If you don’t let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood!” <br/> — Yann Martel, <i>Life of Pi</i></p>http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/250848641http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/250848641Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:57:30 -0500<img src="http://14.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktdf7v1GZY1qzy4ewo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.” <br/> — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, <i>The Little Prince</i></p>http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/249891127http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/249891127Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:23:54 -0500<img src="http://18.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktd3wmRmOr1qzy4ewo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.” <br/> — Truman Capote, <i>Breakfast at Tiffany’s</i></p>http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/249706237http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/249706237Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:19:34 -0500<img src="http://20.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktbe5uOMmr1qzy4ewo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.” <br/> — Italo Calvino, <i>Invisible Cities</i></p>http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/248602304http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/248602304Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:05:47 -0500<img src="http://21.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktb7tffyKg1qzy4ewo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.” <br/> — George Eliot, <i>The Mill on the Floss</i></p>http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/248494878http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/248494878Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:48:50 -0500<img src="http://3.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kt9lkb3HrX1qzy4ewo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.” <br/> — Mark Haddon, <i>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time</i></p>http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/247413723http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/247413723Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:50:34 -0500<img src="http://12.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kt9e4wewk61qzy4ewo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.” <br/> — Ian Fleming, <i>Goldfinger</i></p>http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/247294895http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/247294895Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:10:07 -0500<img src="http://9.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kt7pvo1e5r1qzy4ewo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.” <br/> — Jane Austen, <i>Northanger Abbey</i></p>http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/246172947http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/246172947Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:28:35 -0500<img src="http://4.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kt7izl9QuR1qzy4ewo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“If there’s anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.” <br/> — Douglas Adams, <i>The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy</i></p>http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/246059209http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/246059209Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:59:45 -0500<img src="http://22.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kt2db4czQV1qzy4ewo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.” <br/> — Gustave Flaubert,<i> Madame Bovary</i></p>http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/242836410http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/242836410Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:09:04 -0500<img src="http://19.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kt1yitRkkR1qzy4ewo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?” <br/> — Ray Bradbury, <i>Fahrenheit 451</i></p>http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/242601601http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/242601601Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:49:40 -0500