The Scrine may be a large, awkward, rusted bird, but he is not so unlike a lonely sentence, staring up at the sky, dreaming of flight.
TAGS: birds, 1st sentence, dreams, scrine, flight, lonelinessDo we get to wear little flowerpot hats?
This conveyance is in trust for the benefit of the Beneficiary, and the Debtor acknowledges that the Public Trustee of the county in which the Property is located, as well as any duly appointed successor, shall have, with respect to the Property, all of the rights, powers and authority granted by applicable Colorado law and by the terms of this Deed of Trust, including the power of sale in the event of default.
TAGS: 1st sentence, work, legal, coloradoFor kicks let’s say that letters represent people and go from there, realizing then that words are families, books like neighborhoods or societies, libraries like nations, sentences like a string of universes, which leaves us with only that one ongoing, unanswerable, nagging question - what are the ducks?
TAGS: 1st sentence, ducks, libraries, family, universeI weep for all the sentences that have ever been deleted before their time…and then I think of all the sentences that never were, and I feel like a selfish bastard.
TAGS: 1st sentence, death, selfishnessMeasuring social capital through cost-benefit analysis may be difficult, but it is not impossible, and several excellent studies have identified useful proxies for social capital, using different types and combinations of qualitative, comparative and quantitative research methodologies.
TAGS: 1st sentence, work, friendship, research, methodologyI heard someone say that according to a recent survey, Realtors are a lower form of pond scum than lawyers. I’m not sure if I get much comfort from that.
TAGS: 1st sentence, lawyers, realtors, scum, pondsThe vast potential of coconut drinks comes not in the vessel, so much as the delivery system for the sweet blotting effect; they’re all about love.
TAGS: 1st sentence, love, alcohol, coconuts, potential“You want to make friends with your carotenoid pigments.”
TAGS: 1st sentence, friend, mentorBut the inconvenience of having a rare miniature condor nest in his hair didn’t annoy Harold half as much as the shocking number of hunters with no regard whatsoever for the bird’s status as an endangered species.
TAGS: birds, 1st sentence, animals, condors, species, endangered, huntingFun with Dating Former Soviets
Crazy Russian: Well you know, we’ve been involved for a while and when that happens obviously things need some management.
Bunni: Uh, it sounds like a 401 k plan. I mean do I need to call an accountant?
Crazy Russian: I just don’t think you are living up to your full potential.
Bunni: Because if I was I’d already have a 401 k plan.
I told Jim he could only get Carl Sagan videos at the bodega, because they cut PBS funding.
TAGS: 1st sentence, bodega, carl sagan, pbsI don’t know if you have ever walked into a firestation/bar/mexican restaurant in Texas in the worst winter weather for maybe five years, soaking wet and covered in mud, carrying a hard hat under your arm with a posse of similarly attired huge guys, but I recommend it.
The earth will not end in a nuclear exposion, it will just be sucked dry of all creativity and slowly return to amoebas and dust.
TAGS: 1st sentence, creativity, banality, endings, reality tvI think I’m done worshipping the pagan gods of Bad Karma.
Though the worship must have paid off.
Because I’ve had my fair share of ‘rewards’.
faced with the evidence that my computer was following me, and loudly grinding in it’s palpable pain; i decided to put it out of it’s misery, disassemble it and stick it in the closet with the other things that Don’t Work, and now that i have a library card and an unending supply of spot-on book recommendations (thanks ‘mouse) and the wonderfully calming affect of incremental suicide via smoking cigarettes- well, i’m OK.
There is no study I know of called caninpology, thus allowing dog to remain man’s best friend.
TAGS: 1st sentenceSuddenly she was worried that the eye tic was not just a sign of a strange neurological disorder, but proof that someone, late into the dark night, had stolen into her room and planted a bomb beneath her eyelid.
TAGS: 1st sentence, worry, eyes, bombWhen Clare woke to the 26th consecutive day of Seattle rain, she thought she’d go crazy; instead, she went to California.
TAGS: 1st sentenceCome about the razor shore to witness along the piers cheering people who do not see you on the mast in continual decay but themselves in continual ascension.
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