Overheard in New York Revisited
One for the philosophers...
Boy #1: Damn it! I forgot my iPod.
Boy #2: Don't worry. The city is a soundtrack in itself.
Two for the cinephiles...
Tween boy #1: Do you want to rent Madagascar?
Tween boy #2: No, I've seen it.
Tween boy #1: So?
Tween boy #2: I don't like watching movies I've seen already.
Tween boy #1: How about Ice Age?
Tween boy #2: Seen it.
Tween boy #1, to video clerk: Do you have Bridge Over the River Kwai?
Hipster: Aren't you some kind of traitor? You're going to film grad school, and you saw Click on opening night?
For the vegetarians and cyclists...
A teen girl punches her father repeatedly in the arm.
Older sister: You know he can't feel that, right? He's wearing a leather jacket.
Teen girl: What?
Older sister: Yeah, that's why motorcyclists wear leather, so they don't get their skin scraped off when they go sliding across the pavement.
Teen girl: Oh! So if I punch a cow, it can't feel it?
For the patriotic...
Lady with five kids: You can't get anything here. We gots to get to Old Navy to buy us all our Fourth of July t-shirts so we match at the picnic.
Guy: They have the best deal. Shirts are five dollars each, that's like [counts kids, self, and wife] less than twenty bucks for all of us, and even the baby shit has a flag on it.
And lastly, for my mother
An ice cream truck is going up the street.
Little girl in wagon: Mommy, that truck song is annoying.
Hipster mom: Yes, the commodification of your desires is annoying, isn't it?
Good Night, and Good Luck
Boy #1: Damn it! I forgot my iPod.
Boy #2: Don't worry. The city is a soundtrack in itself.
Two for the cinephiles...
Tween boy #1: Do you want to rent Madagascar?
Tween boy #2: No, I've seen it.
Tween boy #1: So?
Tween boy #2: I don't like watching movies I've seen already.
Tween boy #1: How about Ice Age?
Tween boy #2: Seen it.
Tween boy #1, to video clerk: Do you have Bridge Over the River Kwai?
Hipster: Aren't you some kind of traitor? You're going to film grad school, and you saw Click on opening night?
For the vegetarians and cyclists...
A teen girl punches her father repeatedly in the arm.
Older sister: You know he can't feel that, right? He's wearing a leather jacket.
Teen girl: What?
Older sister: Yeah, that's why motorcyclists wear leather, so they don't get their skin scraped off when they go sliding across the pavement.
Teen girl: Oh! So if I punch a cow, it can't feel it?
For the patriotic...
Lady with five kids: You can't get anything here. We gots to get to Old Navy to buy us all our Fourth of July t-shirts so we match at the picnic.
Guy: They have the best deal. Shirts are five dollars each, that's like [counts kids, self, and wife] less than twenty bucks for all of us, and even the baby shit has a flag on it.
And lastly, for my mother
An ice cream truck is going up the street.
Little girl in wagon: Mommy, that truck song is annoying.
Hipster mom: Yes, the commodification of your desires is annoying, isn't it?
Good Night, and Good Luck
posted by jw at
7:13 PM
1 Comments:
I saw Click this weekend. It was really, really, really horrible. Unbelievably bad. Luckily, though, I was at a Drive-in, and no one goes to drive-ins for the films (nudge nudge, wink wink).
I've seen Ice Age, Madagascar, AND Bridge On The River Kwai. Lawrence of Arabia puts them all to shame.
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