Taglines

fun within prescribed limits

Richard — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:41:07 +0000

Hank Hill's exclamation after hearing from the train conductor the rules of the train on a disco murder mystery ride. "This is gonna work", he happily declared. Episode CABE10, titled ""Strangeness On a Train", which aired on April 27th, according to Wikipedia.

awkward flow, to some it's even unorthodox

Richard — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:55:41 +0000

A line from Jeru the Damaja's "Too Perverted". It was, and still is, the tagline for my Vox site, titled "The Jeru the Damaja of blogging" as an homage to Anil Dash, the Jay-Z of blogging.

make art not status

Richard — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:54:46 +0000

The McLuhanesque typo found in the Jaiku 'make art not stats' conversation.

hard to read like graffiti

Richard — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:12:51 +0000

From Common's "The Sun God", produced by Hi-Tek.

connections like OPEC

Richard — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:09:10 +0000

From INI's "Think Twice", as heard on the Aesthetic Poetic Radio podcast (song mis-credited as "Sucka Emcees").

blue collar turns to bourgeois

Richard — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:47:44 +0000

From Crooklyn Dodgers' "Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers", a rap song from Clockers. [full lyrics]

all motion but no engagement

Richard — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:53:17 +0000

A phrase from Slant by Greg Bear, p. 25. The full sentence is: For Martin Burke, life has become anaspace, all motion but no engagement, no interaction, no sense of progress.

a bottomless stomach of want

Richard — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 21:26:07 +0000

A phrase from an article on capuchin monkeys.

indeed all subsides

Richard — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:49:41 +0000

From Waiting for Godot.

nothing endures

Richard — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:03:20 +0000

A Buddhist sentiment I agree with. From a book on the subject.

a solutions playground

Richard — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:42:31 +0000

A phrase used by Jay Goldman to describe Toronto's first TransitCamp. Full quote: This is not a complaints line, it's a solutions playground.