Tango

It most certainly does take two to tango, and I for one am sick of dancing.

Change Blindness

Tell me a lie, anything you like.

I hate you.

-Lie To Me

Trivial Pursuit

I have an almost insatiable thirst for all manner of knowledge, trivial or otherwise. But this ambitious pursuit does not stem from some divine quest in search of transcendent enrichment. Rather, my behavior is solely motivated by self preservation. The more I know, the more I can prepare. The better prepared I am, the lower the chance I'll fall flat and suffer an ego blow. And honestly as far as blows go, that's the worst.

Till Next Time V.

Can't wait till June.

Duh

-Apparently you haven't noticed but she has a serious mental illness.

-It's too hard.

-It's always hard.

-House

Driving

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Oh, lover boy to you I belong
But maybe one day you'll wake
And you'll find me gone

But lover boy if you call me home
I'll come driving, I'll come driving
Fast as wheels can turn

Oh, lover boy I know you too well
And all of my lonely secrets
To you I tell

The highest of highs, the lowest of lows
I'll come driving, I'll come driving
Fast as wheels can turn
Fast as wheels can turn

Stretching away as far as my eyes can see
Deserts and darkness, my hand on the wheel
Lover boy, please call me home
A girl can get lonely out here on the road

A girl can get lonely out here on the road

You see some days I find the old ways
Frighten me too easily, I leave my key and say
I'm too young

But lover boy if you call me home
Lover boy if you call me home
Lover boy if you call me home
I'll come driving, I'll come driving
Fast as wheels can turn

Fast as wheels can turn
Fast as wheels can turn
Fast as wheels can
Fast as wheels
I'll come driving...

-Everything But The Girl (B. Watt)

DC, I Hardly Knew Thee

I miss you already!

Ego

...nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego.

-Paulina Porizkova

Sadness, failure, and despair course through my veins.

Cruelty is the Mother of Invention

You seem like a good guy you're sweet, weird in an interesting way. I like looking at you. What's wrong with you?

-Rubicon

Hypervigilance Has It's Fleeting Benefits

-My kids don't live with me.

-Since when?

-Since talking about it won't make my brain hurt.

-Rubicon

Time To Tear Down My Very Own Monkey House

When you live in the monkey house, you don't realize it stinks.

-Tim Gunn on The Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart

Finding Your Way Out Is Half The Fun

This is not what I'd consider "a good week."

I Left My Heart In San Francisco

A Lovely Visit

For You I'd Bleed Myself Dry

Amazing what happens when I follow my own advice.

No Escape

I'm surrounded by the reflection of my many failures.

Thank You For Smoking

I didn’t think it possible, yet I grow even more bitter with each passing day. But unlike the ephemeral gustatory sensation, this unwelcome experience knows no bounds. There is no maximum ceiling , or an emergency kill switch to stem the sensory overload - just more unyielding sentimental bitterness of the highest intensity. In a blink of an eye, I've catapulted from an overgrown carefree adolescent to an irritable 36-year-old curmudgeon.

Lugubrious

lu·gu·bri·ous
   
–adjective

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, esp. in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.

Vegas Baby!

Tune in next week for another episode of "Left My Soul In Vegas."

Equally Valid

My new favorite restaurant sucks!

It's not been a blockbuster year for me, financially. My Blockbuster stock is down.

-The Office

Pain

I'm in pain, every day. It changed me, made me a harder person, a worse person, and now, now I'm alone. You don't want to be like me.

-House

Alt.

-Don't you ever get tired of your own cynicism?
-Oh weary as hell. What's the alternative?

-The Mentalist

Something Wicked This Way Comes

So it finally dawned on me it's not that I'm uncomfortable out in public, it's that I'm uncomfortable out ALONE in public. Just by the virtue of being associated with someone, anyone, I gain acceptance and validation from the oh so, shuddersome public.

Cowardice Is Labeling What You Don't Want To Change As Innate.

-So I do something really stupid and you reward me. Read any parenting manual. It's not helping me. That's helping you.

-It's easier to say no to dessert than to pretend you don't eat.
-Says someone who's obviously never been on a diet.
-Oh, my life's a breeze!
-You're successful, smart, and you attract everything that moves. If you wanna focus on the fact that you're not gonna see 50, that's your choice.
-You know what, I agree with you. My self pity is optional. What about yours?

-Because if you were, you'd need to see the pain in her eyes so she could see the concern in yours.

-You won't even consider it?
-I did, just very quickly.

-I just want us to be friends.
-Funny, that's the last thing I want us to be.

-House

Are You Experienced?

At the end of the day you have to be able to remove yourself from totally criticizing every experience or you never get to enjoy an experience.

-Mario Batali

Birthday

Why would you celebrate the slowly tightening grip of death?

-The Colbert Report

The Warped Creation Of A Syphilitic Brain

I love the thrill of the chase. No 'love' can match the magnitude of of that euphoric single moment, that one unforgettable instant just before the offer of my soul is reciprocated by the object of my affection. The ecstasy of that moment, the nervous energy, the second guessing and fear, the intoxicating allure of acceptance, the fill it to the brim, trip the light fantastic, joy.

Suffer Well

-How do you put up with him all these years?
-We suffer well together.

-Justified

Deal Or No Deal

Name one thing in this world that is not negotiable.

-Breaking Bad

The Illusive Fifth Base

I'm engaged in a battle only I know I'm fighting.

I'm chasing oh so many things, yet I don't move a muscle.

I want change, but an addiction to the status quo is a mighty force and I dare guess, a far tougher habit to break than meth.

A better exercise in futility I can't recall.

At the end of the day, I just yearn to be held wrapped up in the pillowy embrace of acceptance, free from worry or shame, accepted and validated, confident and purposeful, living in blissful equilibrium, in a word, content.

That's Just How We Roll Yo'

There is no greater incentive for a human male than a damsel in distress.

-V

Pick A Side, We're At War!

The list of people Obama’s considering reads like the lineup at a lesbian lentil-muffin co-op open-mike poetry-slam.

Take US Court of Appeals Judge Diane P. Wood. According to Wikipedia, she plays both the oboe AND the English horn. Make up your mind, madam! Supreme Court justices need to be decisive, like Justice Scalia. He only plays one instrument, the Clarence Thomas.

-The Colbert Report

Insert Title Here

I'm going to write more, be it my words or others'. As in the past, I'll discretely credit the string of words to their original composers, faceless or otherwise.

"...trust has to be earned, and there are very few people he truly trusts...intellect is a shield which protects him from his emotions, and at the moment his shield is under repair...in many ways is damned by his profound knowledge of others, which is why he shares so little of himself."

- Criminal Minds

My Sweetest Perfection

-Weren't they beautiful enough for you?

-Well, why settle for beautiful when you can have perfect?

-Law & Order: Criminal Intent

A Confusing Bouquet of Emotions

When a woman tells a man about her feelings, she doesn't want him to fix her. She wants him to shut up and listen.

-Criminal Minds

Seething Mass of Loathing

WTF is wrong with me?

Bright Sunshiny Day

Beautiful morning isn't it? Shame you have to work, huh?...Yeah... anyway, I'd like a large sausage and pepperoni.

-Modern Family

Curse

-Sometimes you have an awful way of being right.

-It's the curse of having a distrustful nature.

-Law & Order