Subject: Miscellaneous (Page 70)

His face was all plowed up

This is gooder'n grits.

Whenever you read a good book, it’s like the author is right there, in the room talking to you, which is why I don’t like to read good books.

Looks like you came to a goat’s house for wool!

Well, knock me down and call me 'Shorty'!

Plastic Jesus

Though a scant 100 minutes long, After Earth feels longer and slower than your average PBS pledge drive.

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She is so smart, even her teachers play chess with her.

He learned to whisper in a sawmill.

Colder than a witch's tit in a brass bra.

Rarely has the phrase "going through the motions" felt more fitting.

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If you’re robbing a bank and you’re pants fall down, I think it’s okay to laugh and to let the hostages laugh too, because, come on, life is funny.

Poor as gully dirt

Can’t the Marx Brothers be arrested and maybe even tortured for all the confusion and problems they’ve caused?

If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you’ll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.

Fix your plate.

If promises were persimmons, possums could eat good at her place.

She Offered Her Honor, He Honored Her Offer, and All Through the Night it Was Honor and Offer

Didn’t lick it off a stone

We didn't plan to take 'em to raise.

If he had a brain and was a bird, he’d fly backwards.