Actually I was only in the apartment at Buffalo St. for a semester before I got the hell out of Cornell. I lived with Mason, Chris and Rachel who were great housemates. We had one keg party, a deck(as per Chris' request), a slightly kooky landlord, and a "furniture major" upstairs, who would start cramming for his cabinet-building final at about 11 pm, when most of us were falling asleep on our textbooks. Several of these quotes are from Risleyites because Risley was my 2nd home. Josh started the whole thing when he wrote that immortal line you see in my CHEM253 notes...
I got the sort of madness Socrates talked about, "a divine release of the soul from the yoke
of custom and convention."...if you spend too much time thinking about reality, you could
go stark raving mad. My space chums think it's a primitive form of crowd control that got
out of hand...it was too demanding: it expected me to be there all the time, and with all I
have to do, I had to let something go. Now that I've put reality on the back burner, my
days are jam-packed and fun-filled...When I think of all the fun I missed, I try not to be
bitter.-"Trudy", The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Jane Wagner
The endust not justify the meandust.-Greg Proops
All my life, I've wanted to be somebody, now I know I should've been more specific.-
"Chrissy", The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Jane Wagner
There is a place in hell reserved for me and my friends.-Morrissey
For life, is like that candle flame, and we are like Gordon Liddy's hand hovering over it.
And it hurts like hell, but the trick is not to mind it. I MIND IT!-"Agnes", The Search for Signs
of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Jane Wagner
straight...NOT-t-shirt
...they just keep going and going...-girl @ Russ' birthday party(Oakland 8/21/92)
Reunite Pangea-Steve's mug
BEER is a four letter word.-me
-Bi. You know, bi.
-Bilingual?-The Rules of Attraction, Bret Easton Ellis
I remember you/you drive like a PTA mother...Sometimes I wish I were Catholic/I don't
know why-Cracker
GS is a two-letter acronym-Mason(9/29/92)
Really need a spank
Some whips and chains would be nice
Flagellate me, please.-haiku bandit
Life is Short. Play Dead.-bumper sticker
...naw, just a misdemeanor. Oh darn!-Auntie Ezra
Hey you little fuck
I know you're looking at it
Meat thermometer.-Jsh & Dan
Mao-the 29¢ Wood Duck(Aix sponsa)
Gesundheit.-Mark#1
The hand of God has got wrinkles 'bout the size of Texas-Soundgarden "Hand of God"
BAD COP/NO DOUGHNUT-theatre compay
Echy blurble squig squig squig-Count Ollie(1,2,3...er...many)
The devil wants to fuck me in the back of his car-nin
Worship skinny guys
Rhinoceros Factory
Josh has a nice ass-Ksandy
Phasianid McNuggets-any BioS 475 refugee
"You'll stick that way permanently, you know"-friend of Remi's, House of Usher(1/5/93)
"Is there a problem with that?"-me
"Is that a promise?"-Remi
Avocado!-Tristan, trying to be spontaneous
Don't hate me because I'm beautiful,
Hate me for the thrill of it.-1 1/2 floor stairwell, Wurster hall
She is about to lambada this trite conveyance.-Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson(duh!)
Uh, you two are melting the plastic over there.-Tanya @ GoB (12/92)
Tell them there's a reading of the Mahabarata at Cody's...by the author.-Remi(1/14/93)