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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.

Submitted by Richard on Sun, 2008-08-17 22:41

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King of the Hill

Hank Hill

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.

Submitted by Richard on Fri, 2008-01-04 04:55

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Jeru the Damaja

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.

Submitted by Richard on Thu, 2007-12-13 18:54

hard to read like graffiti

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

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

Submitted by Richard on Fri, 2007-11-30 02:12

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").

Submitted by Richard on Sun, 2007-07-29 22:09

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OPEC

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]

Submitted by Richard on Sun, 2007-07-22 15:47

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Crooklyn Dodgers

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.”

Submitted by Richard on Fri, 2007-06-22 02:53

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Greg Bear