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...Criminals are like raccoons. You give them a taste of cat food, pretty soon they’ll be back for the whole cat...
...something like, you know, "Subtle hints of cassis." And I'd be like, "What the f--- is cassis?" And so I went to Kings Super Market in Short Hills, and I was like oh, cassis. And so I started tasting those things. I'd go everywhere up to about cat pee, which is a tasting note that a lot of the sauvignon blancs have. I didn't really want to go there. But I was pretty much everywhere else...
...show that's about the mundane routine of work life, but the filming technique - in which the handheld camera reacts almost like another character - also lends itself to sitcom wackiness. The opening of its post-Super Bowl episode (a fire drill goes wrong, leading to chaos that includes a cat being thrown through a ceiling panel) was probably the funniest scene on TV this year. (See pictures of cubicle designs submitted by The Office viewers...
...horror-movie fraidy cat, know that most of the spooky stuff occurs in the bedroom, so - as with The Exorcist back in 1973 - you can steel yourself when the couple goes to sleep. Then too, you may not be scared at all by Paranormal Activity; but as you sit in a movie house, you should feel some fraternal pleasure in noticing that the folks around you are preparing or pretending to be scared. And you should be heartened to realize that - in an age of YouTube, iPod and DVR, where people get their visual media one by one - watching...
Another distinction: we may want our national leaders to be personally humble, just as we would like them to be kind and generous and to take out the cat litter each night. (Funnily enough, of the hundreds of politicians I've met over the years, humble is a description that comes to mind for very few. Now that I think about it: none.) But we do not really want them to be politically humble. Passivity and resignation in the face of challenge may, in some religious-belief systems, represent an admirable surrender to the will of the Almighty...