“The economics of city rebuilding do not rest soundly on reasoned investment of public tax subsidies, as urban renewal theory proclaims, but also on vast, involuntary subsidies wrung out of helpless site victims.”
—Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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First person to correctly name the song from which I pulled this random lyrical transcription wins.

I stop for a cigarette
all those trials and things they try and see
we’re wandering through water and sand
land, land ho!
won’t you leave?

What you win is up to me and likely to approach zero. I, however, feel particularly victorious, because after [...]

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So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I’m a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The [...]

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Tell him it’s a boom in child prostitution when he show up at the stroll give him lead restitution

You could throw a twenty in a vat ‘o hot oil when he jump in after it watch him boil

Toss a dollar in the river and when he jump in if you can find he can swim
put [...]

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Architecture, Nature, Alcohol, Space Travel, Rock ‘n’ Roll.

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Black Sabbath! Cigarettes! Black Sabbath! Cigarettes!!!

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From my project manager trying to describe a trick situation:
“As far as the transport work go, we in a catch 20-20.”
Wow. I need a numbing. Now.

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”(You’re so ugly), I could stick your face in some dough and make gorilla cookies.”
—Fred G. Sanford

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Information Week Quote of the Week: “Sun I would frankly not call a highly successful competitor right now.” HP CED Carly Fiorina at a meeting with securities analyst, refuting an analyst’s comment that successful computer companies must develop their own middleware.

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