Oh, and…

Juuuust reading a novel on a folding chair in the kitchen right now. Well, I stopped reading it. I borrowed it from acting school. It’s a collection of short stories by J.D. Salinger, and I think some incest is going down, and it’s creeping me out.

ANYHOW, you know those moments when you realize you’re your mother? I am having one right now. I’m staring at a book I bought recently. From Barnes&Nobles. Clearance section. “1001 Greatest Things Ever Said About New York.” It’s a page-turner, lemme tell you. 

Did I need this book? No. Do I have a house to put books in? No. Maybe an apartment? No. But whatever, it was looking at me like IT NEEDED ME, so I bought it. Whatever, it was on sale!!! (That was my mother speaking, not me.)

Um….

here are some quotes from it that I like so far:

“People I know in New York are incessantly on the point of going back where they came from to write a book…”
-A.J. Liebling
(um…I think that like every day….fuck.) 

“In Manhattan if your ass was on fire, they wouldn’t piss on it to put it out.”
-Joe Flaherty

“New York is full of moments…it is performance art. It is the great leveler.”
-Annette Myers

“I love New York. I’ve got a gun.”
-Charles Barkley

Also just remembered another good Lulu story. Yesterday we were chatting in the kitchen, and I held up the newest cover of NY magazine, to show her the picture on it, because the dude was winking, and I thought she might like to see it.

Lulu took one look at the thing, and nodded knowingly. “Oh, I know that man,” she said. “He’s in my book, a million hundred cats.”

Since Lulu was referring to a book that I also liked a lot as a tot (okay, and maybe as a preteen too…), I knew what her mix-up was. She thought our first president was in “Millions of Cats.” In her defense, the cat dude and Washington on the dollar bill DO look alike.

I smiled and told her that they look similar, but that this man on the magazine was named “George Washington.” 

Lulu wrinkled her nose. “That’s a gross name.” She then continued eating grapes and giving me the stink eye.

Okaaaay, time for bed. I was going to watch an episode of GLEE first, but it hypes me up and makes me want to start dancing, so I think I’m better off with attempting to read some sort of “hard” novel, and thus getting bored and falling asleep, just like in college.

Goodnight.