Dan Poynter

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Bar Sign in Jamesport, Missouri

Normally I would say something funny, but when it comes to the sign on a bar in an Amish town that shows what appear to be a Sasquatch and an alien with an 8-ball bracelet drinking beer–I got nothin’.  

Taqueria Monarca

Taqueria Monarca is a food truck found on the 2400 block of Holmes street in Kansas City, Missouri weekdays at lunchtime. They serve tacos, burritos, tostadas and other Mexican food with your choice of meats including steak, beef, pork, chicken, chorizo, tripe, and tongue. I have tied their tacos, which are very good, but I …

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Trolling the Daughter

Quotable: Dan Harmon on storytelling

“sooner or later, we need to be someone, because if we are not inside a character, then we are not inside the story.” via St. Eutychus

Overheard: 45 year old male

“You know my wife: ‘Y’all did it, and I’m gonna prove ya did it!’”

Quotable: Steve Pettit

“People are down on what they’re not up on.”

Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene 2 CAESAR’s house [condensed]

Decius Brutus. Yo, worthy Caesar, I come to fetch you to the senate-house. Caesar. Tell them that I will not come to-day: Decius Brutus. Tell me why or they’ll laugh at me. Caesar. Tell them I said I don’t feel like it. But since I like you, I’ll let you in on a secret: Calpurnia had …

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Quotable: Denny Burk on Noah

“As far as midrash is concerned, Noah is the midrashiest midrash that ever was midrashed.” –Denny Burk from his review of Russell Crowe’s Noah, via Challies.com

What the heck, people?

I’ve long been puzzled by some of the vinyl people put on their cars, but sometimes I really have no idea what was going through someone’s head when they had something designed, or worse, found something already created that seemed to be just what they needed:

Quotable: John August

“Before you write your story, write the whole thing from the villain’s point of view, because the villain views himself as the hero in the story.”