March 17, 2024, 10:56 a.m.

Perfect Sentences, 64

Perfect Sentences

Guilt imposes itself like a nagging cavity, you are acutely aware of its presence, but you continue to shovel the same sweets in your mouth, until your teeth rot, until you self-destruct.

"Are we indeed all Palestinians?", Mohammed El-Kurd for Mondoweiss


Wow, you have a lot of melodicas lying around!

Mike McGonigal while interviewing Jeff Mangum in 1997


(It did not occur to him that this is precisely why trans girls, who are well aware of their biology, are asking for puberty blockers: so that they do not grow up to look like Jesse Singal.)

"The Right to Change Sex", Andrea Long Chu for New York


If the knowing eye of the crab catches me I will empty all my liquids.

Chris Fleming, during a standup set at The Town Hall

Going to this standup show was a nice birthday treat! Fleming had some other incredible sentences in the show but that's the one I remembered pretty clearly and I didn't take notes during the set. Bonus perfect sentence from Fleming's recent comedy special:

You are an eel with a gun.


In October 2009, Acresso Software, Inc. became Flexera Software after a legal threat from Agresso Software.

The Wikipedia entry for Flexera

Submitted by Christian.


Design your intestine on a chip assay

The description of an "organ on a chip master class" offered by biotech company Azar Innovations

Submitted by yuva. The fact this was an item in a numbered list, without a period, is so unnerving. I love it.


The large bottle of keyboard cleaner that sits next to her, huffably, might explain this entire movie.

"Irish Wish is a Crypto-Fascist, AI-Generated Harbinger of Doom", Rachel Handler for New York

Just a good old fashioned hate-watch blog post unraveling the absolute insanity of mid-budget heteronormative romantic comedies. "Huffably" sits so nicely between those commas.


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