Lifting the Veil, by Calvin Tomkins (New Yorker article on John Currin)
Rachel Feinstein [Currin’s wife], who loves to cook and does it so robustly that John has to work out at the gym every day to stay in shape, had brought the dessert – three pies from the Balthazar bakery.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008
May 30, 2008 -- Return of Sex and the City
Sex and the City
Miranda: I don’t need to make pies. I’m practically a partner in a major law firm. If I want pie I can buy it.
Miranda: I don’t need to make pies. I’m practically a partner in a major law firm. If I want pie I can buy it.
May 29, 2998
Deborah Madison, Cooking Light, “Rhubarb”
In fact, rhubarb is widely known by its nickname, “pie plant.”
In fact, rhubarb is widely known by its nickname, “pie plant.”
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
May 28, 2008
A Winter's Tale, by Mark Helprin
p. 222: She looked around, convinced she was about to be encoiled by the swift forty-foot tongue that could catch a cherry pie the way a darter newt catches a bloime bug.
p. 222: She looked around, convinced she was about to be encoiled by the swift forty-foot tongue that could catch a cherry pie the way a darter newt catches a bloime bug.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
May 27, 2008
Life Class, by Pat Barker
p. 131: After a stodgy rhubarb pie had been served and valiantly consumed …
p. 131: After a stodgy rhubarb pie had been served and valiantly consumed …
Monday, May 26, 2008
May 26, 2008
Waitress
Jenna: Honey, I’m just here to bring you pie or coffee or some’in like that. I don’t dispense romantic advice.
Jenna: Honey, I’m just here to bring you pie or coffee or some’in like that. I don’t dispense romantic advice.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
May 25, 2008
Pushing Daisies
Dilly Balsam: Do you like excitement, Pie Man?
Narrator: The Pie Maker did not like excitement.
Dilly Balsam: Do you like excitement, Pie Man?
Narrator: The Pie Maker did not like excitement.
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Friday, May 23, 2008
May 23, 2008
The Simpsons
Marge pulls guns out of a pie.
Marge (to Homer): You’re a killer for hire!
Homer: You ruined that pie!
Marge pulls guns out of a pie.
Marge (to Homer): You’re a killer for hire!
Homer: You ruined that pie!
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
May 21, 2008
Spongebob Squarepants
Clown: Hello folks. I’m gonna skip right past the jokes and proceed immediately to the part where I throw a pie at you.
Clown: Hello folks. I’m gonna skip right past the jokes and proceed immediately to the part where I throw a pie at you.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
May 20, 2008
Gilmore Girls
Lorelai: Hit me with the pie.
Luke: What pie?
Lorelai: The boysenberry pie.
Luke: We’re out of boysenberry pie.
Lorelai: How can you be out of boysenberry pie?
Luke: Because someone ordered the last piece.
Lorelai: Hit me with the pie.
Luke: What pie?
Lorelai: The boysenberry pie.
Luke: We’re out of boysenberry pie.
Lorelai: How can you be out of boysenberry pie?
Luke: Because someone ordered the last piece.
Monday, May 19, 2008
May 19, 2008
Scott Tobias, in The Onion: A.V. Club, reviewing My Blueberry Nights
… the film views the nation’s cities as all night hide-aways where doomed romantics can suck gin, fork a pie, and quietly lament loves lost or never found.
… the film views the nation’s cities as all night hide-aways where doomed romantics can suck gin, fork a pie, and quietly lament loves lost or never found.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
May 18, 2008
Special Topics in Calamity Physics, by Marisha Pessl
p. 243: A gasp of the kitchen door, and she reappeared, carrying a tray piled with a sagging piece of apple pie, a wine bottle, a glass, a pot of tea.
p. 243: A gasp of the kitchen door, and she reappeared, carrying a tray piled with a sagging piece of apple pie, a wine bottle, a glass, a pot of tea.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Friday, May 16, 2008
May 16, 2008
Pushing Daisies
Olive: I didn’t think you’d do this. I thought you were all goody-goody, apple pie and baseball.
Chuck: Only in so far as a I know how to use a baseball bat make someone’s face look like an apple pie.
Olive: I didn’t think you’d do this. I thought you were all goody-goody, apple pie and baseball.
Chuck: Only in so far as a I know how to use a baseball bat make someone’s face look like an apple pie.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
May 14, 2008
A Comet Appears, by The Shins
Every post you can hitch your faith on,
It’s a pie in the sky, chock full of lies,
A tool we devise, to make sinking stones fly
Every post you can hitch your faith on,
It’s a pie in the sky, chock full of lies,
A tool we devise, to make sinking stones fly
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
May 13, 2008
Gary Susman, in Entertainment Weekly “This Was the Year of … Pie”
Why pie? Pie is memory; what the Madeleine was to Proust, the fruit-filled pastry is to Americans.
Why pie? Pie is memory; what the Madeleine was to Proust, the fruit-filled pastry is to Americans.
Monday, May 12, 2008
May 12, 2008
King of the Hill
Hank (in Mexico): No food … you’re gonna get sick, and this ain’t some two-mile ride from a pie-eating contest.
Hank (in Mexico): No food … you’re gonna get sick, and this ain’t some two-mile ride from a pie-eating contest.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
May 11, 2008
Scrubs
Dani (suggestively): I’m not gonna stick around for one cup of coffee.
JD: Ok … two cups – and some pie.
Dani (suggestively): I’m not gonna stick around for one cup of coffee.
JD: Ok … two cups – and some pie.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
May 10, 2008 - Happy Art Car Parade!
The Simpsons
Marge: That’s a great idea. To celebrate, I’ll go whip us up some chex mix pie.
Marge: That’s a great idea. To celebrate, I’ll go whip us up some chex mix pie.
Friday, May 9, 2008
May 9, 2008
Waitress
Joe: Pie Lady, listen to me. This life’ll kill ya. I’m sayin’, make the right choice. Start fresh.
Joe: Pie Lady, listen to me. This life’ll kill ya. I’m sayin’, make the right choice. Start fresh.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
May 8, 2008
Pushing Daisies
Emerson: Maybe it’s a broad generalization, but my guess is an attractive man who makes pies for a living shouldn’t spend even a short amount of time in prison.
Emerson: Maybe it’s a broad generalization, but my guess is an attractive man who makes pies for a living shouldn’t spend even a short amount of time in prison.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
May 7, 2008
Reaper
(Cannibal Soul comes of out of his mother’s kitchen, picking his teeth.)
Sock: You sick, sociopathic bastard. How could you?
Cannibal: I was hungry. All she had was pie.
Sock: She loved you through everything. She supported you completely. And you killed her because you didn’t want to eat delicious PIE?!
(Cannibal Soul comes of out of his mother’s kitchen, picking his teeth.)
Sock: You sick, sociopathic bastard. How could you?
Cannibal: I was hungry. All she had was pie.
Sock: She loved you through everything. She supported you completely. And you killed her because you didn’t want to eat delicious PIE?!
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
May 6, 2008
Entertainment Weekly, review of Rescue Dawn
It’s no news that Bale is an actor who thrives on the Outward Bound school of character preparation; mastering the technicalities of privation are simple as pie (or a starvation diet of no pie)
It’s no news that Bale is an actor who thrives on the Outward Bound school of character preparation; mastering the technicalities of privation are simple as pie (or a starvation diet of no pie)
Monday, May 5, 2008
May 5, 2008
The Daily Show
Samantha Bee, mimicking NILFs (News Anchors I’d Like to Fuck): We’re just two girls, sittin’ back, talkin’ ‘bout the Senate … hey Alex, wanna take off our tops and bake a pie?
Samantha Bee, mimicking NILFs (News Anchors I’d Like to Fuck): We’re just two girls, sittin’ back, talkin’ ‘bout the Senate … hey Alex, wanna take off our tops and bake a pie?
Sunday, May 4, 2008
May 4, 2008
Fake Empire, by The National
Stay out super late tonight, picking apples, making pies
put a little something in our lemonade and take it with us.
We're half-awake in a fake empire.
We're half-awake in a fake empire.
Stay out super late tonight, picking apples, making pies
put a little something in our lemonade and take it with us.
We're half-awake in a fake empire.
We're half-awake in a fake empire.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
May 3, 2008
Easy Monday Crosswords, “Following Suit” by Diane Epperson
21 Down: Slapstick Prop
Answer: Pie
21 Down: Slapstick Prop
Answer: Pie
Friday, May 2, 2008
Thursday, May 1, 2008
May 1, 2008
The Colbert Report
Colbert: I have nothing against feminists … I’d bake a pie with any of them.
Colbert: I have nothing against feminists … I’d bake a pie with any of them.
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