Thirteen: Baa

"Grote is our best merchant: He could sell sheep shit to shepherds."
David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Twelve: For Adam's (Belated) Birthday

"But what is the difference between literature and journalism?...

Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all."
Oscar Wilde, 1891

Oscar Wilde cleared up our literature vs. journalism debate long before we were born.

Eleven: Overheard in Starbucks

"I don’t even know how many poke wars im in right now."

Apparently the poke button is still being used by high school-aged girls in Astoria.

Ten: Farmers Market Fear

"I'm scared of farmers markets."

Overheard in Prospect Park Farmers Market last Saturday, August 21st

Nine: That's a Big Salad

"Eat the world, leaf by leaf." 

After her divorce (1913), author Edith Wharton wrote to a friend that she planned to "eat the world, leaf by leaf."Talk about turning over a new leaf!

Eight: Authors are funnier than aurors.

"Your Doxin can play Twister on it" - Author Gary Shteyngart commenting on the cover of his new novel, Super Sad True Love Story.

Seven: Life-challenged Buds

"I just realized zombieism is just cannibalism in virus form" - Brick Heck, The Middle (T.V. Program)

(Thanks for creating the title and uploading this last-minute blog post, Adam Reichardt!)