Look at the Books

From The Marriage Plot, on being judged by your book collection:

There was, in short,  this mid-size but still portable library representing pretty much everything Madeleine had read in college, a collection of texts, seemingly chosen at random, whose focus slowly narrowed, like a personality test, a sophisticated one you couldn't trick by anticipating the implications of its questions and finally got so lost in that your only recourse was to answer the simple truth.  And then you waited for the result, hoping for "Artistic," or "Passionate," thinking you could live with "Sensitive," secretly fearing "Narcissistic" and "Domestic," but finally being presented with an outcome that cut both ways and made you feel different depending on the day, the hour, or the guy you happened to be dating: "Incurably Romantic."

Dear Tina Fey

I have a new girl crush.  Thanks for Bossypants.

On playing SNL's sketch about the Vice Presidential debates in 2008:

... I thought the speeches that Jim Downey wrote for Jason Sudeikis as Joe Biden were brilliant.  Especially the stuff where Biden is trying to prove that he's not some Washington elite by talking about how he's from Scranton, Pennsylvania, "the most godforsaken place on earth."  I thought that was ingenious, because not only was the ad hominen attack on Scranton a hilarious comedy left turn, it also exemplified what the election had become.  Instead of talking about issues, everybody was trying to prove how "down-home" they were.  "I'm just like you" was the subtext of every speech. 

Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.  In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff?  "I'm not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons.  I'm just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I'd like to cut your chest open."  The crowd cheers.