“Don’t forget to check out the galley. That’s real shag carpeting!” – Captain McAllister The title of yesterday’s episode, “A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again”, is a reference to a famous 1996 David Foster Wallace article for Harper’s, in which he embarked on a giant luxury liner to experience the narrow, selfish, and vapid thinking that underlies the modern cruise industry (as well as the bland and mostly uninteresting people who think of it as the height of fun). It’s an enjoyably cruel piece of writing (it was later used as the headline piece to a…
Day: April 30, 2012
Quote of the Day
“I wish you’d stop spreading bad rumors about people. Remember how you got Grampa tarred and feathered?” – Marge Simpson “Sure, that was twenty minutes ago.” – Bart Simpson “Gonna be in the tub for a while.” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson