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Dan Carlson
Houston, Texas

I'm a twentysomething white male with ambitions to be a professional film critic and generally spend my days getting paid to watch movies and write about it. A compulsive reader and stubborn cineaste, I take an often contrary stance to my more fundamentalist peers and upbringing by celebrating the pursuit of the good, and the Good, in life, love, art and film. If you watched enough episodes of certain TV shows — for starters, "The Hungry and the Hunted," "The Cut Man Cometh," "The Body," "The Zeppo," "Waiting in the Wings," "Out of Gas," "April Is the Cruelest Month," "20 Hours in America," "Colonial Day," "An Echolls Family Christmas," "Look Who's Stalking," "The Garage Door," "Charlie Gets Crippled," "Wind Sprints," and "Corner Boys" — you would understand me completely, and you'd also realize that much of my worldview and philosophical insights are heavily influenced by fictional works/programs, and many of the good things I've said in my life are just a regurgitation of someone else's imaginings, or at any rate a heartfelt attempt to interpret them. I guess I was made to be a film critic.

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November 24, 2008

Finish The Sentence: An Open Poll

By Dan Carlson

Today's phrase: "I like my women like I like my coffee...." Here are a few to start:

• "... strong and black."
• "... piping hot and sprinkled with cinnamon."
• "... topped with whipped cream."
• "... they burn going down."
• "... smelling faintly of chai."
• "... full of dirty beans."
• "... with a warning label about the contents."

Fire away.

Comments: 23

Greg Mayhew

Cold and bitter!

Josh

... ground up and in the freezer.

I like Harold Perrineau's answer in The Edge:

"Bitter and murky"

...fairly traded?
...on ice?
...a day old?

...out of an urn?

... with a distinctly nutty undertone.

all over my lap

Melanie L

On behalf of women everywhere, I'm both amused and slightly offended. :)

...in an aquarium.

- ...In a dirty cup
- ...cold and a day old
- ...Italian and Strong
- ...with my friends in the morning

...$100 per pound.

... artificially sweetened.

Kyle P

ice cold and tasting like Coca-Cola? That makes no sense.

...at least once every couple hours.

...available on every corner.

...harvested from South America, Africa and/or the Indo Pacific islands.

...[something about extra cream]

...slutty. I mean, foamy.

...grande. Wait, no.

Geetch

...covered in bees!

...full-bodied and insouciant (or is that wine?)

...in between bites of a cookie.

Karen

... leaving a stain
... with whipped cream on top
... destroying my central nervous system
... drippin'

CB

.. made to order in less than 5
.. a new blend imported fresh each week

Josh R.

. . . Quick and cheap.

Cody D

I like my women like I like my coffee...
...brown and self-loathing
...pretentious and disgusting
...powerful enough to give me the runs for a week
...having a complex taste and mysterious origins
...hot enough to burn off my taste buds
...in an unwashed IHOP carafe
...piping hot and purchased from the Pakistani man at Dunkin' Donuts

Cody D

I like my women like I like my coffee...
...brown and self-loathing
...pretentious and disgusting
...powerful enough to give me the runs for a week
...having a complex taste and mysterious origins
...hot enough to burn off my taste buds
...in an unwashed IHOP carafe
...piping hot and purchased from the Pakistani man at Dunkin' Donuts

Bo Gusname

"I like my women like I like my coffee...."

Cheap and fast

Light and sweet

to go... (away)

with a shot of whiskey

frothy

Bo Gusname

"I like my women like I like my coffee...."

Cheap and fast

Light and sweet

to go... (away)

with a shot of whiskey

frothy

Travis

... forced through a fine mesh screen.

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"The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising."
— Pauline Kael

"Film lovers are sick people."
— Francois Truffaut

"I hope I strike a blow for chubby bald men everywhere. I hope they rise like an army."
Paul Giamatti, quoted in the Los Angeles Times, 12/14/04

"Let others praise ancient times, I am glad I was born in these."
— Ovid

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Remembering speechlessly we seek the great forgotten language, the lost lane-end into heaven, a stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Where? When?

O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again.
— Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
— John Stuart Mill

We are all under the same mental calamity; we have all forgotten our names. We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.
— G.K. Chesterton

We were, for the briefest of moments, something greater than the sum of our uncertain parts; we were youth itself, in all its painful glory and sharp joy.
— Me, Fall 2003

There is a time in the lives of most writers when they are vulnerable, when the vivid dreams and ambitions of childhood seem to pale in the harsh sunlight of what we call the real world. In short, there's a time when things can go either way.
— Stephen King

Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town.
Ask the Dust, John Fante