“Sort of like Amazon.com, but with pork”
Winking Chefs = Vero Ristorante Italiano
2008
I’m curious why these Italian chefs’ default expression is a wink. Are they letting you in on a secret? If so, can plaster chefs be trusted with such confidential matters? Or is there deception at work, i.e. if I have to tell you it’s a “True Italian Restaurant” is it really a true Italian restaurant?
Andrew Bird in the N.Y. Times Measure for Measure Blog
2008
The only thing that separates a mess of seemingly disparate observations and a song is a moment of excessive confidence. As time goes on words and ideas begin to catch and gather around the original suspiciously arbitrary seeds of inspiration. There are times when I must admit that all the verse has in common with the chorus is that they both came out of my imagination, but isn’t that enough?