why_not Q Sheriff: If the guy comes back here, try to detain him. Vic: Detain him? Sheriff: Yeah. Vic: How? Sheriff: I don't know! Offer him a cup of coffee or something. Vic: And then what? Sheriff: Then, you know, call me! I'll come and arrest him, I guess! Vic: And in the meantime this French sociopath stabs me and Mike to death! Mike: Fuck that, man! Sheriff: Oh, you want my job? Vic: No, we don't want your job! We just want a little protection! Sheriff: Protection! Vic: Yeah! Sheriff: Protection! Certainty! Assurance! Security! Vic: (Lost) Well, yeah. That too, I guess. Sheriff: (In a fit) You want confidence! A pledge! Safety! Guarantee! Promises! Expectation! Consideration! Sincerity! Selflessness! Intimacy. Attraction. Gentleness. Understanding. An understanding without words. Dependence without resentment. (Begins trailing off.) Affection... To belong... Possession... Loss. Mike: Hey, Sheriff, everything OK at home? Sheriff: (Weakly) Why do women exist? Excerpt from the movie "Simple Men" by Hal Hartley (see www.best.com/~drumz/Hartley/Quotes) 000619 ... Q For another colloquy, between Ned and Bill (haha), from the same movie, see sully 000620 ... the smoke coloured melancholy bird hmmm, i preferred "Trust" but for reasons i have stated earlier. the sight of the Adrienne Shelly in that film strikes a little too close 000620 ... whirligirl haven't seen "Trust" yet... saw "Surviving Desire" which was pretty good. "Simple Men" had a happier ending. hehe. i love irony. these movies are full of it. 000620 ... moonshine Why not? Why NOT! Because it makes me want to vomit thats why. 000819 ... j_blue because i black out, and wake up with a scrape on my knee or with my pants down, in a strange living room, with flecks of dried vomit all over me, feeling violated or in someone's room, in their bed, naked. there he is. who is he? what_should_i_do? 020118 ... bethany haven't said it enough lately 020214 ... yummyC the best reasoning when you can't come up with anything else at the top of your head. and most of the time I get this response, its hard to argue. 020214 ... kx21 A M_Species of Man_talk / Woman_nag about Q_As... 030228 ... notme why can't i write anything anything without losing what i was talking about my place in line why can't i relate to myself i'm just hovering here stranded in glass breaking remembering some other life some other life i can't relate i'm not a ragpicker i'm not a pony no home no gate no swirling skirt and strawberries on sunday i'm not the starting gun not a green field with sleeves so blue and bonnie i'm not a doctor in this face of armies i'm notme i don't know nobody 031205 ... notme because_why why_because 040427 ... once again Why me? Wh not? 040427 ... kx21 = AQ Spice + QQ Spark... 040428 ... Christine Found this place by chance Isn't that how it always happens? Didn't quite see the circles at first yet recognized a form of expression i could dig Take me for what i am... A work in progress 050308 ... stork daddy and yet already sufficient in so many expanding and retracting ways. 050308 ... nom) why not not 051112 ... oren In Kentucky, 50% of_the people who get married for the first_time are teenagers. 060416 ... one wrecked angle why don't we just fall in love for an hour for a day a year or ten or forever and not worry about where the edge of that number is? because the fires are growing, raging out of control, and what else can we have? 070823 ... stukadukadush skoooooommphiiiiiiiiiiiiiibbbbbaaaaaaaaaaaaa! ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!! 081118 ... three words why_not prefer falling_star_wishes 110706 what's it to you? who go blather from