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Overheard

AT TORY ROW IN HARVARD SQUARE:

He trained them.  Monkeys riding dogs.  That was his life.

(May or may not have been a reference to this.)

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AT INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL BOSTON‘S SCREENING OF SUBMARINE:

IFFB staff member: Thanks to you all for coming out, buying tickets, and putting warm bodies in seats.

[APPLAUSE]

First guy behind me [loudly]: WOOOO!  WARM BODIES!

Second guy behind me [quietly]: I love warm bodies.

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ON THE BIKE PATH:

Isn’t that a line from Zombieland?  ”Always have an exit plan”?  So, you couldn’t run to a lighthouse.  Unless you had, like, a hot-air balloon.

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AT THE RUSH CONCERT:

Well, after all, when your lead singer is dead . . . . . . . you know?

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AT THE PARK AVENUE FESTIVAL IN ROCHESTER, NY:

Do you remember a point in time when Buffy was all there was?

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IN AN ELEVATOR:

Dude:  So, yeah, you should see Inception.

Chick:  You’re the second person who’s told me this!  Have you seen Salt?

Dude:  Uh . . . I’m gonna pass on that one.

Chick:  *GASP!*

Dude:  Angelina is done.

Chick:  . . . YOU’RE done!

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IN MACY’S:

Oh, you’re so Eat Pray Love!  I’m so jealous!

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ON THE SUBWAY:

Daft Punk is playing Yankees Stadium this summer, and I REEEEALLY want to go.  They — What?  Why is that terrible??

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IN THE MOVIE THEATER LOBBY AFTER EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP:
That was meta on top of meta.  It was very meta.

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HERMANOI listened to Europe’s “Out of This World” disc as I commuted today.  Damn, I hadn’t heard that one since junior high.  It’s just gorgeously terrible.