Ben's Blog

Here you will find assorted cat pictures and things that amuse me.

sweet tits.: I didn’t know where I was when I woke up after a horrible bad dream....

His name is Theo and he licked your face until you woke up. And then I spent an hour trying to keep from eating the cookies that Amanda baked the night before.

hellyesgertrude:

I didn’t know where I was when I woke up after a horrible bad dream. It was one of the worst dreams I have ever had. It made me wake up crying and terrified that it was real. My heart hurts.

But

I did when I did realize where I was, there was a cute cat laying with me and licking my arm. I think…

(Source: yeahgretchen)

Everyday something makes me laugh. I’m having a blast in Aruba but it sucks being away from everyone. And not being able to use my phone is a pain. I’ll enjoy the rest of my vacation but it’ll be nice to get back and spend time with the girlfriend :)

Everyday something makes me laugh. I’m having a blast in Aruba but it sucks being away from everyone. And not being able to use my phone is a pain. I’ll enjoy the rest of my vacation but it’ll be nice to get back and spend time with the girlfriend :)

Ha

Ha

gq: Bill Murray Will See You Now How about Garfield? Can you explain that to me? Did you just do it for the dough? No! I didn’t make that for the dough! Well, not completely. I thought it would be kind of fun, because doing a voice is challenging, and I’d never done that. Plus, I looked at the script, and it said, “So-and-so and Joel Coen.” And I thought: Christ, well, I love those Coens! They’re funny. So I sorta read a few pages of it and thought, Yeah, I’d like to do that. I had these agents at the time, and I said, “What do they give you to do one of these things?” And they said, “Oh, they give you $50,000.” So I said, “Okay, well, I don’t even leave the fuckin’ driveway for that kind of money.” And it’s not like you’re helping out an indie director by playing Garfield. Exactly. He’s in 3,000 newspapers every day; he’s not hurtin’. Then this studio guy calls me up out of nowhere, and I had a nice conversation with him. No bullshit, no schmooze, none of that stuff. We just talked for a long time about the movie. And my agents called on Monday and said, “Well, they came back with another offer, and it was nowhere near[beat]“That’s the line? Well, I can’t say that.” And you sit there and go, What can I say that will make this funny? And make it make sense? And I worked. I was exhausted, soaked with sweat, and the lines got worse and worse. And I said, “Okay, you better show me the whole rest of the movie, so we can see what we’re dealing with.” So I sat down and watched the whole thing, and I kept saying, “Who the hell cut this thing? Who did this? What the fuck was Coen thinking?” And then they explained it to me: It wasn’t written by that Joel Coen. Our favorite bit from GQ senior editor Dan Fierman’s electric Q+A with Bill Murray from August 2010, which the very excellent Longform.org just picked as one of year’s five best interviews. If you ask us, it’s one of the one best interviews of 2010, but we’re biased because we love Bill Murray, and Dan’s OK too. (Also: how bout that great Daniel Clowes illustration, huh?)

gq:

Bill Murray Will See You Now

How about Garfield? Can you explain that to me? Did you just do it for the dough?

No! I didn’t make that for the dough! Well, not completely. I thought it would be kind of fun, because doing a voice is challenging, and I’d never done that. Plus, I looked at the script, and it said, “So-and-so and Joel Coen.” And I thought: Christ, well, I love those Coens! They’re funny. So I sorta read a few pages of it and thought, Yeah, I’d like to do that. I had these agents at the time, and I said, “What do they give you to do one of these things?” And they said, “Oh, they give you $50,000.” So I said, “Okay, well, I don’t even leave the fuckin’ driveway for that kind of money.”

And it’s not like you’re helping out an indie director by playing Garfield.

Exactly. He’s in 3,000 newspapers every day; he’s not hurtin’. Then this studio guy calls me up out of nowhere, and I had a nice conversation with him. No bullshit, no schmooze, none of that stuff. We just talked for a long time about the movie. And my agents called on Monday and said, “Well, they came back with another offer, and it was nowhere near[beat]“That’s the line? Well, I can’t say that.” And you sit there and go, What can I say that will make this funny? And make it make sense? And I worked. I was exhausted, soaked with sweat, and the lines got worse and worse. And I said, “Okay, you better show me the whole rest of the movie, so we can see what we’re dealing with.” So I sat down and watched the whole thing, and I kept saying, “Who the hell cut this thing? Who did this? What the fuck was Coen thinking?” And then they explained it to me: It wasn’t written by that Joel Coen.

Our favorite bit from GQ senior editor Dan Fierman’s electric Q+A with Bill Murray from August 2010, which the very excellent Longform.org just picked as one of year’s five best interviews. If you ask us, it’s one of the one best interviews of 2010, but we’re biased because we love Bill Murray, and Dan’s OK too. (Also: how bout that great Daniel Clowes illustration, huh?)

Right?

Right?

“You’re not the breath I breathe, just the sweet scent that I enjoy. You’re not the sights I see, just the most beautiful of them. You’re not the water I drink, just the flavor that makes it taste so good. You’re not the ground I walk on, just the partner I sometimes lean on. You’re not the blood in my veins, just what makes it burn so sweetly. You’re not my life, just the one I want to spend it with. You’re not my world, just the best thing in it.”


- This one made me think of you. This is pretty much what I wish I could have told you a few days ago, but, you know, I’m not that eloquent. Thank you for loving me like you do. I could never thank you enough for that. I love you so much. Talk to you soon.

My First Post

Its on my list of 101 things to do in 1001 days, so I figured I ought to start and maintain a blog. I chose tumblr because my wonderful girlfriend uses it and she’s always posting cute things and now I can too. So here goes, Only 900+ days to maintain this bad boy.