"If somebody ties me up in a room, or holds a gun to my head -- well, I would
kill the person... if I wasn't restrained."
--A loud guy at Jupiter, who was apparently already drunk at 5pm.

"I have a horrible confession to make. I've been watching the OC."
"Nooooo. Not that. Do you know what that is? It's just the 9021-OC. Who's their star? Peter Gallagher? Do you recall he played a corpse in a Sandra Bullock movie?"
"Coma patient, not a corpse. Much more acting ability required."
--A girl and a guy at Max's Cafe

"A hundred dollars?"
"They haven't played together in twenty years!"
"And here I thought shelling out forty-three dollars to watch a jumbotron on Radiohead was madness."
"Oh, they had nosebleed seats for forty or so."
"But in Oakland Arena... from up there you'd just be able to see their bald spots."
--A girl and a guy outside Arizmendi bakery

"Well maybe then he'd have to choose between us."
"Ok, you're talking about bringing life forms into the world just to make your man settle down?"
"A baby is a life, not a life form."
"I wouldn't make some poor amoeba part of this plan, and that amoeba wouldn't even have to have that jerk as a father."
--Two women talking in the bathroom at Straits Cafe

"Are you going to challenge me if I try to play 'hamsuit'?"
"Not if you wear one, to prove such a thing exists."
--A girl and a guy in a group of folks playing Scrabble at Raleigh's.

"I don't know, it's hard to put it in words."
"Too much Chex, not enough mix. That's your problem."
"Ok, I guess it isn't hard to put into metaphor. Just words."
--Two girls talking outside Ross

In Passing's in the news again! I did an email interview with a reporter from the Daily Cal, and the site got a mention in his article about weblogs in Berkeley. Check it out here.

And for those of you interested in checking out other weblogs in Berkeley, I recommend Berkeley Blogs, which is probably the most comprehensive list out there.

"I'm quite the coffeefly."
"What's that?"
"It's like a barfly, but for coffee."
"I think you'd be a cafefly then."
"But that's just silly."
--A woman and a man outside that coffee shop on College whose name I forget but is a block away from A Cuppa Tea.

"How could he not want to buy two ladies tea?"
--A genuinely surprised woman outside Arizmendi Bakery in Oakland

"We're not allowed to actually say that. But I can say something like, 'The fruit nut bar? Well, do you like health food? Do you like the taste of health food? Do you like the newspaper?' And let them guess from there."
--A guy working at Starbucks.