Quote of the Day (Leslie Jamison, on the Facebook and Actual Versions of Life)

“There’s the Facebook version of life, and there’s the actual version. Even though I feel really grateful for my husband and family, any utterly tranquil, blissful domestic tableau probably has its own complicated truth behind it.” — American novelist and essayist Leslie Jamison quoted in Ruth Shalit Barrett, “Where’s the Train Wreck?  Can Leslie Jamison Top The Empathy Exams With Her Mega-Memoir of Addiction?,” New York, March 19-Apr. 1, 2018

(The accompanying photo of Leslie Jamison was taken at the 2014 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, on Oct. 24, 2014, by Larry D. Moore.)

TV Quote of the Day (“Dr. Evil,” Revealing His 2020 Plans)

“I found the perfect running mate, the only man more hated than Donald Trump.” (A campaign poster fills the screen: "Evil/Zuckerberg 2020.") “Hey, America, get ready to be poked!” (begins to laugh diabolically)—“Dr. Evil” (played by Mike Myers), describing his firing from the Trump Cabinet (he was the “ideas” man) and his plans for the next Presidential election, appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Apr. 5, 2018

Quote of the Day (Stiller and Meara, on the Inventor of Facebook)

Anne Meara: "You know there's a new movie coming out about the guy who invented Facebook?"

Jerry Stiller: "Somebody INVENTED Facebook? What kind of a person would that be?"

Meara: "A person who is very bright, and figured a lot of people want to share the mundane, miserable moments of their lives with other people: 'I'm your friend, and I just came back from going to the john. I thought you'd want to know.'" —Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller, from their Web series “Stiller and Meara: A Show About Everything," quoted in “N.Y.C.-Born Anne Meara, Comedian-Turned-Actress,” The Record (Bergen County, NJ), May 25, 2015

 
Remembering Anne Meara (1929-2015): half of the comedy duo Stiller and Meara with her husband of 61 years, Jerry Stiller; mother of actor-director Ben Stiller; and award-winning actress and playwright in her own right.

Quote of the Day (Comic Giulia Rozzi, on the ‘Best Divorce Ever’)

“I had the best divorce ever. I know this because I wrote ‘I’m getting a divorce!’ on Facebook and my husband was the first to click LIKE.”-- Stand-up comic Giulia Rozzi, quoted in “Joke of the Week,” TimeOut New York, May 22-28, 2014

Quote of the Day (Andy Borowitz, on Twofacebook)

“I’ve invented Twofacebook, the antisocial network. You start being friends with the entire world and defriend people one by one.”—Humorist Andy Borowitz, on Twitter, February 5, 2012

Quote of the Day (Stephen Marche, on the ‘Beauty of Facebook’)

“The beauty of Facebook, the source of its power, is that it enables us to be social while sparing us the embarrassing reality of society—the accidental revelations we make at parties, the awkward pauses, the farting and the spilled drinks and the general gaucherie of face-to-face contact. Instead, we have the lovely smoothness of a seemingly social machine. Everything’s so simple: status updates, pictures, your wall.”— Stephen Marche, “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?”, The Atlantic, May 2012