Tryin' a little too hard quote of the moment

How does one use words to describe a festival designed to leave you speechless? Well, since we are highly paid professionals here, we'll give it a try: Electric Daisy Carnival, the world's largest electronic dance music festival, is so full of eye-slappin,' earhole-blasting whiz-banger-y, it's like waterboarding your senses in Red Bull and/or outfitting your adrenal gland with a booster rocket and launching that bad boy to the moon — but only if the moon were, in fact, a giant glowing subwoofer.

--Jason Bracelin

Quote of the moment

The 21st century, to be honest, sucks.

--Sam Anderson 

Imponderable headline of the moment

What happens to Cup Noodle Mystery Meat when you cook it in a rice cooker?

--soranews24.com

Creaky quote of the moment

We're old guys. We deserve to be allowed to do whatever we want to do.

--John Oates

Clarifying terms quote of the moment

Nearby is "what appears to be an enormous stylized phallus," meaning penis.

--Patrick Smith

Guess the century headline of the moment

Harvard Will Require Test Scores for Admission

--NYT

Vacancy quote of the moment

Look, I'm not for everyone anymore. I'm just not. And if you want to come and scream and yell and get drunk, don't come to my show.

--John Mellencamp

Must read of the moment

https://www.cracked.com/article_41748_how-waffle-house-became-americas-premier-fighting-game-stage.html 

Godzilla quote of the moment

In the MonsterVerse, Godzilla is very much like the white blood cell of planet Earth — he's here to protect it.

--Adam Wingard

Playing your part quote of the moment

On the first Saturday in March, hundreds of people came to the de la Cruz Collection in Miami to attend a memorial service for its founder, the revered art patron and philanthropist Rosa de la Cruz, who had died a week earlier at her Key Biscayne home at the age of 81. Real estate developer Craig Robins gave a speech. Fellow collectors Mera and Don Rubell brought a cheesecake.

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--Katya Kazakina

Datum of the moment

All Americans eat 1.3B microbes/day.

--Smithsonian

Courage is where you find it quote of the moment

Do not be afraid of eggs.

--James O'Keefe

Borderline headline of the moment

'Eye-wounding erection': UK public art that is loved or hated

--theguardian.com

Authoritative quote of the moment

I grew up in South Florida and my knowledge of stained-glass lamps came from Pizza Hut and Applebee's.

--Autumn Casey

Quote of the moment

Philosophy gives no immunity against self-deceit.

--Bill Mayer

Warm glow of tourism quote of the moment

In the past decade or so, an aurora borealis industrial complex has boomed in Iceland. 

--Amelia Nierenberg

quote of the moment

Most authors are lucky to sell 10,000 books.

--Elizabeth Harris

Geriatric quote of the moment

Do not stand if it blocks the view of others

--Charlotte Spectrum Center Eagles Concert P.A.

Quote of the moment

For three days, agents, editors, publishers, scouts and many other people whose jobs are harder to explain gather in a frenzied fashion, primarily to sell and buy foreign rights for English-language books, but also to take temperatures, observe prevailing winds and scheme.

--Rosa Lyster

Quote of the moment

Nutrition is a science, not an opinion.

--Christy Wilson