Welcome home!

Some friends of ours moved to Palm Springs about two years ago, for no good reason other than to prove it could be done. Or something like that. Above is a typical street scene there, probably the local Junior NRA chapter out buying drugs.

Now, however, they have returned. Here's what you missed, courtesy of Overheard in New York:

Guy #1: I bought my dad a Clint Eastwood biography for Christmas. I feel like that's a pretty solid bet for any dad. Clint, Frank Sinatra, maybe Brando.
Guy #2: What about James Dean?
Guy #1: Yeah, I guess. What about that Vin Diesel?
Guy #3: You are seriously obsessed, dude.
Guy #1: Don't hate on the Diesel. Ooh, you know who everyone loves? That Anne Frank.
Woman: Anne Frank was a lesbo.

--The Strand

Girl: Say, for instance, if somebody killed your mother and you killed theirs to get back at him--
Guy: Don't even suggest such a thing! You're talking to fucking Oedipus here.

--Fordham University, Rose Hill

Man #1: Honey, we don't have to see Memoirs of a Geisha. You lived it, didn't you?
Woman: You just know the right things to say!
Man #2: Some people make me wish that snow outside was really acid.

--Loews 42nd Street

Woman: Yo, my cousin is going to be on American Idol.
Guy: Wow, she any good?
Woman: No, she's terrible, she sounds like a dying seal.

--36th & 7th

Chick: I wish it would snow so I could make a Kate Moss joke.

--F train