Top ten Dwight Hobbes quotes
November 03, 2008
by Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet • 11/3/08 • I enjoy reading the work of all our writers, but no one is as consistently quotable as the pithy and prolific Dwight Hobbes. Here's a collection of my favorite quotes from Dwight's articles this year.
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“With a name like Sexual Chocolate and the White Boys, you better bring the goods.” -"Andrea Bennett of Sexual Chocolate and the White Boys" “For hip-hop you don’t have to worry about your teenage daughter or son enjoying (a tall order these days, what with women and girls constantly being mistaken for female dogs and gardening implements), you can’t go wrong with Indigo.” -"MC Indigo" “I was sent a Sam Kuusisto demo some time ago and my eyebrows almost flew off my forehead.” -"Sam 'the Man' Kuusisto" “Every spring and summer, you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting somebody or other’s blues festival.” -"Famous Dave brings the blues downtown" “It’s all done with warmhearted wit, even when he’s skewering politicians, lawyers, and other scalawags who should be shot with shit and put in jail for stinking.” -"Transfixing poet Andrei Codrescu" “The Jungle Theater is the Twin Cities’ lone professional, Off-Broadway-caliber venue devoted to white theater. The company produces white playwrights, works with white directors, and, with rare exceptions, employs white actors. Which is fair...after all, white is a color too, and Caucasian folks are entitled to have an intimate, quality house in which to see their culture and sensibilities reflected.” -"A tedious Life in the Theatre" “An obnoxious tendency among jazz cats of even the finest caliber is to overblow—as in look-how-great-I-can-play—stretching solos beyond the realm of reason into such determined self-adulation as to make plain old narcissism look like modesty.” -"Supreme Privacy reign at Café Loto" “You don’t have to flag the bartender down and remind him or her you ordered a drink so long ago you’ve already sobered up. Nor do they saunter over with a kiss-my-grits disposition like they’re doing you a favor to let you spend your bread.” -"A night with Alicia Wiley at the 331" “Drummer Jeremy Krueth smokes the backbeat like your mom’s home-cooked breakfast, so good and hot you can’t hardly believe it.” -"For the love of Sunshine Behavior" But this one goes in a class by itself. Here's how it initially appeared, after I made what I thought was a helpful edit to a confusing sentence. “My first visit to e. p. atelier (you pronounce it like Maurice Chevalier) was truly an odd experience. I was in the course of interviewing Stan Kipper of New Primitives, who subjected me to a good-natured assault as he got so gleefully caught up in the conversation that he actually pummeled and kicked me to accentuate whatever point he was making at a given moment. I survived the beating, moved a sensible distance away from Kipper, and sat with Kipper and owner-proprietor Diane Ingram, drinking iced tea with sugar and honey and taking in what an exceptional place it was.” An e-mail from Dwight alerted me to the fact that there is a certain acronymic expression I had been unacquainted with; thus educated, I reinstated the phrase as Dwight originally wrote it. “My first visit to e. p. atelier (you pronounce it like Maurice Chevalier) was truly an odd experience. I was in the course of interviewing Stan Kipper of New Primitives, who subjected me to a good-natured assault as he got so gleefully caught up in the conversation that he actually pummeled and kicked me to accentuate whatever point he was making at a given moment. I survived the beating, moved a sensible distance away from Kipper, and sat with Kipper and owner-proprietor Diane Ingram, shooting the sugar honey iced tea and taking in what an exceptional place it was.” -"Drinking iced tea and getting beat up at e.p. atelier"
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