“Thursday is practically Friday and Friday is Friday.”

—  Malcolm Azania, book The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad

Source: The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad (2004), Chapter 1 “I Wash Dishes for Scumbags” (p. 8)

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