“I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George.”

Of Mice and Men
By John Steinbeck

“I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George.” 

I read this about a month ago for the first time and really liked it. In a way, the classic had always been on my to-read list, but when I saw it had a limited engagement on Broadway starring James Franco and Chris O'Dowd, it encouraged me to read it sooner. I saw it last night with friends and thought it was fantastic. Chris O'Dowd's performance as Lennie blew me away. 

Franco smiles his ungrudgingly adolescent smile, a grin as terminally satisfying as the last healthy squeeze on a tube of toothpaste.

Me and my friend Kathleen laughed to the point of tears and aching stomachs the other day from reading this list of the 25 funniest analogies.

As I read through Esquire's September 2010 issue, I noticed this line from Tom Chiarella's "The Itinerant Artist," a profile on James Franco:

"When asked what he's reading, Franco smiles his ungrudgingly adolescent smile, a grin as terminally satisfying as the last healthy squeeze on a tube of toothpaste." (p. 124).

Wonderful.