For Malone, that cycle began after he aged out of the foster care system in Illinois, and moved to Baltimore County to live with a relative, according to his younger sister, Adia Love. That relative had difficulty paying the bills and lost their home two months after Malone moved in, she said. For the most part, Malone couch-surfed around Baltimore but sometimes stayed at Loving Arms, a youth emergency shelter. All the while, he attended Baltimore City Community College.Friday, February 15, 2008

I Love the Smell of Burning Ape Guts in the Morning

"A famous linguist once said... that of all the phrases in the English language, of all the endless combinations of words in all of history... that "Cellar Door" is the most beautiful."

This is from a speech given by Drew Barrymore’s character in the film Donnie Darko. The original quote was attributed to the American writer H.L.Mencken, who supposedly claimed a Chinese student particularly liked the phrase. Some people say the student was actually Italian, while others think that the historian Jacques Barzun learnt from one of his own Japanese students.

But at the end of the day, it really doesn’t matter who came up with the claim, because "Cellar Door" is not the most beautiful phrase