December 2008
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next...”
– T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding”
“New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to...”
– Mark Twain a.k.a. Big Papa T in elite literary circles- of which membership is invite only and I am a part of… not you!
“In a few years copies of the first edition will probably be worth £100 each, so...”
– James Joyce- 23 Oct. 1922
That the author was also very conscious about the value of his novel is evidenced by his quote from a letter to his aunt Josephine (Mrs. Murray). When it turned out that the latter did not seem to take much interest in the signed first edition of Ulysses that Joyce had...
A Case In Vexatiousness; An Early Morning Hate.
Do you know what drives me mad?
EARLY BIRDS. Not the birds, to be precise, but the chirping. The early morning chirping instructs me to do things I would otherwise never do. Perhaps it is because I maintain the waking hours of a mortician or Del Taco employee- I sense no difference in the laborious undertakings of either profession nor do I care. Therefore when the sun says hello, flamboyantly...
Christmas Gifts I Recieved From Family Members...
It has become an American tradition to ‘hint’ or, in my sister’s books, simply compose a list of items that you want for Christmas. For example, my sibling asked for a doll house and thus was granted one come Christmas morning. I on the other hand refused to even discuss matters about Christmas outside of what the family plans to celebrate were. This unique silence led to an...
“Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special...”
– Dave Berry
“Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. ...”
– Richard Lamm
“I grow tired. My eyes burn. My concentration is beginning to lose it’s...”
– Luis Silvestre Villa- 2005 Out of the corner of my eye I locate a curious little journal I have not seen in years. Well not since my freshmen year, 1st semester. I was writing during one of the more dull Intro to Chemistry Labs I have since forsook. It was in a box that was unlabeled and contained...
“Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary,...”
– Martin Amis
Just ask Ernest Hemingway. Well, if you could…
“I’m going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network...”
– Will Self
With this economy, perhaps we may all end up burrowing through trash ala Oscar the Grouch. This all sounds deliciously pleasant but let us keep out of the rain. Few things are as rancid as trash and rain, this is fact- I have studied the matter extensively. One of these things was my...
Where Is Your Mother?
I’m moving into a new location. Hence I have no internet and have failed with updates. I will return though, all Great Men always do.
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more…”
– King Richard III- Henry V, Act III, Scene I.
“Absolutely disgusted on opening the Blackfriars Bi-weekly News of to-day, to...”
– George Grossmith from Diary of a Nobody, 1892
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all...”
– Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion