dennis scharnberg

all is well

“I put it to you, that television content today is exceedingly dreary.” Edna again. Scripted again.

Adrian Caliban, The Magnificent Egglestons.

bucket with hole

He set for himself the following task: to stop all personal use of the word cool and the expression wow. That is really all you need to know about Mr. Chalmers. That says it all.

Karl Buckling, Time Domain Blues.

up for grabs

“Oh, what a quaint and curious daughter we have yielded to this world!” Edna would sometimes write elaborate scripts for herself, and then, out of the blue, she would spring those words upon her—sometimes startled— friends and acquaintances.

Adrian Caliban, The Magnificent Egglestons.

cart is empty

“What a truly wonderful moment this is!” That was Edna again, reading from her script.

Adrian Caliban, The Magnificent Egglestons.

sgt. fury and

              bunk robbery

       Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

his howling commandos

The term postmodernism is just a tag. It refers to the state of no longer having a culture. In place of culture one now has an imperative: Increase “pleasure” and decrease “pain”. With pleasure and pain being defined in the moment, and by the user.

Cedric Plumm, All Roads Lead.

stones cry out

World Wide Web: a clever way to burn bridges.

Clive Morrow, A Crustacean’s Dictionary.

just destroy it

“I want to be the best criminal I can be.” That’s what Todd told himself every morning. That or something like it. And not every morning, but fairly often.

Adrian Caliban, The Magnificent Egglestons.

in ragged right

Doubt is an old philosophical joke. And the word “reasonable” is promotional language.

Cedric Plumm, All Roads Lead.

looking out window

                Loss.

          Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.