dennis scharnberg

buy on spec

18.  Not taking a journalist seriously is abusing the journalist.

Trevor Martens,  A Great Many Gratuitous Remarks.

the little moron

The analogy between writing and defecating has been worked, of course.  But does that mean that it has been overworked?

Tanner Faust,  A Scrapbook of Impertinent Interrogatives.

nothing to do

The easier it is, the worse it is.  Now, what am I referring to here?

Tanner Faust,  A Scrapbook of Impertinent Interrogatives.

quite a few

Life:  a mental illness that is terminal.

W. Karl Bavinger,  The Misanthrope’s Way With Words.

in just ice

This is the only “fun” that I have anymore:  watching the Media professionals construct (and reconstruct) the world for us.

Jackson Currothers III,  The View From the Cauldron.

ill gotten gains

Being afraid is what I do.  And that’s true of everyone.  The pretense to the contrary can be stunning.

Dennis W. Sylvester,  Confessions of a Moon Man.

do your thing

One needs to be proud of something.  Yes.  So, choose something.  And, then, be proud of it.

Nicholas James Barnarby, ed.,  Dr. Sonderborg’s Book of DOs and DON’Ts.

flesh and bones

Ambrose never tired of advocating for his conviction that language should be limited to stating the obvious.

Charles Jeffrey Yett,  Writing in Miniature—Vol. Three.

trout mask original

Women do find the idiot savant to be amazing.  They practically swoon.

Tuc d’Audubert,  Into the Swirling World.

isle of dogs

Postmodernist Foolishness No. 14:  The notion that stability implies or necessitates stasis;  that the absence of stasis is “instability.”

Dennis W. Sylvester,  Confessions of a Moon Man.