dennis scharnberg

get free stuff

What happens when scientists become bored with the original purpose(s) of science?

Tanner Faust,  A Scrapbook of Impertinent Interrogatives.

no bugger all

102.  Only lost causes should attract us.

Trevor Martens,  A Great Many Gratuitous Remarks.

leave a smear

Everything in the world has been photographed.  And everybody.

Jackson Currothers III,  The View From the Cauldron.

expressing the self

The thing about a murder mystery—or any other mystery—is that it is something to focus on.

Victoria Salt,  A Compendium of Opening Lines.

know no noh

“That’s just history, so who cares?”  No.  No, it is:  Who cares about now?  About right now?

Tanner Faust,  A Scrapbook of Impertinent Interrogatives.

days gone by

There is precious. And there is pretentious.  And there is a third P.  But I cannot think of what it is.

Jeremy Breedlove,  A Sardonic View of the Movies.

there once was

How many hours a day do you spend before the mirror?  Four?  Eight?  Or only one or two?  Perhaps I ought to define the term “mirror.”

Dennis W. Sylvester,  Confessions of a Moon Man

smothered in gravy

Social Justice:   the biggest racket of the twenty-first century (so far).

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

the pebble falls

Culture:   a product of restraint.

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

ut pictura poesis

What is needed today is the type of person who is capable of overthrowing his own ideas.

Jackson Currothers III,  The View From the Cauldron.