dennis scharnberg

Beware of compliments that come flying through the breeze.

Cooper W. Barthelme,  A Systems Approach to Advice.

“It is expressionism, Gerald.  The artist is expressing.”

Oh?  Yes?  Well, what in particular is he “expressing”?

“He is expressing expression.”

Philip Cavendish,  Tilly’s Treasury of Colloquial Bits.

“Of course, I don’t really know.  I mean, after all, I’m just an ordinary person.”  Harold’s humility seemed to emanate from a different era.  From a different place.

Anselm Bligh, A Collection of Miniatures.

Where there is a wool, there is a weigh.

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

57.  If you must apologize, do it always in this fashion:  “I apologize to anyone who could be offended in any conceivable way.”

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

All you need is love insipid pop songs.

Jackson Currothers III,  The View From the Cauldron.

715.  I sometimes feel a bit guilty for bashing rock music—because it is such an easy target.  But then I come to recognize  that the easy target is the only kind that is available today.

Trevor Martens,  A Great Many Gratuitous Remarks.

129.  When you sit down to take your tea, do so without a strategem.

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

When there is no “up” or “down,”  then it is inevitably down that we go.

Davis Hampton,  Designing the Culture.

The products of modernism actually have a brief  life.  Like the caption of a one-frame cartoon.  Who wants to look at a Mondrian, and then look and look and look?  For the nine-hundredth time, modernism is anemia.  A contagious anemia.

Hunter Hogarth,  Raised By Wolves.