dennis scharnberg

Hell:   Google, Yahoo, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, ….

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

“We Are Happy Loved by the Leader.”  “My Country Is a People’s Paradise.”  “Following the Leader and the Party Forever.”   As she pronounced the words, Edna felt a bit dazzled.  And she wondered about her chances of ever attending a North Korean opera.

Jason Starling, ed., Adventures in Narrative Parsimony.

It will not have been the first time in history that something was too good for the status it found for itself.

Lawrence Rittle,  The Fundamentals of Confusion.

231.  It might be pleasant—don’t you think?—if something, if anything, could be simply true and not merely relative.

Trevor Martens,  A Great Many Gratuitous Remarks.

Modernist Art:  proof of the persistence of the myth of Creativity.

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

A Spector is haunting Europe.

Alwyn Westhocker, The Story of Rock.

Modernism is not moribund, but dead.  Does that mean that the making of images will now come to an end?  No.  Images will be made.  More and more.  But, increasingly, these images will be rotten.

Sebastian Winthur,  Hypertrophy and Decline in the Visual Arts.

The danger signal for any society:  when that society becomes difficult to parody.

Jackson Currothers III,  The View From the Cauldron.

Smother Goose

Beards of a father

Livid in a shoe

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

81.  The notion that the people are willing and able to govern themselves is the greatest scam in history.

Trevor Martens,  A Great Many Gratuitous Remarks.