dennis scharnberg

rational economic agent

207.  Alert to singer/songwriters:  There is a difference between haunting and annoying.

Trevor Martens,  A Great Many Gratuitous Remarks.

the pygmy pony

Certainly, artists, there could be nothing conformist about your modernism.  Ditto for shallow, for academic, for fallacious, for insincere, for monotonous,….

Nelson Poindexter,  Corpuscular Aesthetics.

slow as butter

Friendly:  I hope that you are enjoying your afternoon, and I hope that there are many more to come.  Unfriendly:  I have no wish to engage with your hideous gases.

Delbert Arbogast, The Null Hypothesis and Other Stories.

the shining girl

Regardless of where one goes on the internet, one finds oneself  draped in advertising.  (What is the internet, actually?  Who is asking this today?)

Roger Hedgecook, Stolen and Sold for Parts.

yak yak yak

“Where is the world?  Right now!  Where?”  It is in the palm of your hand.  Just look down a little, and to the left a little.

Roger Hedgecook, Stolen and Sold for Parts.

in its entirety

Just because one is a revolutionary does not mean that one is revolting.  At least not necessarily.

Theodore Gaddis,  Permanent Upheaval.

buckle my shoe

When asked to characterize the internet with a single word,  Guy Nearing said this:  “inescapable.”

Jackson Currothers III,  The View From the Cauldron.

error on page

What does he detest?  (1) Art galleries and (2) contemporary art.  And (3) contemporary artists, of course.  Oh, yes, and (4) himself for being one.

Aleister Wainwright,  Odd Droppings.

lovely window treatment

You must change your routines.  Of course, this entails two distinct perplexities:  (1) discovering your routines and then (2) resisting the urge to become fascinated by them.

Max Podbellion,  The Polymer Way.

persistent vegetative state

  …but when will people say how embarrassed they are by the internet?

Roger Hedgecook, Stolen and Sold for Parts.