dennis scharnberg

head to toe

Do have beliefs.  It is so much better than nihilism.

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

bowl shank stem

“Oh!  I don’t want to think about Kevin right now!  Not now.  Not ever.”  Donna sought refuge in her daily trigonometry lesson.

Anselm Bligh, A Collection of Miniatures.

evil oval eyeful

270.  The only thing alarms are good for is annoying people.

Trevor Martens,  A Great Many Gratuitous Remarks.

hill and dale

121.  It sometimes serves one well to make a thorough list of things one cannot bear.  Leave nothing off.

Trevor Martens,  A Great Many Gratuitous Remarks.

the ethical jellyfish

The Marxists never—never—change their stripes.  They just find a different way to lie.

Morton Kinsella,  Avatars of the Golden Hare.

pocketful of rye

“Henceforth, I shall forgo use of the following words:  portal, cursor, widget, menu, gravitar, google, attachment, dropdown, hashtag, autofill,….”  In diary entries, Lawrence sometimes implies that the Internet is an annoying imposition.

Anselm Bligh, A Collection of Miniatures.

expensively educated offspring

  We have essentially provided everyone with a pocket-sized digital camera.  Photographs in the tens of billions.  The cold, hideous death of the image.  Unbearable.

Thomas Dendritikos,  Making Decisions.

hormonally driven spasms

 

“The Marxist utopian perfection on this Earth?” asked Evans.  “If it ever were produced, it would be simply awful.  Inescapable awfulness.”

Burdyce Goode, Wonderful With Dogs.

and so forth

18.  Thermodynamics will never let you down.

Trevor Martens,  A Great Many Gratuitous Remarks.

smooth and creamy

“I did it!  I did it!”  whispered Janet, dramatically.  “Well, was it as sticky and nasty as they say?”  wondered Allen, almost aloud.

Tristan Holyoke, A Tree Full of Monkeys.