dennis scharnberg

moderate occasionally poor

The face that lunched a thousand chips.

Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

funding for arts

“It is not about being clever, Alice. It’s about escaping cleverness.”

Silas Wegg, School of Dust.

the ukulele blues

maw and paw

Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

barnacles and mollusks

Good is actually not quite good.

Anthony Scowling, The Beat Paradigm.

non-Newtonian pseudoplastic fluid

…either way, reading is now primarily about the commentary of the reader.

Winslow Steele, The Anatomy of Stasis.

an endless present

Success leads us to failure.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

he now knew

Any image will do. Just be sure to use the right words.

Lance Brookland, Walking the Plank.

taking the ticket

The World Wide Web is a handful of beads.

Roger Hedgecook, Stolen and Sold for Parts.

clap your hands

The manifest also mentioned this odd bit of cargo—nine large casks of broken statues.

Talbot Smalls, Barnacle Bill in Macao.

paid to smile

Mr. Gandolf sought answers to all the old metaphysical mysteries by looking into the fleeting images of The Black Coin and Daredevils of the Red Circle.

Roone Giddings, An Arrangement of Particles.