moderation
you shouldn’t eat so much of any one thing that if they found out that a really really huge amount of that one thing kills people you’d stop and say: oh jeez
Cecil Vortex
Please don’t visit the “Patrick Swayze/North and South” web page
The “Patrick Swayze/North and South” web page is terrible. There are lots of good web pages out there, covering a wide variety of topics. So there’s really no need for you to visit the “Patrick Swayze/North and South” web page. Here’s just one of the many terrible things about this web page. It says, and … Read more
Pandas!
Am I the only one a bit put off by the panda craze that’s been sweeping the nation, what with everyone and their brother buying panda bears and then bringing them with them *everywhere*? I mean, come on! I’m not saying pandas aren’t cute. I’m just saying, there’s a time and there’s a place. And … Read more
The Don Quixote Deathmarch, Week 7, and this time I mean it
Week 7, in which our weary band of ‘marchers may or may not end up attacking some skins of red wine, and other diverting adventures. I just finished the week’s reading, with about an hour+ to spare (west coast time). And I will admit to much relief that this whole Don Fernando, Luscinda, Camila, Anselmo … Read more
Short lines
At the coffee shop a man long past down on his luck head resting on a piece of paper pen in one hand but no words on the sheet. Just 60 or 70 short lines twitched in all directions. A swarm of “I mean no harm” hand motions for him to sleep inside.
The Don Quixote Deathmarch, 7th week stretch
Week 7, in which I’m quite lame and behind and largely off-web for various and sundry, but hoping to catch up and post the real thread shortly. Feel free to post toward mugnet on this placeholder. When I swap the real post in, the comments will remain…… Update: By popular demand (OK, two people, but … Read more
The Don Quixote Deathmarch, Week 6
And hey Presto: Week 6!, which recounts the pleasing commentary laced upon these light beams by varied marchers and the squires of same. Nearly 300 pages in now. Lots and lots and lots to go, and yet…we’re too far from shore to easily swim back. I’ll confess to finding “the two friends” a tad tedious. … Read more
There’s no use denying it any more
Wallace Shawn is Daffy Duck. (At least In The Princess Bride.) “Inconceivable!” -Cecil
How much?
I wonder how much time EE Cummings spent searching and replacing? Because I spend a lot of time searching and replacing and I wonder if that was a big part of his life too?
The Don Quixote Deathmarch, Week 5
And then before you know it, it’s Week 5, regarding the diverting comments posted by the readers of this agreeable history. Much sound and fury this week regarding potential casting and music for the movie. And out of that dust a clear path emerges: Melody’s vision of a DQ update that we’d have to assume … Read more