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Words I Like
"This is the area where
I make my candles."—Jarrod, Eagle vs. Shark
The way you drop is like a stone
Making out you're flying
But you've just been thrown.—The Jesus and Mary Chain, "Drop"
There was a book in the library about Holland. There were lovely foreign names in it and pictures of strangelooking cities and ships. It made you feel so happy.
—James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
In fact, while we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices, we watch the Battle of Borodino with them, we may even become Napoleon. Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
Is it any wonder that no truly respectable society has ever trusted its artists?
—Ursula K. Le Guin,
Introduction,
The Left Hand of Darkness"What are my dreams?"
—Jerri Blank
Being a famous artist in the Culture meant at best it was accepted you must possess a certain gritty determination . . . .
—Iain M. Banks,
Excession"I hope you will consider what I arrange, but be skeptical of it."
—John Berger,
Ways of SeeingSome sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.
—Andrei Tarkovsky
Category Archives: nonsense
Sketchbook: Rocket Dog
Mole Folk: Underground Dystopia of the Future
The Top 10 Big Movies I’m Looking Forward to this Summer
10. Fish Mouth A gritty reboot of When Harry Met Sally, with Rooney Mara as Sally, Christian Bale as Harry, Channing Tatum as Bruno Kirby, and Charlotte Gainsbourg as Carrie Fisher. 9. Narcoleptic, Parts 1 and 2 The uneventful journey … Continue reading
10 Completely True Shocking Facts About ‘Star Wars’ That You Probably Didn’t Know Before the Internet
10. The famous friendship between Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart started when they crossed paths during the casting process for the voice of R2-D2, a role that eventually went to Zero Mostel. 9. The very first draft of the basic … Continue reading
“Some actually marvelous function . . .”
The headline was the actual true beginning of today’s spam comment, which came courtesy of Zemcron78349MVh, who hails (I imagine) from a lovely little Quonset hut on the edge of the Taklamakan. The spam included a friendly invitation to invest … Continue reading
Fake Book Project: ‘A Brief History of Perelorn’
Clearly, this is hard to read. Click on the image to open a PDF version. A page from The Story of Oxford, by S.P.B. Mais, 1951 A long time ago, I had to do a quick metal typesetting thing for … Continue reading
Newer Job Ad
Domestic Surveillance Associate Federal [REDACTED] for Strategic [REDACTED], [REDACTED], Virginia These days, it seems like everybody’s spying on everybody else! Google does it, Facebook does it, even poor old Yahoo! still manages to do it, somehow! And you better believe … Continue reading
New Job Ads
Junior Graphic Artist National DynaNozzle, Trout Mountain, GA Do you like to draw? Do you like secrets? Would you like to draw pictures of top secret types of missiles and jet planes? Would you like to work in a cubicle … Continue reading
Super Messy New Art Made From Really Messy Old Art
For a thing I’m supposed to be working on and in fact actually am working on, except not right now, because of needing some catch-up sleep and also various other reasons. But, anyway, I’ll be working on it again very, … Continue reading
Pen Pal
This important message arrived in my mailbox yesterday: Your Diplomat Has Now Arrive! And, well, at first I thought it was fake, but then I actually read the email and the guy ended up sounding pretty legit. Apparently, they had … Continue reading
Genius Spam
I think my so-called blog has now become a thing sort of like a laundry lint trap, because the only comments it gets anymore are just billions of spam comments. Although they’re pretty entertaining comments, even if they’re generated by … Continue reading
Pimento
Ah, Spring Break at last! Now I can resume work on my novel Pimento, a vast historical saga about seventeen generations of the Scovilles, a family of pepper magnates in the Central American “Pepper Republic” of Costa Mala. I’m working … Continue reading
Brand New Hero
Idea for a new superhero: Good-Looking Corpse, a re-animated showbiz legend of some kind with surprisingly nice zombie skin and fancy scrimshaw dentures, wears a rhinestone tuxedo to hide his rhinestone superhero suit, fights crime with witticisms and drum solos … Continue reading