"No matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up.” — Lily Tomlin
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker The Color Purple is a story told in short letters. Letters, at first, from a barely-literate Celie to God, letters that are little more than raw observations of a brutal, degraded, hopeless life. Letters, later, from Celie’s sister Nettie, reminding Celie of their shared history, relating the progress of […]
“I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!” — Margaret Hamilton (as the Wicked Witch of the West), The Wizard of Oz (1939) Sunshine Cleaning (2008) I have a hard time understanding why some reviewers put this one down. True, it comes out of the same box as Little Miss Sunshine and other […]
I have no idea who put together the original meme, but I am in his or her debt.
Apologies & credit to Rube Goldberg, who drew the original cartoon.
If we had some chips We could have some beer and chips If we had some beer
Get it write, you slob’s! Most hashers are happy to help when trails need to be laid, beer hauled, or goodie bags stuffed. But when the trash needs to be written, it’s like, “Hey, where’d everybody go?” That’s because most of us are self-conscious about our writing. We worry about spelling, grammar, putting our thoughts […]
10. Have a comical real name, like “Jemimah” or “Percival.” 9. Tell another hasher, in strictest confidence, about the time you got head lice. 8. Sport an embarrassing physical characteristic, like a large and ugly birthmark. 7. If female, suffer from inadvertent queefing. If male, drool. 6. Tell everyone you’re a “player.” 5. Make yourself […]
I wake up as the plane touches down at San Francisco International. It’s after midnight. I feel like someone stuffed used pantyhose in my mouth. As I grab my bag from the overhead bin the stew looks at me knowingly. Her legs are bare. Some wakeup calls are worse than others. I’m used to it. […]