Calvin and Hobbes

John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes

from Space Coyote

The Horror

Voted the worst cover of all time by Total Guitar: Celine Dion does AC/DC.

No lie. Seriously.

Appropriately crap copy.

Just press play, baby.

Mime No More

No, it isn't a spray for those odd areas in the city proper or something that you wish would happen after ingesting odd mushrooms.

It is a new law in China.

Hi.

How have you been?

Damned long week.

 

Rules for those Who Follow rUles

“Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.”
― Dalai Lama XIV


Rules for playing bocce.


“...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby  


Rules for using commas.

“Nature provides exceptions to every rule.”
― Margaret Fuller

Rules for visiting the Vatican.

"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy."

―Joseph Campbell

And for good reason.

Link Debris and a Monkey

Fan of "Dexter" tries to be Dexter.

Octopi have an adorable Antarctic link.

French Grape Stompers Die of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning.

Jesus Continuing Toast Tour.

Even the Fixx Despise the "Saved By Zero" Toyota Ad.

Albert Einstein's Complete FBI File.

Once Again, Celebrating the American Mullet

Women Just Love Carcinogens

Hiya!

A level of insanity this week as the election (may I recommend this photolog of Obama throughout his campaign - just fantastic) and Murder and Mayhem in Muskego begins tomorrow.

My next anthology, UNCAGED, is heading down the editing pike to be born until the world next July. This means massive work now and my brain is more than a little sieve-like. 

I saw many people at Bouchercon and told them, "remind me later." Feel free to do so. I am quite interested to know where my mind was at over those frantic days.

So, hi! How are you? Let's go for a spa day together and just dish on the last few months....

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The Electoral College

How it works.

What it's doing tonight.

"Writing is the most personal form of prayer."

"If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read? So that it shall make us happy? Good God, we should also be happy if we had no books, and such books as make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. But what we must have are those books which come upon us like ill fortune, and distress us deeply, like the death of one we love better than ourselves; like suicide. A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us."
- Franz Kafka

Here, Bookslut writes of a favorite book of mine, R.CRUMB'S KAFKA

My poet name is:

Gwendolyn Pifflespout.

Spezzatura (n.)

Meaning; short: rehearsed spontaneity, studied nonchalance

Meaning; exhaustive: a term that originates from Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier. It is defined as “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it.”

That is to say, it is the ability of the courtier to display “an easy facility in accomplishing difficult actions which hides the conscious effort that went into them.”

Sprezzatura has also been described “as a form of defensive irony: the ability to disguise what one really desires, feels, thinks, and means or intends behind a mask of apparent reticence and nonchalance.

Example: the photo to the above, right and almost all of fashion. And people breaking up by text or email. And apples.

Best usage in explosively fast online search: Ed Rants

How Dare You Sir!

From Deus Ex Malcontent 

Monday? Again?

from Nothing to with Arborath

Just Beat It Mullet

How Wings are Attached to the Backs of Angels

I Want to Love You Tender