Ray Bradbury

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

-- Ray Bradbury

the laptop

Well, that was scary. I thought we lost the laptop. It seemed to be permanently stuck in the middle of downloading those automatic updates from Windows.

"You have been saying that you would like to be free of the Internet..."

Heh, yeah, but I should never be taken so literally. I tend to speak theoretically.

"You mean you're a bullshitter?"

I prefer 'theoretical'.

"To-may-to, to-mah-to."

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Female Self-Defense

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Netflix's "House of Cards"

WTF, Netflix is producing its own shows and only for their website, and they are better than HBO and Showtime, with a star like Keven Spacey?? WTF, WTF!!!

Palestinians and Israelis

"More Palestinians were killed in Gaza yesterday than Israelis have been killed by projectile fire from Gaza in the past three years."

-- Yousef Munayyer

Yeah, but they always leave out the fact that the low body-count of Israelis is not due to lack of effort. If they were more competent, they would be killing hundreds of Jews with every rocket. If they could, they might well eliminate all the Jews. The real interesting card in play is this: how long will it be before they do acquire such holocaustic capability?

Philip Roth

“I don’t want to read fiction, I don’t want to write it, and I don’t even want to talk about it anymore. I dedicated my life to the novel. At the exclusion of nearly everything else. It’s enough!”

-- Philip Roth

A recent splash in the literary world was the big announcement by Mr. Roth that he is retiring. I have to confess that I have not read anything by the man, but I will use this news as a spur to put "Portnoy's Complaint" on my 'wanna read' list. I've long been curious about it but never got around to it.

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Marilyn

Was Marilyns mole real?

Yes, Marilyn’s mole was real. However, it was more like a skin colored bump which she filled in with an eyeliner pencil to make it appear darker.

-- EternalMarilynMonroe Tumblr




Marilyn Monroe with Sir Laurence Olivier and Arthur Miller shortly after arriving in England to film The Prince and the Showgirl, 1956.

not having any fun with Rabbit Angstrom

"Why such a sour face?"

I'm not having any fun with Rabbit Angstrom, and I have more than one-thousant-four-hundred pages to go.

"Bwahahaha! Does this mean you will be taking another trip to the Kindle Store?"

No, I don't think so. I don't have that kind of money. I could afford it, but I am running pretty thin cash-wise. I'm going to try to stick it out. Oh, hell, I don't know. Life is short. Why hold back on the fun? In any case, I think the lesson has been brought home: stick to the trash-fiction for the nightime reading. Indeed, I probably shouldn't even stray far from the pornish sort of trash-fiction.

"That is hopeless!"

I need it a little dirty. Maybe it helps to make up for the sexlessness of my life.

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"Monk... Monk... Monk!"

Yes, my dandelion?

"What did you get?"

What do you mean?

"You know damn well what I mean. You got that glowing, smiley, I-just-bought-a-new-book look. What did you get?"

I got "The Girl Next Door".

"The girl next door?"

Jack Ketchum.

"Oh, my god! You got torture porn."

Torture porn of a fourteen-year-old girl. I think I'm really going to enjoy this one. It should be a little more stimulative than Rabbit Angstrom.

"You should be shot and put out of your misery."

You may be right about that. What can I say? I don't think Stephen King's "It" or "The Shining" is going to hit the spot. Nor any detective fiction.

"You need it dirty. No, you need it absolutely, disgustingly filthy, that's what you need."

You know you cannot wait to see what the hot parts are going to be like.

"Not to masturbate and get off on it! I am just interested in seeing how sickeningly depraved the male mind can be."

Well, we all have our thing, I guess.