The first lines hooked me. “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.” ~Vladimir Nabokov I’ll admit, that’s the sole reason I wanted to read …
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Burger Franchise
If I had a spatula for every time someone said, “Asking for a friend,” I could create a burger franchise across the galaxy. And if I had a pound of ketchup for every toadeater who thought they were being funny because it’s not really for a friend but for them, I could stock all the …
Great Guitars in the Sky
You know, I’m sad that Dick Dale died. No surf song playlist is complete without his “Misirlou”. He’s one of the great innovators, no doubt about it. But you know what I love? There are so many great living artists out there right now. There will be other artists who die. We all seem to …
Patience and Regrets
“I won’t wait ’til tomorrow.” Is there anything wrong with this policy of life? Oh right. There’s the problem of being unprepared. Add to that the problem of being naive. And then there’s the problem of timing. Each of these can be compounding problems. If you’re unprepared, it means you don’t have the necessary tools …
Decorating Reason
“Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.” ~Isaac Asimov Warpgender cisspecies. Cisgender warpspecies. Latentgender crackpipespecies. Absentgender fungalspecies. Such mindless philosophies. The word cisgender makes sense to me, with its meaning of “you are what you are”, but the alternatives people want …
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