Thank you Rob @ The Hammock Papers (via Treadwells Bookshop)
Saturday Morning
June 25, 2022 by 14 Comments
Increasing awfulness from rock-bottom bad
December 11, 2018 by 6 Comments
I’d brought my computer, but maybe I could actually just not turn it on, and the dreary growth of little obligations that overran my screen would just disappear; maybe the news, which—like a magic substance in a fairy tale—was producing perpetually increasing awfulness from rock-bottom bad, would just disappear.
~ Deborah Eisenberg, Your Duck is My Duck: Stories (Ecco, September 25, 2018)
Notes:
- Photo from (and Don’t miss Article): Deborah Eisenberg, Chronicler of American Insanity (NY Times, September 27, 2018)
- Deborah Eisenberg’s book Your Duck is My Duck: Stories was selected as one of Dwight Garner’s top books of 2018 in Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018
Tuesday Morning Wake-Up Call
September 3, 2018 by 28 Comments
“People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you never see the headlines say, ‘Six billion people got along rather well today.’ You’ll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.”
~ John Malkovich
John Gavin Malkovich, 59, was born in Christopher, Illinois. His paternal grandparents were Croatian. He is an American actor, producer, director, and fashion designer. Over the last 30 years of his career, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures. For his roles in Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire, he received Academy Award nominations. He has also appeared in critically acclaimed films such as Empire of the Sun, The Killing Fields, Dangerous Liaisons, Of Mice and Men, Being John Malkovich, and RED, and has produced numerous films, including Juno and The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Image Source: m.antena.ro portrait of John Malkovich
Walking Cross-Town. Just make it stop.
June 1, 2017 by 57 Comments
Commotion.
Upstairs.
Comey. Russia. Fake News. Senate investigations. ObamaCare. Republicans, Democrats (Rodney: Can’t we just get along?) Hearings. More Hearings. More hearings. Trump. Leaks. Lies. Spin. Frenzy. Russians. Spies. Kushner. Back channels. Flynn. Covfefe. NATO. Kabul suicide blast, 90 dead, 400 wounded, Afghan capital mourns, anger swirls. Hate. Portland Train stabbings. Climate change. North Korea. Saber rattling. Cruise Missiles. Guns. Missouri man kills 8, suicide by cop was his intention. Manchester. Hillary, blame. Tiger Woods DUI. Kathy Griffin fake Trump severed head (Funny, really?). Extra policing in Chicago on Memorial Day, violence down, 6 killed, 44 wounded. Ohio sues Opioid drugmakers for unleashing drug epidemic. Yellowstone, rare white female wolf shot illegally. Ivory, elephant poachers run rampant. (Will Man purge them all?)
Is there no place, where I can sit undisturbed?
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