Tag: humor
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Assorted Thoughts • from 54 poems at 27
Nested bowls work if you stack carefully. If not, they lean. Contractors in 1173 were likely rushed through a soup luncheon in that Pisa basement. My friend has an acrylic sweater that changes color and shape every day, namely because every morning he chooses a different brush and palate to paint it on. I once encountered…
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Guest Post: “Cheese” by G.K. Chesterton
Today I’m happy to welcome G.K. Chesterton to speak to us on Cheese. Take it away, G.K.! Cheers, Lancelot. My forthcoming work in five volumes, The Neglect of Cheese in European Literature,’ is a work of such unprecedented and laborious detail that it is doubtful whether I shall live to finish it. Some overflowings from…
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Oh My God
Since this is a platform first for my business, I try to keep spiritual/political/inflammatory things from here. I typically fail in an epic sort of way. However, as many of you saw on the sociable networkings this week, I — a soon to be twenty-five-year-old man — came down with THE SHINGLES. I capitalize it…
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Safari in Words and Pictures
Think of this like the theatre: if you have a cell phone, turn it off. But if you have a pacemaker, KEEP THAT SUCKER ON! Here we go…. Amy and Eric Malone, our friends, had a baby shower down in Arkansas this weekend. Whether the state in question is pronounced Ar-kin-saw or Ar-can-sis, I’ll leave to…
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Sitting at the Feet of a Film Analyst (part 2)
When we last left our unlikely heroes, they dealt with the questions of the maturity of film as a medium, art verses advertisement and the realist movement in film. They also made fun of Superman, comparing him to a homesick little boy at summer camp, but that’s neither here nor there… Lance Schaubert: That’s where…