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Rants

I don't have an opinion about everything yet. Give me time.

Fantasy of Arrogance, Delusion of Pretense

It takes 10 years to become an overnight success. Billy Joel has, what, 9 years and 11 months to go?

Potter Maniacal

Mimi Swartz says that irony "isn't exactly larded into the Potter books." Holy Scabbers, what version of the books did she read?

Predicting One's Own Obsolescence

Anyone who has even heard of Marshall McLuhan is an over-educated, liberal, atheist, elitist snob who utterly fails to understand that late twentieth century America is the epitome, the essence, the pinnacle, the very definition of civilization.
A B Seizure
Robert Fulghum was right. Everything I need to know, I learned in kindergarten.
A Social Deconstruction
It was for a game aimed at preteen girls called "Sealed With A Kiss".
Unattended Children
I just love it when this three-year-old child materializes a few feet from me, realizes that Mommmmmeeeeee didn't materialize there with him, and starts screaming like a homing beacon on an emergency broadcast frequency.
Sympathy

If I were hungry, you would not give me sympathy. Sympathy would not nourish me. Instead, you would give me food. But in the long run, I must learn to feed myself.

Rants Against the Gods Themselves
A couple--of acquaintance only through the net--had the great good fortune to become pregnant, followed almost immediately by the great misfortune of a spontaneous miscarriage.

The Despicable Art of Flaming

What does it mean when you write a flame, and your flame gets fan mail?
People Who Prey on Support Groups
Blow this project out your ass, will you??
Antirant

cherry blossoms fall
seen, unseen, mourned or ignored
natural causes

Angry Candy
"Bittersweet Symphony." This kind of thing makes me cringe (first) and reach for the lead pipe (second). They bloody well ought to be calling this the "Saccharine Symphony."
Doom

Doom is chic only when it is continuous, when it goose-steps swaggeringly at your side, with a non-stop howl of glee.


Yes--it's the hangman and the gibbet
That sets the poet's earthly scene;
We keep our hairshirts on exhibit
We walk with tapers, and we keen

--Anna Akhmatova 


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