My War Against Reality

Not a party animal. More of a woodchuck with large dreams . I suppose you could follow it as it runs across the parkway to early oblivian. Listing new art and loves of my life.

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Zinnias

Zinnia's stiff and stout- For Patti

Wednesday, August 08, 2012

"The wise always use a number of ready-made phrases (at the moment I write 'nobody's business' is the most common), popular adjectives (like 'divine' or 'shy-making'), verbs that you only know the meaning of if you live in the right set (like 'dunch'), which give a homely sparkle to small talk and avoid the necessity of thought. The Americans, who are the most efficient people on earth, have carried this device to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment's reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication."
From "Cakes and Ale" by Somerset Maugham