I no longer plan to write. So, for the time being, I have no further reason to maintain this site. Whatever I once had as a writer appears irretrievably lost. Maybe it was all an illusion. Regardless, everyone I grew up with and everyone I met when I was younger and first considering what it [...]...

  No one will ever talk me out of my love for the Big American triad of Faulkner, Fitzgerald and (yes) Hemingway. By now I've probably heard all the criticisms and they are irrelevant in the face of the work itself. Anyway, anyone who has spent much time with either of the latter two will have [...]...

mmmm, simple and tasty. Just ordered a set– and a few of the others....

[from the New Yorker]...

Remove Garfield from the picture (literally) and you turn a bland comic into one that is strange, delusional, desperate, lonely, and often hilarious. Kudos to Jon Davis, creator of Garfield, for being cool with the idea and saying so. [subconscious linktribution: CogDogBlog]...