Pennsylvania B & B
"There are five individually decorated guest rooms, two with a fireplace and three with a bath. The North Room features a hooped canopied bed and an assortment of antique pieces, including a washstand, a rocker, a table with lamp, and a ladderback chair;...
What is stability?
"I venture to say that most people most of the time experience the same four-o'clock-in-the-afternoon devaluation. But I have noticed an interesting thing. If such a person, a person like me feeling lapsed at four o'clock in the afternoon, should begin reading...
Cocktails
ANGER + DISGUST = outrage ANGER + SADNESS = betrayal ANGER + FEAR = caged animal DISGUST + FEAR = horror SADNESS + SURPRISE = disappointment emotional mixtures for drawing facial expressions formulated by Scott McCloud in Making Comics Here's what I...
fictitious events
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pinky and leather
"Wonder who first slid in to use another creature's skin for staying warm—" Carter Revard, from "Skins as Old Testament" ...
my christian mortgage
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worry lines
--loss of strength and muscle weakness all over the body --double vision --blurred vision and drooping eyelids --hoarseness or loss of voice --trouble saying words clearly --loss of bladder control --trouble breathing --trouble swallowing --Botox, possible side...
rooves without houses
"They passed a dead man in a sitting position on a hummock, entirely surrounded by wild animals and snakes. Common danger made common friends. Nothing sought a conquest over the other." --Zora Neale Hurston, from Their Eyes Were Watching God A guy and a...
a problem like maria
The Agents of Outrage: An embassy attacked. Diplomats murdered. The new calculus of violence against America. Brooklyn is Finished: Or has it only just begun? You call this an election? Could China and Japan go to war over these? The Adventures of Genius: True...
true tales of the almost self
"I have suggested my father killed himself, but it's just as accurate to say that he died gardening." --Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Bechdel’s father was gay at the...
legal matters
"Too much agreement kills a chat." --Eldridge Cleaver I shouldn't be quoting Eldridge Cleaver on Itchy Banquet for lots of reasons. For example, I am white and...
the guilt of the living
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different planets
Vesta Relates to Virgo and Scorpio Keywords: pure, devoted, dedicated, committed, moral, dutiful, responsible, traditional, conservative, hard working, perfect, sacrifice, discipleship, service, simplicity, integrity, focused, centered, whole-in-oneself, intact,...
a square is a rectangle
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take a number
Average people: they tell each other in precise detail what was on their boarding house menu. --Robert Musil, Don’t...
know / not know
"If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment. . . If a man says (for instance) that men have a conspiracy...
truancy
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shopped and had pizza and saw a show
"Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up?" --William Faulkner, Nobel Prize Acceptance...