Do not save me, condemn my sufferings eternal ( Read more... )

A crowded bar. Over-decibelled music I cannot abide. Deaf bartenders. A legion of young girls fancying themselves photomodels, swaying earnestly to please. I am one of a multitude lost-looking barflies perching on leather stools, absent-mindedly flipping pages of a glossy, cursing silently at my ineptitude for post-modern life. Somewhere lost ( Read more... )

" I am what I am such that he may remain what he is" -- such is the excuse of an oft-tormented man. SP subscribes to some unfashionably Old World ideals. He read an article about Washington and exclaimed that he too, must strive to become a certain sort of public man. He saw a profile of movie actors and agreed that personae should be the only ( Read more... )

Being a man of unquestionable conduct in certain aspects, it is often amusing if not farcial to be the subject of slander. As Tarkington aptly suggested: rumours are never assumed true until they are hotly denied. Keeping one's silence akins to swollowing up hearty portions of a private joke -- difficult to maintain a serious composure or ( Read more... )