This line from Anna's LJ entry on November 3rd sums it up pretty well: i am so sad. the only comparable feeling is that of asking someone out when you feel certain they'd say yes and having them give you a cruel, flat-out no.

Or how about JK's: During the summer, I started proclaiming the inevitability of a Bush victory. I didn’t do this because I ( Read more... )

From Mayakovsky's replies to his audiences' questions, written and asked, as noted down by various authors (in Wiktor Woroszylski's biography MayakovskyQ. Mayakovsky, what is your real name ( Read more... )

this morning I woke up around nine to give the whiny dog a walk. we stroll around the back in the dew, and then I decide to go around to the front to pick up the paper.

it was then that I saw, on the front porch, ( the visitor )