Nothing intimidates quite so much as the blank page. Silence overwhelms in its power, and yet manages to remain, as Bacon put it, the virtue of fools ( Read more... )

There's never enough time in one's day. One must sift through an onslaught of choices, of information. One is faced with the neverending threat of overstimulation. Television exhorts you to buy this, to laugh at this, to believe that. The proverbial strings of the American populace are continually lifted with unbearable facility ( Read more... )

It's been ages, has it not ( Read more... )

It seems I've rather neglected this particular venue of late. I feel an extraordinary sense of regret. In all of the hubbub regarding this fad, this "blogging" thing, no-one bothered to mention the almost overwhelming sense of duty instilled in the dark recesses of one's heart to one's audience ( Read more... )

Heathens. Senseless, absolute savages ( Read more... )

Despite rumours to the contrary, I am most certainly among the living ( Read more... )

I'd always had my suspicions, Gerald, but finally the confirmation:

lordjohnmarbury's LJ stalker is leotmcgarry!leotmcgarry is stalking you because they think you are the one who made anonymous abusive LJ comments. They are also not very liked around here!

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Insomnia's a funny thing. Terribly funny. Like a joke sans punchline.

Rather like life.

As Aught Four indelicately heaved its last overwrought breath and oozed its way into this unfamiliar beast we now face, I "did my thing", as it were, and charmed the trousers off diplomat and dilettante alike ( Read more... )

My, the District of Columbia becomes an utterly different place this time of year. Twinkling lights, garland of every possible color and persuasion...the place is possibly overflowing with cheer. It warms the heart, in a sort of forced Dickensian way ( Read more... )