It was famously said by a man who had never been there that Hell is other people. Like most epigrams, it’s more clever than it is accurate. Hell is other people, yes; but not many. The energy and logistics involved in getting a dead man’s shade into Hell are so …
While I’ve always been opposed to the death penalty, I cannot say it has always been for lofty moral reasons. I’m certainly not opposed to killing in self-defense, and there are absolutely a lot of people who will leave the world significantly improved once they are rotting away in a …
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COLE: This is fucking boring. MAYHEW: Shut up, Cole, you little bitch. STRAITHAIRN: Man, why you have to be like that? We’re on duty. Show some respect. COLE: I’m serious, you guys, plus my belt is all grungy or something. MAYHEW: It’s nothing personal, Straithairn. COLE: I mean, it’s like, …
When little Charlie was six years old, he broke one of his mother’s favorite bone china plates. Charlie hid the broken plate from his mother, because he knew that she would be very cross. (Charlie’s mother was a brittle, unloving old New Englander with the short temper and cold demeanor …
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This is a ripe one, I think to myself as he crosses the floor. Sixteen if he’s a day and he’s got that topper out of a coal chute. He’s wearing it like it makes him look like a lord. Whatever it takes for the fare, I think, trying not …
“The goal here will be a pincers movement, coming down from the north with the Fifth Army and circling to the rear, and moving up and over from the south by Belgrade with the Ninth, so we’ll eventually encircle the whole territory. Now, if all goes well, we should have …
BILL: Okay, listen to this. BACON: Hit me. BILL: “But soft, what light…” BACON: Wait, what? Butt soft? Who’s he talking about? BILL: Juliet. BACON: He’s talking about how her butt is soft? What kind of shit is that? They’re never gonna let you say that. BILL: No, no, “but soft”. Like, …
Hey there, Nuremburg High class of 1919! Can it really be twenty years since we happy kampfers spent our final years as Fightin’ Teutons? Can it really be two decades since we welcomed home our fathers and older brothers and their remainig limbs from the final war Germany will ever …
Dear Mrs. Oguntade, It was with joy and, I must admit, some degree of surprise that I received your e-mail of the 15th entitled “RE save our soul”. The joy, as you might imagine, stemmed from your generous though slightly bewildering offer to remit to me the kingly sum of USD$111,600,443 …
“Takin’ off the shirt, boss.” “You’re new.” “Yeah, they sent me up today. Christ, it’s hot. I’m really working up a good sweat. How does my hair look?” “Uh…okay, I guess. What are you in for?” “Nothing.” “Huh. Tell me about it. I’m totally fucking innocent, but I had this …
“Hey, Arzbyx, what’s up?” “Please address me as Overlord Arzbyx the Supervisor, flesh thing, or I shall have you reduced to component chemicals and utilized as cleaning solution.” “Hey, lighten up, boss man. It’s Friday afternoon!” “This necrotizer cannon is not going to build itself, Unit 46031-H.” “So, you going to …
“Well, how’d you know it was Him, Jimmy, is my question.” “I just knowed it.” “Now, how’d you ‘just knowed’ somethin’ like that? You don’t ‘just know’ that somebody’s the Lord Jesus Christ returned to Earth.” “Some things you just know, Clint. Like, instinctually.” “What’d He look like?” “About what …
In earlier times, one had an easier conscience about being a person than one does today. People were like cornstalks in a field, probably more violently tossed back and forth by God, hail, fire, pestilence, and war than they are today; but as a whole — as a city, a …
