Woody Allen has called some of these pieces “quite funny”.
“As I walked to the bus stop one morning last May
at the loveliest hour of a perfect spring day
I was bursting with joy, so I followed my feet
and I took a long shortcut past Mulberry Street…”
It has been said that a book represents the efforts of not just its author, but of all who have supported that author during the mysterious process of creativity.
The First Annual Cigar Dream Journal Contest has exceeded our wildest expectations. Although our proposal to sponsor a contest of dream journal entries featuring cigars was initially greeted with derision (and then, later, with scorn) we were confident of success from the outset.
In my meeting with Saddam, I crossed my legs and made a mistake, showing him the sole of my shoe, which is an insult to an Arab. It was expected, according to my translator, that I apologize, but I decided not to. I kept to my talking points, and I think he respected that. I saw the glint of a smile when I didn’t grovel.
It’s a sad but well-documented fact that biblical literacy is plummeting. But perhaps the most disturbing factor of this decline is the increasing tendency of so-called Gen-Xers, Slackers, Busters, and young Boomers to confuse trivial popcultural information
An original Michaelangelo drawing, estimated at between $10 and $12 million dollars, was recently discovered in an old box of illustrations of lighting fixtures at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.
10. When you overhear someone saying that you look middle-aged, you take it as a compliment.
9. You refer …Read More
The following is a transcript of yesterday’s fractious debate in California among some of the candidates hoping to replace Governor Gray Davis, who is being recalled. On the dais were Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arianna Huffington, Gary Coleman, and Larry Flynt. It begins after they have each been asked to make opening comments…
Dear Classmates. I am so sorry I couldn’t be with you this evening for this important reunion! I’ll never forget all our good times together! Anyway, I thought I owed you all an explanation for my absence, and perhaps one of you will read this letter to the Class for me.
A Jan. 17 Op-Ed article about Mark Twain misattributed a phrase about poetic language as the “precision that creates movement.” …Read More
