Don't be scared. I've done this before.

I give you the watchword for the future: Enjoy Yourselves.

Mr. Antrobus

What a stroke of luck.

“I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.”

György Ligeti

“It’s kickass or kissass, Don, and I’d be lying if I told you any different.”

I do not think that people are basically good at heart; indeed, that view of human nature has both prompted and informed my writing for the last 40 years. I think that people, in circumstances of stress, can behave like swine, and that this, indeed, is not only a fit subject, but the only subject, of drama.

David Mamet

moon-eyed

1699 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc) 21 51 From their seeing so clear as they do in a moon-shiny night, we used to call them moon-eyed

1790 J. WOLCOT Compl. Epist. to Bruce in Wks. (1812) II. 358 Moon-eyed Wonder opes her lap to thee.

1972 G. LUKAS et al. Amer. Graffiti (film script) 72 (stage direct.) Carol watches him, moon-eyed and obviously flipped about him.

1992 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) May 144/3 The apple-cheeked, moon-eyed wife of the governor, staggeringly poised, effortlessly articulate, primly silk-scarved.

1737 Pennsylvania Gaz. 13 Jan. 2/1 He sees two Moons, Merry, Middling, Moon-Ey'd, Muddled, [etc.].

1940 Amer. Speech 15 447/2 Sid gits moon-eyed every Saturday night.

Big Country

existential gunslingers

"I saw that each of my compañeros had likewise assumed a solitary station on the ridge, so that the four of us stood in a row and squinted into the desert like existential gunslingers."

Joseph O'Neill's Netherland, 217

quicker than his own shadow: Lucky Luke

Joseph O'Neill's Netherland

I've done this before.

Now I am quietly waiting for

the catastrophe of my personality

to seem beautiful again



- Frank O’Hara

40 Stories of Sheer Adventure

Hans Gruber: Mr. Mystery Guest? Are you still there?

McClane: Yeah, I'm still here. Unless you wanna open the front door for me.

Hans Gruber: Uh, no I'm afraid not. But you have me at a loss. You know my name but who are you? Just another American who saw too many movies as a child? Another orphan of a bankrupt culture who thinks he's John Wayne?  Rambo?  Marshall Dillon?

McClane: I was always kinda' partial to Roy Rogers actually. I really dig those sequined shirts.

Hans Gruber: Do you really think you have a chance against us, Mister Cowboy?

McClane:Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.

(Nothing Lasts Forever)

Silence is the only voice of our God.

plucky

French, from Italian svelto, from past participle of svellere to pluck out, modification of Latin evellere, from e- + vellere to pluck —

laduma

1605 SHAKES. Lear IV. vi. 228 The bountie, and the benizon of Heauen To boot, and boot.

settle down

"At least everything you got now, you know you got honestly. Wadn't no handouts."
"I guess that was, without me knowin', the good Lord's way of tellin' me I didn't need to work there."

--in line at the Frankfurt airport, US Army backpacks.

only connect

one+one

one+one

one+one

one+one

action/comic

Golden Banner

I'll live forever.

P.S. I'm taking the bags off the market. Because, I'd like to sit on a porch for a while and fill up some of these swiss cheese holes I've got. Gratitude.