Why the Internet was invented …….
Annette | April 7, 2009
My friend, who loves this photo, contends that it was the reason for the Internet(s) tubes coming into being.
My friend is a very funny guy ………….
Best closing line in any movie ever….
Annette | January 3, 2009
From “Jagged Edge”, delivered by the inimitable Robert Loggia:
“Fuck him. He was trash.”
Consider these words…………
Annette | November 3, 2008
“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt.
“People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”
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The unfortunate Laura Bush……..
Annette | August 24, 2008
Has there ever been a First Lady so lacking in style, elegance, flair, originality? She’s chronically frumpy, never seeming at ease in her clothes, and really makes Mamie Eisenhower’s bangs look daring.
But, this comment today by a person who’s absolutely nailed it, still has me laughing:
“Apparently Laura is going to make it through eight [...]
Mark David Chapman………..
Annette | August 12, 2008
I am certain there is no single individual as universally loathed by my generation as Mark David Chapman. He killed John Lennon. Yeah, Sirhan Sirhan is up there, as was James Earl Ray, but when I think of who was lost to us, I think first of Lennon.
Today, I read of his most [...]
John Edwards is no Wilt Chamberlain……..
Annette | August 8, 2008
So he boinked a chickie beyond the boundaries of his marriage. That makes him an adulterous pig, assuming, arguendo, that he and his wife, Elizabeth, don’t have what used to be referred to rather euphemistically as an “open marriage.”
Unless his grand total eclipses the claim of Wilt Chamberlain that he slept with more than [...]
Death is always proud …….
Annette | June 14, 2008
That’s the thing about death. It happens so finally. It is unforgiving. No matter how you entreat it for one more day, one more hour, one more minute, one more kiss, it ignores you and does as it pleases, and what it does will never please you.
You bow your head down to [...]
A friend just sent me this ……….
Annette | June 3, 2008
“In Larry King’s recent interview with Jon Stewart, Larry asked him about the primaries. Specifically, Larry asked Jon if America was ready for a woman or a black president.
“Jon looked at him quizzically and said ‘This is such a non-question. Did anyone ask us in 2000 if Americans were ready for a MORON?’”
“Your debutante knows what you need,
Annette | May 14, 2008
but I know what you want.” Bob Dylan.
What Fuckface and Darth Cheney knew …..
Annette | May 5, 2008
“The first thing they teach kids is that there’s a God — an invisible man in the sky who is watching what they do and who is displeased with some of it. There’s no mystery why they start that with kids, because if you can get someone to believe that, you can add on anything [...]
In conversation with a friend………..
Annette | April 26, 2008
who was talking about a woman in his far distant past. He, a college student, loved her, and he was wondering what might have happened had his grandmother not died and he had to go to Chicago instead of spending that Thanksgiving weekend with her, when he planned to ask her to move in [...]
Exactly ……
Annette | April 16, 2008
” … So does watching a bird make me feel good. You know that if I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.”
William Faulkner
“The Writer’s Chapbook”
Remember …..
Annette | April 10, 2008
I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to become a professional writer. I say to you, ”If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts. But do [...]
A new idea………..
Annette | March 13, 2008
Its premise is very simple: get the politicians out of Congress. Since that’s how our country started, it’s a good idea, I think, if we were to go back to our origins. The Founding Fathers all had other jobs, other lives, and they did a pretty good job of starting up our [...]
A rare sighting
Annette | October 3, 2006
Forget “Meerkat Manor.” There’s nothing so rare as the Florida Squirrel, which is so hard to spot, this is a real scoop.
For your edification, I am pleased to present the FLORIDA SQUIRREL:
Want to know a secret?
Annette | September 19, 2006
Tonight, the second-best show on TV premieres for its – what? – third season?
The secret is that this show, out of all the lawyer shows currently on the air, and all the lawyer shows that have gone before, is closest to what practice really is like in a law firm. No, it’s [...]
Lewis Black gets it right (at least for now)………..
Annette | May 13, 2006
Here’s comic Lewis Black at the Gotham Comedy Club’s 10th anniversary:
“For those of you who are Democrats and those of you who are Republicans, in 2008, please, don’t do anything!
“Don’t nominate people!
“Don’t have conventions! “And don’t waste our fucking time!
“I don’t want to hear Hillary Clinton … If you’re for Hillary, [...]
It’s time, and good Americans must take action ..
Annette | April 21, 2006
Perhaps this is just a small start, but it can’t hurt. It’s time to show true concern and care for our troops, our country, out citizenry’s well-being, and our precious Constitution.
Sign your name, be proud of your country, take our America back from these thugs.
Today, I must go book-shopping ….
Annette | March 8, 2006
…. and buy up every book Molly Ivins has published (even though I’m sure we already have most of them), just because her column reprinted here is so dead right on. If she were here, I’d hug her and kiss her and thank her for writing what she did. For stating it [...]
And English was his second language …
Annette | January 1, 2006
“I don’t mean the courage of self-assertion, either moral or physical, but the mere way of it, the trick of the thing, the readiness of the mind and the turn of the hand that come without reflection and lead the man (sic) to excellence in life, in art, in crime, in virtue, and, for the [...]
