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(Come say hello tomorrow, November 15, 11–2, at the Hagemann Memorial Author Showcase, East Haven Senior Center, 91 Taylor Avenue, East Haven, CT!)

Theoretically, one can "buy me a coffee"

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Basil Wolverton!

A garland of quotations CXLVI

(Warning! Keep out of the brains of children! I do not endorse this filth! Oh, and do come see me this Saturday, November 15, 11–2, at the Hagemann Memorial Author Showcase, East Haven Senior Center, 91 Taylor Avenue, East Haven, CT)

Also filthy: this book I wrote

Love is slipping off one’s petticoat and—but we all know what love is.
•Virginia Woolf, Orlando (1928).

And since perversion, like refinement, is an arc, the which, if ye but extend it far enough, returns upon itself, by the evening’s end ...

The 200 Best Songs of the 1960s part 2 of 10

(Come see me November 15, 11–2, at the Hagemann Memorial Author Showcase, East Haven Senior Center, 91 Taylor Avenue, East Haven, CT)

Mostly, I write books

If you buy one, I won't die of exposure.

Remember the rules: One cut per artist. That’s the main rule. Part #181–200 is here.

180 Cry like a Baby by The Box Tops (1968)

A very weird rock ’n’ roll song made weirder by the fact that it also pure pop, and a little bubble-gummy. It also has everything thrown in, an electric sitar (!), an opening John...

Truly Wordless Comic Panels

These are books I wrote

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A garland of quotations CXLV

(Come see me November 15, 11–2, at the Hagemann Memorial Author Showcase, East Haven Senior Center, 91 Taylor Avenue, East Haven, CT)

TRY A BOOK O' MINE

You are metaphysicians. You can prove anything by metaphysics; and having done so, every metaphysician can prove every other metaphysician wrong—to his own satisfaction. You are anarchists in the realm of thought. And you are mad cosmos-makers.
•Jack London, The Iron Heel (1908).

In fact, the balance wheel which maintains in motion the watch of meta...

Truly Wordless Comic Panels

Read THE BIG BOOK OF MONSTERS!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

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Chuck Winter!

A garland of quotations CXLIV

(Come see me November 15, 11–2, at the Hagemann Memorial Author Showcase, East Haven Senior Center, 91 Taylor Avenue, East Haven, CT)

SPOOKY BOOKS FOR HALLOWEEN!

(I wrote 'em)

I have been thinking lately about the monsters—or fantasies or whatever—that frightened me as a child, and that probably frightened me into being an artist. I can only come up with a few. My parents, of course. The vacuum cleaner, which still frightens me. My sister. A very few ordinary horrors from movies, books, the radio. ...

The 200 Best Songs of the 1960s, part 1 of 10

(Come see me November 15, 11–2, at the Hagemann Memorial Author Showcase, East Haven Senior Center, 91 Taylor Avenue, East Haven, CT)

Mostly, I wrote books.

If you buy one, I won't die of exposure.

(Part two is here)

My basic attitude towards the ’60s is more or less like my basic attitude to the early years of Modernism: It’s mostly bad and dumb, but it must have been exciting to be young then. But then there’s the music…

Not Modernist music; I mean the music of the 1960s. When has music ever been a...

Truly Wordless Comic Panels

TONIGHT ONLY! October 24, 7–9, All-Hallows Emo Night, Badsons Beer Co., 251 Roosevelt Dr., Derby CT (tickets here)!

THE BOOKS PEOPLE LIKE!

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Bernard Baily!

A garland of quotations CXLIII

(Upcoming appearances: October 24, 7–9, All-Hallows Emo Night, Badsons Beer Co., 251 Roosevelt Dr., Derby CT (tickets here) | November 15, 11–2, Hagemann Memorial Author Showcase, East Haven Senior Center, 91 Taylor Avenue, East Haven, CT)

THE BOOKS PEOPLE LIKE!

By strange device were they brought there,
They knew not how, nor knew not where.
•Walter Scott, Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field (1808).

There are staircases in every passage, and passages to every closet.
•Fanny Burney, diary (1786).

There wa...