“Do not shoot the piano player. He is doing his best.”

chuckmckeever:

austinkleon:

I came across this line in one of my notebooks and had no idea where it came from. Google tells me it’s from a story about visiting a saloon with Colorado miners in Oscar Wilde’s essay, “

It’s even better in context, and shows that violence has been alive and well in the West for a long time:

I also love this bit about how American cities really ain’t much to look at:

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