I always knew the land I regularly walk was a piece of America’s past, but it’s not just any past – it’s a tale woven with adventure, grit, and the birth of a new identity. This stretch of earth, once part of the original Oklahoma Land Run, carries within it the pioneering spirit of those daring enough to claim it in the 1889 land rush. Today this part of my home state is called Red Dirt Country.
Talk Tough Like Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective! Don’t say “money,” say “cabbage” or “geetus.” “Ordinarily, I don’t work on a case unless I know there’s a stack of cabbage in…
Talk Tough Like Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective! Don’t say “bullet,” say “lead pill.” “First one among you who tries to get away, gets a lead pill in his tripes.” And…
Talk Tough Like Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective! Instead of saying “cigarette,” say “gasper.” “I smoked about ten gaspers, killed nearly a whole fifth of scotch before I got lunch.” “I…
Depraved by an unbridled lust for rare books, every bookseller in town had been in her library.
Sure I’m a flirt! So what? This! I struggled against his embrace and then even though I fought against it, I found myself not struggling … I wanted him to…
A parallel revolt against the traditional modes of expression took place in poetry under the leadership of the Symbolists, who strove for direct poetic experience unspoiled by intellectual elements. They…
The chain of being, or the great chain of being, is a Neoplatonic metaphor for the hierarchical nature, function, and organization of the universe. The concept, created by Plotinus (205?-270),…
Are you SubGenius material? If so, there is a church for you, the Church of the SubGenius, founded in Dallas, Texas in 1981 by the Reverend Ivan Stang, a very…
These quotes by Marcel Duchamp are cited in Alexander Liberman’s 1997 book entitled The Artist In His Studio. “Today the artist is free, free to die of hunger. An artist should have no social obligations.”…
