It's been a year since we've been in Venice, and now we've hit upon this beautiful picture by Hannes Steinert , depicting, you...

(Staying for a week---Michael has another appointment with the ophthalmologist) 

Bob Bienpensant : The art of doing nothing

"Hi, I'm really a sweet guy, and even though something is wrong with the horizon, I, too, read Michael Ampersant 's outrageo...

"Now I get it!"

"Low-information voters may blame the President for the weather" (Hendrik Hertzberg in The New Yorker , Nov. 6, 2012)

"Why, oh why, have beauty spots gone out of fashion?"

Since we are a literature blog now, we have to do serious stuff, like posting some serious pictures, like. Like this one... Tyson Beck...