But, soft: behold! lo where it comes again! I'll cross it, though it blast me. - Stay, illusion! If thou hast any sound, or use a vo...

Lokfire from Hollywood Hates Me writes: Cloud Atlas is a new movie by the Matrix Brothers, and it's about how everyone's lives ar...

Hans-Werner Henze, 1926 - 2012 He was 86 years old. Instead of an obituary, a fragment from the Green Eyes  (what else), written 2 mon...

(Click to enlarge) (We should post a review, yes, but we're still thinking: we simply can't get over the fact that Oliver dump...

Bob Bienpensant --- Wet Dreams (1)

The place looks best at dusk, she thought. The oak trees across the pond outside had already turned dark, casting their black profile across...

We borrowed this from our sister-blog , but we have an excuse, since it's also about writing techniques (see header). Here goes:   Pin...

Sacha sends an email asking whether we would know a way to get on a boat and watch Les voiles de St. Tropez closeup. We suggest to rent a...

Bette Midler I haven't left my house in days, I watch the news channels incessantly, All the news stories are about the elec...

(Hat tip: a site on Tumblr with "Bad Boy" in the name that we failed to retrieve afterwards)

It had to happen, it had to happen. One fine day, John will ask Alex: "What's idempotency?" And since this will be in one of t...

Freedom Fries, yes, how about the Freedom Fries . The term came into being in the spring of 2003, when President Jaques Chirac of France re...

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The IHT had a column by Alex Beam about the new website I Write Like , which uses a Bayesian classifier algorithm to compare anyone's...

So you are writing a novel, or a play, about Winston Churchill, say, and somebody just said to him: "Winston, if you were my husband, I...

"I'm ticklish."

Like everybody else, we're getting these letters from Nigeria. Here's the latest (from .pl, actually, that's Poland, I think, ...

Milka milk chocolate, with the milk from happy cows ---that was the slogan of a chocolate commercial during my youth in Germany. And there...