(We've posted on this before, but here's Mark Twain 's version:) For example, in Year 1 that useless letter c would be ...

  ...Yes, this is us, this morning, the Esterel hills to the south of Le Trayas...  ...with the Mediterranean right next to it...

I've just finished reading Michael Ampersant's outrageous new novel Green Eyes .   (Artwork by Miguel Angel Reyes )

Heinrich Lübke Heinrich Lübke was the second president of postwar (West) Germany, and he is remembered for only one thing, his English...

(Maud sent this:)

"In truth I need the money to buy a copy of Michael Ampersant 's outrageous new novel Green Eyes "

Previously , Alex ("Green Eyes") offered to give us a ride, we took him upstairs for the same, we did it, and somehow we fell asl...

(This is Frank Sinatra, isn't it? Well, for once we are out-plussed. We have no corresponding fragment from Michael Ampersant '...

"My fellow Americans, let me say to you: Stand witness to the death of the red tie!"

This is us, folks, this is us, Chang saying ""book,"" ("your hobby," "don't get obsessed about ...

More Sirrr-wise, this time as a comment on the Daily Beast (scroll down). Let us explain. Andrew Sullivan has a post on Philip Roth , who, ...

(So let's contemplate: )  And here's a fitting clip from the Green Eyes (Chapter 20, "My father and your father were ...

(We did it again, we did it again. Another Sirrr letter, this time in the comment section of Paul Krugman's latest column in the NYT:)...

(A friend sends this picture:) (And the corresponding Green Eyes fragment is?) Chapter 43 --- A surgical strike into semant...

(We normally don't do senior citizen jokes, but there you have it:)  (We may need glasses to read that, don't we?)

Bob Bienpensant : The art of doing nothing

"This guy should read Michael Ampersant's outrageouos new novel Green Eyes

Armani minimum (n.phr.) Giorgio Armani's tumescence when he wears his Armani jeans. Usage (Green Eyes, Ch. 30): "Any hint of tumes...