Ray Bradbury

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

-- Ray Bradbury

Female Self-Defense

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Netflix's "House of Cards"

WTF, Netflix is producing its own shows and only for their website, and they are better than HBO and Showtime, with a star like Keven Spacey?? WTF, WTF!!!

Palestinians and Israelis

"More Palestinians were killed in Gaza yesterday than Israelis have been killed by projectile fire from Gaza in the past three years."

-- Yousef Munayyer

Yeah, but they always leave out the fact that the low body-count of Israelis is not due to lack of effort. If they were more competent, they would be killing hundreds of Jews with every rocket. If they could, they might well eliminate all the Jews. The real interesting card in play is this: how long will it be before they do acquire such holocaustic capability?

Philip Roth

“I don’t want to read fiction, I don’t want to write it, and I don’t even want to talk about it anymore. I dedicated my life to the novel. At the exclusion of nearly everything else. It’s enough!”

-- Philip Roth

A recent splash in the literary world was the big announcement by Mr. Roth that he is retiring. I have to confess that I have not read anything by the man, but I will use this news as a spur to put "Portnoy's Complaint" on my 'wanna read' list. I've long been curious about it but never got around to it.

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Marilyn

Was Marilyns mole real?

Yes, Marilyn’s mole was real. However, it was more like a skin colored bump which she filled in with an eyeliner pencil to make it appear darker.

-- EternalMarilynMonroe Tumblr




Marilyn Monroe with Sir Laurence Olivier and Arthur Miller shortly after arriving in England to film The Prince and the Showgirl, 1956.

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