"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain

Tom Lehrer singing "We Will All Go Together When We Go"

Really? Nobody's gonna take issue with my posts about John Cage and Samuel Beckett, and abstract painting (see Art Snark posts)? There are no closet Cage fans out there, or even Philip Glass aficionados? I find that hard to believe. So if you're out there, and reading this blog, snark back at me so we can have a good conversation. You know- a little give-and-take. I DARE you!!!

I wouldn't have wanted to be the cutest cat in the pet store when Erwin Schrödinger walked in.

I always feel sorry for the guy in the chicken suit dancing around to advertise the new sandwich shop. But then I remember the "Now Hiring" sign in the window of the Walgreens down the street, and I don't feel sorry any more.

Snarku #2

Dude, if I were you,
I'd go crawl under a rock
and stay there a while.

 "If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln

To all the people at the Louvre who, despite explicit instructions, took pictures of the Mona Lisa with the flash on: Mona Lisa should have climbed down out of her painting and smacked you. Hard.

To the woman in front of me in the check-out line today: the 80s called- they want their hair back. And their clothes. And sunglasses. In fact, they request that you just build a time machine and send yourself back to them because you're disrupting the space-time continuum.

Oh yes, scientists who think it's a good idea to bring back extinct species, like in Jurassic Park. That can only work out well, as we've seen with the dinosaurs.