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A Clockwork Orange.

Bloom is the definition of a critic who sees his job as 1) drawing a line in the sand, and 2) standing by that line resolutely, even when the tide is in up to his knees. "I'm not wavering a bit, dammit! My standards are eternal and infallible!"

While I think there is some merit to Bloom's argument, on Harry Potter and so many other things he is indeed agonizing. I imagine he pronounces 'literature' as 'lit-ra-toor.'

Sirhan Sirhan.
Boutros Boutros Ghali.

Hey, nobody told you to rain on his parade!

When I was a kid I told a friend of mine that a Rip Hunter: Time Master TV show would be great. I was just reaching for the most obscure comic character I could think of. It's weird how sixth-grade me is now running at least one television network.

Flee, Spider-Man! Not even your powers can stop COLLECTIBLES MARKET GLUT!

A Spider-Man musical? Has the world gone insane?

I worked with a guy who said his grandparents were so observant that they would tear off sheets of toilet paper and set them beside the toilet on Friday before sundown, because tearing toilet paper during the Sabbath was technically work. The guy told me this as we ate barbecued pork ribs during Yom Kippur, so

That sweet Laurel Canyon burning sensation

And then the cat would say, "Aw look, you ran over them. So I guess we'll call those moles' deaths an accident, but drive more carefully in the future."

One of the dog domestication theories is that wolves were already pack animals, and pack hunters, so they instinctively understood the obtaining of food to be a collaborative activity, even when they were wild animals.
Cats, wild or domesticated, have always had a "when I'm hungry I'll go get myself some food"

He already won.

What's that boy? Timmy's trapped at the bottom of the well?

How about those clowns in Congress? What a bunch of clowns!

I guess we'll just have to make fun of powerful people, then.

Also known as the Pee-Wee Herman Effect.

Racist.

As Yeats said, "The best lack all conviction/While the worst are full of passion fruit intensively."

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