qotd

Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial. — Edward Abbey

The next big thing

So I think I’ve finally figured out that we have our Next Big Thing™, that Great Menace which has come to fill the void in our American psyche since the Berlin Wall was torn down, and we no longer have the Communist Menace to focus our angst and fear on. We have Islamic Terrorism. This Continue reading The next big thing