Socrates’ complaints about Homer are my complaints about Peter Jackson.
Trust Your Enemies
“A man usually has no idea what is being said about him. The entire town may be slandering him, but if he has no friends he will never hear of it.”
-Balzac
“If a friend tell thee a fault, imagine always that he telleth thee not the whole.”
-Thomas Fuller
A Brother Offended
A brother offended is not easily won; a brother easily offended is never won.
A Solution To The Problem Of People’s Phones Going Off During An Event
“Good evening, everyone. We’re so glad you’re here. I’d like to ask everyone to take this opportunity to silence your phones. If your phone goes off during the performance/service, we ask you make a $20 donation to our cause. You’ll find boxes near the exits where you can leave your donation. Thanks, and enjoy the show.”
Christmas Comes But Once A Year
The latest episode of Proverbial is committed to the only real proverb which concerns Christmas.
Things I Would Like To Be Grateful For This Christmas
Giuseppe Giusti’s Banda Rossa 20-year vinegar
Frederic Malle’s Noir Epices
jjjjound x Reebok Classic Nylon White (Size 13)
Esteban’s Amber Japanese style incense
A bronze gong, perhaps this one or even this one
Nishane discovery set, Serge Lutens discovery set
D.S. & Durga car fresheners
The Best Movie Of 2023
For most of the year, I was ready to call Blackberry the best film of the year (and you really ought to see it), but no, it’s The Holdovers. A truly lovely film that heavily recalls the early work of Tobias Wolff, Peter Bogdanovich, and maybe a little bit of JD Salinger.
Wrapped 2023
Black Friday: Strategy
There’s not a store on earth which has any incentive to actually stage their biggest sales on Black Friday or Cyber Monday anymore.
I Will Justify The Ways Of Christmas To Man
“My suspicion, then, is that as mankind gains more and more control over nature, we will need Christmas to begin earlier and earlier. If we are impatient, we are impatient to escape the atheistic world of time in which modernity has trapped us.
“So,” sneers the grinch, “you’d prefer Christmas to begin in January? Is that what you’re shilling for now?” Well, in a manner of speaking, yes. Absolutely.”
-from There’s A Good Reason The Christmas Season Keeps Getting Longer, my latest for CiRCE
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. 