Breakfast at Tiffany’s| Truman CapoteIt reminded me ofOn the Roadby Jack Kerouac,The Rules of Civilityby Amor Towles, and perhaps evenEveryone Brave Is Forgivenby Chris Cleave. Told from the perspective of a neighbor, the novella focuses on Holly, a young woman trying to live a glamorous ...
ANNE:And I think we got on the phone, I think I said it’s uncanny [LAUGHS] how this is like the perfect resume for the position that you don’t know about. GINGER:People ask me sometimes like how did that come about, and I am full of no tips at all other than you know, yeah...
Because they’re simple and straightforward and they make sense in retrospect; and what I mean by that is that when you arrive at the moment of climax and look back at what has transpired to bring you to that point, you invariably say to yourself: “I didn’t see that coming. But wit...
You know what I’m talking about. Whose values? Humans want different things, individually and collectively, and I claim that bracketing this by imagining that the main part of the problem is not turning everything into paper clips is a major mistake. I have seen way too much hand-waving ...
“F**k Civility. Hyperbole, passion, and metaphor are beautiful parts of rhetoric. The marketplace of ideas cannot be toned down for the insane.” - Penn Jillette FEAR "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my ...
Notes on the History of Randolph County, NC Random Topics Researched and Written by L. McKay Whatley The Conjurer June 20, 2023 June 19, 1865, “Juneteenth,” was the day freedom finally came to the enslaved people of Texas, and is now celebrated as our second American independence day...
Jared offers up a series of peculiar news stories and Mark must determine whether a true “Florida Man” was involved. Mark C. Palmer is the Chief Counsel of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, also known as 2Civility Since we talked ...
"life is short, but eternity was forever." "in that young woman," he later said, "i heard the holy spirit." in may 1998, before a crowd of washington luminaries at a local church, he celebrated what he called a "triple-header"—a baptism, confirmation, and first communion. monsignor...
We went on one of those spring break trips you see on social media where you think-Who are these parents and what is wrong with them? It’s me. I’m about the least likely mom to go on a trip of that magnitude. I’ve uttered, “I would NEVER EVER do that” more than a few...
Yeah, right, about as safe as your bank account details held byTalk Talk. But why would anyone want to see a movie shot in and projected on film? The answer is that film provides and richer and more emotional (dare I say it, human) experience. ‘Old’ film has a resolution significan...