Class Critique Pillows

"They never find any lice but it does establish the social order"

Thought for today: "All the world's a stage." - Shakespeare. And boy, are there a lot of drama critics.

Herman Mankiewicz

Reading my Critics

Man: 'How cute. He must like the movement.' Cat: 'There are some challenging themes here but little or no dramatic resonance.'

"VP J.D. Vance called Donald: 'cynical asshole,' a 'moral disaster,' a 'total fraud,' an 'idiot,' and suggested he might be 'America’s Hitler.'"

"You'd think he hated music by the way he tortures it."

Do you have to write the 5 paragraph essays to be a rich investment banker? Or rock star? Or famous actress? No. No. And no. Then why learn to write one? So when those jobs don't work out

"Is there any way I could get a dashboard instead of a report card?"

"Never mind, Harry. Just remember, the 'Saturday Review' loved it."

"This is a test. This is only a test. IF this had been the real world it'd be your job you'd be fighting for, not a letter of the alphabet."

"Maybe I don't like stunning debuts."

"What can I say? Second grade just hasn't lived up to the hype."

'Right so lets be clear, when you said my book was a turgid reworking of a sad collection of hackneyed ideas you actually meant that it was a groundbreaking work of originality and genius...'

'They say my tests are too hard. Maybe I should switch from Essay to Connect-the-Dot.'

'I wasn't playing hooky -- I was fleeing the deteriorating public school system.'

"One can be against entitlements, and still feel a sense of entitlement."

Sculptor's chippings

Suggestions and Cheap Shots.

"My two-year-old actually did paint that."

Bernard Levin

Art Critics.

'Oh no! The sharp elbowed middle class!'

"Well, once you get your PhD on 'The Return of the Repressed in Early Jacobean Drama', then we;ll discuss how disappointed you are."

The blue-collar diner for white-collar people...

'Typical phallic egocentrism!'

Disparate housewives.

"It's taken her years to develop that naive, spontaneous, style."

"A restaurant critic! I hope she doesn't make this place sound too good."

Edgar Allan Poe

"But is it art?"

"I'm not sure what to watch...'Enterprise' or 'Sabado Gigante.'"

"It's too academic."

"I think it would look nicer in red."

Anyone else think the movie was better? Book club bouncer.