Hamlet Aficionado Mugs

''To be or not to be'? -- It's always about you, isn't it?'

Edgar Allen Poe

"Jill Hamster's entrepreneurial disaster"

King Henry and his Cheshire bride

"I'm just saying. This would be even MORE romantic if we couldn't see in the dark."

The Origami Society...

'Notice how with truth in packaging requirements all the labels begin with ‘OMG!''

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

'Don't worry, you're safe. I started my diet today.'

Mantis Love

'I know how much you like holding hands, so I brought you a box of them..'

"No chips, but I did snag the new Hiaasen."

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

"You have no idea what it's like to be a 'just between you and me' person in a 'just between you and I' world."

"He was a big man, but he moved like a cat."

Frontispiece to 'Dombey and Son'

My Literary Influences

Ironing Punctuation

Why would a dog wear a hat?

"Wait, wait, back up, back up. Who the #!@! is George Orwell?"

Tesseract of the D'Urbervilles.

'He speaks for our entire generation. Pity he's such a bore...'

Trilby - 'The sweet melodic phrase.'

Sherlock Holmes with a magnifying glass.

'Oh no! Is this a blogger I saw before me?'

'Excellent job, Fenwick, especially the part where you employ Magic Realism to fudge third-quarter earnings!'

LIBRARY, 'Sorry, Mr. Wimble -- you've had just about enough Kafka for one day.'

'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...'

The Epsom Derby - Bookies

Don't you see, Kreutzer? That's why we have all this literature. So you won't duplicate an experiment that's already been done, and there's no reason at all why you should be duplicating Smedly's experiments. After all, he shares a lab with you.

How a poet works