Lyricism Lover Gifts

Nick Cave

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

"Meet The Author"

'I didn't dedicate my book, A Lifetime of Wine Tasting, to my 3 ex-wives and nine kids, because they made it possible. I did it because they made it necessary.'

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Now I really hate poetry."

"Once upon a midnight dreary / while I pondered weak and weary."

"They've remained remarkably faithful to the text."

Rejected Titles For The Canadian National Anthem.

Distractions Of The Great

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

Updated Nursery Rhyme #27.

John Bunyan

"Your usually vicious sarcasm is weak. Go pump some irony."

"If you could be any Bob Dylan you wanted to, which Bob Dylan would you be?"

'Charlotte's Website' ('The children's book classic rewritten for the electronic era!')

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

"Oh, this old thing?"

'Never mind singing it in rap... a simple 'I do' will suffice.'

The intellectual.

Iris Murdoch

Dating an English Major

"It that it? I don't have my contacts in."

Senta jumps into the sea

'Which wine goes best with 'the old man and the sea'?'

"Off my back and out of the sack. Let's unpack and have a snack!"

"It's basically the 'Tragedy of King Lear' but with animated penguins."

Thomas Hardy

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

'The next piece contains sex, violence, and Homeric epithets.'

'As I walk through the halls, I see teachers teaching and students learning and I say to myself, 'what wonderful school, what a wonderful world.''