Writing Buff Gifts

'Yes, a winky face is correcy...But in ancient times, the semicolon was actually used to separate archaic written devices know as 'complete sentences.''

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

'The iceman cometh too soon!'

'Alas, poor Yorick, I knew you well. But dude, you're creeping me out, so I gotta un-friend you!'

"I think I may have stumbled on something, Walpole."

German Expressionist Breakfast

The writer: something who devotes a lifetime of solitude to the same of communication.

"The spoon, he ran away with the goddam spoon."

John Bunyan

"Have you read any of Shakespeare's plays?"

Audio Books

Wishing Well, Wishing Good.

'Yorick? No, I don't think so, unless of course he was a Neanderthal!'

'Here's something that should suit your wooden acting style. How do you fancy playing the lead in Pinocchio?'

Emily Dickinson: Mime - "I think she's saying something about death."

Doggone

Cat Burglar

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

'It's a novel based on a movie adapted from a magazine article that was inspired by a video game.'

Humpty Dumpty goes bungee jumping.

Shakespeare. Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet. "To be or not to be, that is the question". "We are such stuff …As dreams are made of …" "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would small as sweet." That Shakespeare guy had some neat sound bites.

Myths and legends...

'I'll blurb you if you'll blurb me.'

"It's about the murder of an editor who refuses to publish a writer's work..."

Moby Dick

Local rock claims to have been muse for Emily Dickinson poem "I'm that 'little stone' honest to goodness!"

"Eye of pie...a**e of rat...p**s of newt."

"I told him he should have trained more."

'Fyodor Dostoevsky sends weeks describing Alexy Karamazov's quest for a white whale, and then discards the entire chapter."

"Hamlet. By William Shakespeare." Painting.

Malaprop Man! Adventures. Malaprop Man! Where have you been? At a stupor her comet confection! Did many of your fellow heroes show up? We had a great turnabout! Backman and the Incredible Bulk were there! So was Caption Americ, the Flush, Wander Woman and Plasterman! Very impressive. Who was the most popular with the fans? I think I was the main distraction! I have no doubt at all about that!

Shakespeare Street

Knickerless Cage.

"So, to sum up, I would like to say that Shakespeare is an awesome genius in the same category as Albert Einstein and Jerry Garcia."

"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! … Emerson" "Good boy!"