“they’re already lurking in the deep end of his indoor pool.”
Donna Laframboise in National Post Feb. 22, 2000 [re someone’s dark thoughts]
“Watching his video is perhaps the closest you will come to entering the mind of a banana without going near a fruit bowl.”
Bryony Gordon in www.telegraph.co.uk Jan. 18, 2008 [the video in question being Tom Cruise explaining Scientology].
“I don’t know if you have ever turned over a dead animal, but depending on how ripe the carcass is, there is a whiff that rises so strongly that the air itself changes color, and a kind of greasy film of rot coats your insides.”
David Beresford, in a piece on a hideous expensive cheese someone once gave him, in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 7 #8 (Issue 57, 7-8/04)
“My new philosophy of life: Lethe faire – let me sleep.”
Me awakened from sleep in the wee hours of February 5-6, 2026.
“It must have been Friday because the fish smell from the Mansion House coffee-shop next door was strong enough to build a garage on.”
Start of “Cinderella Suicide” (a John Dalmas story) in Raymond Chandler Killer in the Rain
“it could knock a buzzard off a manure wagon from 100 paces.”
Craig MacInnis in Ottawa Citizen July 23, 2000
“Why are you making that noise with your face?”
Me March 27 2006 [listening to someone drone on].
“If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.”
Will Rogers quoted in “More Random Quotes” in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #1 (9/03)