The wise man asks many questions

... as I'd tell my class if the buggers'd put their hands down for just a second.

De haute en bas

I am the birdshit on the statues of once-great men.

non PC est

This isn't a pissing contest.

But if it were, I'd win.

On fiction

The only problem with 'make believe' is that it so rarely does.

After Wilde

Cursing is the work of the drinking classes.

Stationary business

The man in charge of the stationery can never find his pen.

Seriously funny

You can say serious things through the medium of comedy. You just can't really mean them.

Writer's Re: Treat

From my fellow amnesiac, en Espana:

"A sunny Spanish villa stocked with Rioja and bikini-clad women is not the peaceful working environment one might think..."

Aesthetics 101

To make a thing deliberately beautiful is a dastardly act.

- Louis I Kahn, high-flying architect.

To make a thing deliberately ugly is a bastardly act.

- ASH Smyth, low-flying critic.

The death of ASH Smyth, freelancer

Via text message:

'Am painting a primary school (or the 'ICT suite' of one, anyway). You wouldn't BELIEVE the mistakes on the walls. It's killing me!'

cogito

Life is the bind that glues us together.

Thought for the day

If ignorance is bliss, why keep dentists in college for the better part of a decade?

The 15(b) golden rules of theatre etiquette

... according to Benedict Nightingale and me:

15b (and corringendum)
Do NOT, under any circumstances, sniff. If you're ill, stay at home; if you're just ill-bred, stay out of the theatre.

Question

Just out of interest, what's so great about the great unwashed?

In Ernes'

To drop one 't' may be regarded as a misfortune. To drop two looks like Kentishness.

Smyth says

"Give a man a fish and he'll feed himself for a day. Give a man a hat and he'll be an arsehole for the rest of his life."

Thought for the day

"In the land of the blind, can't everyone hear the one-eyed man coming a mile off?"

- ASH Smyth

Thought for the day

To the victor, the smugness.

Thought for the day

The rolling stone gathers no moss.

But it does start avalanches.

Thought for the night

"Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the sort of person who invents the dimmer-switch."