Every so often, somebody comes up with a line that perfectly describes a situation AND perfectly evokes an emotional response. I’m told this same construction was used to good effect in The Watchmen, but I’ve heard it in other places, including in an episode of…
Today’s two-for-one one-liner comes from “Your Mind Is on Vacation” as sung by my imaginary white jazz singer boyfriend, Mose Allison. The first is: If silence was golden, you couldn’t raise a dime. And the second gives the song its title: ‘Cause your mind is…
Friend and fellow writer Lisa Cobb, who writes fabulous fantasies under the name of Eli Cobb, spent a night at the haunted writers retreat. We were talking about the creepiness of dolls. She said one of her daughters was creeped out by dolls. She said…
