The Rat Squeaks

Shana Alexander: "The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous."

Samuel Johnson: "Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is ...

a man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat fate per a ...

I saw a little lame boy with red hair and too many newspapers under his small arm, jammed against his sweaty shirt, while he was selling the...

Dogger Gatsby: Many people and events in my life are so lost to my memory, it's as if I had not really lived part of my own life. What a...

I followed some good instructions from another how-to site and carried them out pretty accurately so that now I have a tiny signature (my in...

This is the kind of thank-you note I sometimes get over on my help blog, "Most Frequent Blogger Questions" . It's a typical no...

One of the neighbors was greeting the new neighbor, who'd just introduced himself. "I just now noticed that those plants are gone o...

It's so seldom that Blogger makes any clear and evident announcement of their new small improvements or features that I wondered if some...

Whatever. I've been too put off to do very much of consequence, so I guess I could talk about the things I already did and forgot to men...