It can be done, but only THE JO-TEL can do it.

Before I begin, let me first tell you how inspiring Achilles’ shield is.
It’s kind of like that scene from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation that I can’t find on youtube. You know, when the wife catches Clark coming back upstairs with a chainsaw and a small tree from the front yard? “Clark!” she says. [...]

“Outbound Atreid”
When I’m onto something like
My Atreid I
Wish I could just color the landscape,
Make the Mycenaean era something to remember like
Oranges or In the
Aeroplane Over the Sea.
“Cadmus, Your Local Hero”
Into unending multitudes because,
If so,
Then when your family was sown like
Dragon’s teeth
You would have finally learned what it was like to
Be a dragon.
“Never-ending Pathways”
Ordered passageway through [...]

No F.W. Murnau’s City Girl (1930) …

… no Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven (1971)

-Shark

There was a segment on the Neil Conan’s NPR show [FN1] this afternoon that featured two doctors discussing how bad it is to drink alcohol in the way that I and many of my friends drink alcohol. I found the show interesting, but was irked with the overall tone, which was markedly and pervasively [...]

My secretary– who I should mention is a very nice person– is dumb. The fact that she is dumb works to her disadvantage as a secretary, something that I put up with so as to not make waves in the office and, also, because having her as my secretary provides me access to lots [...]

“Thetis”
There is nothing scarier that an afternoon, you and your sister on the beach in the bright sun. Hair curving over the bridge. I have a pipe in my mouth and a hunting cap on like Sherlock Holmes. My acumen suits the weather, like when beauty arrived from sea in a clam. I turn to [...]

Friday. For the last three years, October has been the worst. Work is busy right before the holidays and it is also the busy period of the class I teach. I basically have to spend most of my weekends grading moot court briefs and it blows. I did that most of [...]

If you send me an invitation to join LinkedIn, I will ignore it. Not because I don’t like you or your professional skills, but because I have no idea what LinkedIn is or how to pronounce its name.
Love,
Shark

I have probably seen the movie Beaches, starring Better Midler and Barbara Hersey, five times. The first time was when it first came out around 1985. I was five or six. Recently, I have been somewhat of an innocent bystander to Patsy’s penchant for watching it while hungover on the couch. [...]

“Death Valley Dentist”
Pour me five movies and then sidle across the desert. Just be sure to wrap your camera in towels before you film your protagonist, a victim of his own greed, dying in the sun.
“Marble”
Maintaining your posture, you lean up slowly against the pillar. There is a card game going on with [...]