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...their more unfortunate past male acquaintances) will attest, I have a difficult time hiding my disdain for people I don’t like or respect. In my personal life, I’ve gotten away with shunning unpalatable people. Among my roommates, it’s become a joke that’s recounted in the long nights before tests or after boy-jerks...
...never did answer. It’s a joke now (I call him the Manipulator and he calls me a Cold B****). It’s funny (kind of), but every once in a while, I’m still troubled by the lesson that I’m painfully swallowing. As I look back, being tactless always had a tradeoff, but the price I had to pay was always worth being able to say the things I wanted to say. But now, at least at work, I find that I can no longer afford the price of that strangely...
...sort of convinced that the entire scheme was concocted as an immense joke, but it also works as a cliffhanger, keeping the listener mesmerized with the tale as it unfolds. I won’t reveal any more details, but I can tell you that, by the end, Chuck seems to be the only character free of blame...
...Bosh And Flapdoodle By A.R. Ammons "I'm largely a big joke: if somebody else/ doesn't make a crack about me, I do." You can be charmed by Ammons' self-effacement, but don't be fooled by it. His poems, framed in ordinary language and couched in stately couplets, are twisty and testy, bawdy and funny. This is Ammons' last book - he died in 2001 at the age of 75 - and you have a sense of him getting in his last licks, with no time left for politeness. "Do with the obvious," he advises, "little lies behind...
...Blossom, an attractive young lady of mysterious background appears halfway through this first volume to create some tension with the determined bachelor Walt. These sorts of plot developments - another involves a phony oil futures huckster - give the strip a narrative drive that take it well beyond a mere joke a day about cars and kids and into soap opera territory. The other major female character arrives after Walt goes through several comically inadequate nannies. He settles on Rachel, an unfortunately stereotypical black "mammy" character. Yet, taken objectively, even the caricature of Rachel is in keeping with the pervasive racism...