Anvil in a Lace Bootie

If you’re awaiting an event with bated breath, you’re scarcely breathing. Your breath is restrained. If you’re awaiting an event with baited breath, you’ve been eating garlic. Tweet

The swells looked tired as they crested and fell apart on the beach, and gathered themselves and withdrew slowly, and got upright and fell toward the beach again. Guy takes Raymond Chandler’s unfinished Poodle Springs to as good a conclusion as you’ll find anywhere in the sunny seams of L.A. Tweet

And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light. This baby is chock full o’ nifty handmade handmaid sentences. Tweet

The man who speaks of JEN-yoo-ine Instead of JEN-yoo-in Began a letter home, “Dear Kine’: He had in mind “Dear Kin.”   Who? A humorous grammar guy. Trust me. Tweet

I wear English Leather Cologne which keeps me smelling very attractive at all times. Too bad he couldn’t hang out longer before taking his jesting to infinity. Tweet

We live at the mercy of a malevolent word. Pithy, Joe, pithy. Tweet

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‘Why don’t you do something to help me?’ Will watching ‘March of the Wooden Soldiers’ today do? Tweet

To be feted is a good thing. To be fetid, not so much. Tweet

‘The day was brightening all about them as if a pink lamp had been given more wick.’ Ray takes a turn at describing dawn and does quite well, I must say. Tweet