Sarcasm Alley
In the Land of Milk and Honey when you die they think it's funny
cheshyre grin
- Location
- Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come
- Birthday
- January 01
- Title
- The One True
- Company
- An ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own.
- Bio
- Quit your snooping, bitch.
MY RECENT POSTS
- "I don't feel like a hero."
May 27, 2012 11:36AM - The Sword Of Doom (Clarity In
A Grey World)
May 26, 2012 10:09AM - Do You Have An OS Spy?
May 23, 2012 08:07AM - Why I Watch Travel Channel
While Broke
May 21, 2012 03:05AM - War In The Elevator
May 18, 2012 05:18AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Thanks, Libby. I thought
it was a beautiful gesture by
the
vets. True heroes
keep…”
6:39PM - “I think a lot of people
were being disingenuous in
their
statements, phyllis.
The…”
4:18PM - “We now resume our
regularly scheduled
shooting.”
11:39AM - “Thanks, LL. With my
Western eyes I missed the
karmic
undertones when I first
watc…”
May 26, 2012 05:53PM - “In corporations we
trust. God knows why.”
May 26, 2012 04:48PM
Cheshyre grin's Links
- Fort Worth Japanese Gardens
- Japanese Garden Blossoms In Winter's Repose
- The Sounds Of Japan, FW Gardens (Video)
- A Gentle Japanese Rain In Autumn
- Japanese Spring Festival 2010
- Photo Trip: Autumn Solace in the Japans
- The Japans - Echoes of the Past
- My Opus
- In Search Of The REAL Bonnie and Clyde
- Lives Fallen Through The Cracks
- One Flew Over The Homeless Camp
- Happy Sam Is A Dreamer
- Jimmy One Shoe Is Dead. You're Next.
- The Last Moments Of A Street Hustler
- Where Is Home?
- The Dying Of The Light
- Church Pees On Jobless, Tells Them It's Raining
- Sometimes...
- The Broken Egg
- A Small Smile at the Shelter Today
- The Streets Of Darian
- The Fires Of Darian
- Colby "Lotto" Lewis
- Lives Like Autumn Leaves
- Jonathon Isn't Speaking Anymore
- Darian the Dreamer
- Goupil, The Assassin
- 5. Goupil: An Assassin In Love
- 4. Goupil: A Bullet For Love
- 3. Goupil: Something's Got To Change
- 2. Goupil: Life After Arrest
- 1. An Assassination Of Character
- Meta Movies
- Writer Vs. Writer, The Movie
- Open Salon: The Movie
- Great OS Spambot Clone War of 2010
- Zhomas Explains Why The Four Hour Feed Is Gone
- Zerry Forces Zhomas To Apologize
- OS Satyricon! The Empire Strikes Back!
- Oda Nobunaga, Warlord of Japan
- Oda's Great Moment
- Oda! (A journey to Japan)
- To Whom Can I Answer?
- Loathing On A Summer Morn
- Photo Essays
- Chandor Gardens
- God Hates Fags? (Photo Journalism)
- The Last Picture Show Revisited
- Take A Tour Of Cowboys Stadium!
- Japanese Spring Festival 2010
- Water and Walkways at the Kimbell Art Museum
- Historic Homes of Gainesville
- Harry Does Dallas: Ghosts Of Deep Ellum
- Historic Baker Hotel
- Texas' Killing Kilns of Chemicals
- FW Japanese Gardens
- Harry Gets a New Camera
- Dallas Urban outposts On a Rainy Day
- Cowboys Home Opener In New Stadium (Photo Essay)
- Autumn Solace in the Japans
- The Streets of Darian
- Pate Transportation Museum Closing
- The Pharaoh Eats Mexican (Photo Essay)
- The Reds of Japan
- Sei Shonagon & The Japans
- Gracia Hosokawa, A Samurai's Samurai
- Sengoku Jidai: The Winds Of Destiny
- Kagemusha (Shadow Warrior)
- The Japans - Echoes of the Past
- Great Films of The Japans
- Kakushi-toride no san-akunin
- Lists of Sei Shonagon
- Lists of Sei Shonagon II
- Read all about it
- Mr. Steed Interviews Mrs. Emma Peel
Quarter mile from me a power
line was hit
Growing up in the Texas Panhandle, the windiest place in the country, tornados were as common as prairie dogs. Most I remember seeing was six in one night as I stood in the parking lot of the hotel restaurant where I worked/…
Another year is gone;
and I still wear
straw hat and straw sandal.
-Basho
and I still wear
straw hat and straw sandal.
-Basho
As the good book says, there is a time for all things under the sun. To me, that means there's as much beauty in winter as any season. And while oftentimes on the surface nothing/…
They
will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into
pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.
Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.
I can't stand the military. There, I said it. Any situation or person who demands I not think I simply have no use/…
Capitalism, next to war, is the most naive of all human endeavors. It's a system set up to reward greed. And as I heard one person say, capitalism is a way of harnessing human selfishness for the greater good. And so-called human reason says we can trust that to always benefit/…
On September 1, 1923 came the Great Kanto earthquake. A 13 year old boy experiences the quake firsthand, recounting it later:
At that point I heard a rumbling sound from beneath the ground. I was wearing my high wooden clogs, and in order to hit the cow [I was returning] I… Read full post »
Author's note: This all started for me when I read about
a book signing by Jeff Guinn here in Dallas. I was contemptuous
because I saw it was a book about Bonnie and Clyde and it smacked
to me after all this time of someone making an easy dollar off
their… Read full post »
If ever there was an event made for Dallas it would be the Super Bowl. Dallas is a city that loves to whore itself out to the most glamorous god it can find and the Super Bowl is the most glamorous sporting event there is in the good ol' US/…
This was orginally written as a response to a post by the
great Beth Mann
back in May 2009.
I'm more outcast than outlaw but I've always had a disdain for the facade of our pretentious world order where we always claim to know "the way". There's a whole… Read full post »
Just as December 7, 1941 spelled doom for Japan, so did November 22, 1963 for America. I realize that may seem hyperbolic to some but look at the consequences we face today for having chosen the path of darkness: endless futile wars, wholesale economic devastation and rampant, unchecked corru/…
Autumn (aki) in Japanese poetry oftentimes represents death so naturally you find many references to it in Death Poems (jisei), usually written just before dying or when one expects to very possibly die (as in an upcoming battle). But death can also mean renewal and the Autumn Equinox is a natio… Read full post »
No, I didn't have privilege of attending the game but I was able to
sneak in afterwards. Just to let you know, they do not allow
"re-entry" after a game and I was stopped cold - on my first
attempt. But knowing the Ballpark like I do there are lots/… Read full post »
"...and of course you're going to shoot it in black and white."
- Orson Welles to director Peter Bogdanovich
Who am I to dispute the great Orson Welles? So I fiddled with my camera's settings to shoot black and white and headed out to Archer City, site for/…
Festivals are a huge part of Japanese culture, a safe outlet for social celebration amid the rigid hierarchy. And in Texas there is no finer place for one than the 7.5 acres of the Fort Worth Japanese gardens. This year they did it right due to the growing popularity over/…
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