Robert Cormack
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Satirist, journalist, short story writer and author of "You Can Lead a Horse to Water (But You Can't Make It Scuba Dive)" Now moving on to children's books, hopefully with the same success—if, in fact, I'm anywhere near successful.
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Is Reading For Chumps?
"Everybody’s talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell.” Maureen Dowd “Reading is 4 chumps, brotha,” Mew16 wrote on Reddit, an opinion shared by many commenting—and not just brothas. As one woman explained, “Maybe it was being forced to read for 12 years, and the whole thing associated with shitty teachers and shitty people and shitty memories.”
By Robert Cormack6 years ago in Geeks
Happiness Is Boring.
“I have been to The Land of Happy — what a bore.” Shel Silverstein In Silverstein’s “The Land of Happy” everyone’s merry. They joke, they sing, they laugh. So why does he call it boring? Perhaps because that’s all they do. It’s what William Burroughs called “wanting the victory without the war.”
By Robert Cormack6 years ago in Humans
