Real People

  This is the final Monday Meme in the series.  I’m shifting my focus to a more fully realized webcomic series, which I call Musings In Grayscale.  The first comic in the series will be published October 15 and future

Hayao Miyazaki (IMDb page) is a Japanese film director.  His 2001 animated film Spirited Away is the highest-grossing movie of all time in Japan, and won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2003. He is widely considered to be

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873 – 1954)  was a French writer author, perhaps best known for her novella Gigi, the basis of the Lerner and Loewe musical.  She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948; after her death she

Jon Carroll (b. 1943) was a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1982 until his retirement in 2015.  He still writes in his own blog, Jon Carroll Prose.  His style is both fun to read and very quotable — this

This quote is the best description of script kiddies I know. It is at least a decade old, as one might guess from the source: a LiveJournal admin. School’s out.  Beware the script kiddies.

Lloyd Alexander (1924-2007) wrote dozens of books, including The Black Cauldron, the source of this quote.  The book is the second in the five-volume Chronicles of Prydain series, which I dearly loved (both then and now).  The 1985 Disney movie of the

Nothing deep or political this week — just a humorous observation from game designer Will Wright, creator of SimCity and The Sims.

I gathered the quotations in my collection not by gleaning other collections, but from my own reading.  Also, in some cases, from my own listening.  This one comes from a caller on the sadly defunct Air America Radio, in May

Andre Dubus (1936-1999) was a writer, who (in the words of his New York Times obituary) “was devoted to the art of the short story.”    In 1986 he was struck by a car while helping a pair of stranded