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"Oh, wretched wench, painting unworthy face, make me a vanilla latte." -- FatScribe
FatScribe Proverb No. 2
"Don't mess with the tax man, man." -- FatScribe
FatScribe Proverb No.48
"It is better to be thought a fat man, than to take one's shirt off and remove all doubt."
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FatScribe Pull No. 9
"Instead of the cocksure posturing of the alpha-male, I prefer the comic blunderings of the unsure average Joe."
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Movie Reviews and Criticism
- "The Ghost Writer" ... New England Noir
- 2009 Movies in Review
- "The Envelope" ... Please
- "A Single Man" Reviewed
- The Brothers Bloom, a Film Review
- Why You Should Watch "A Good Year"
- Shakespeare and David Kelley?
- Quentin Tarantino: This Dog Has No Reservoir
- War of the Worlds, A Film Review
- Batman Begins, a Movie Review
FatScribe Slight No. 3
"Normally, I feign interest when someone like you is talking. But, you. You bore me." - FatScribe
About FatScribe.com
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- FatScribe.com is about getting one's chops in order; putting something on the page and some skin in the game. Writers write, even if unpaid. If you have something to say, and don't, intellectual obesity sets in. "Fat is a state of mind." --- All rights reserved. Content may not be published, rewritten, or redistributed without written permission.
Past Columns -- Some Choices 2011
- blog crush No. 1
- From this Week's FatScribe Satchel
- Egypt ... and the "Mystery of Capital"
- Code-Shifters Unite! ... Redux
- Monday Blog Love
- Eleven in '11 ... No. 6 (the museum)
- Eleven in '11 ... No. 5 (the grand gesture)
- Eleven in '11 ... No. 4 (cars)
- Eleven in '11 ... No. 3 (film)
- Eleven in '11 ... No. 2 (books)
- Eleven in '11 ... No. 1 (fountain pens)
- Let's NOT Politicize Murder
- The Next Big ... Yawn
Creative Writing (so called)
FatScribe Proverb No.33
"Keep your friends close, and your desserts closer ... to your side of the table." -- FatScribe
Everyone's a critic ...
The Column (2010)
- The Denouement of the Holiday Troika is Upon Us
- Bigger and Better ... than California?
- Thick-headed Update ...
- Thinly Veiled Update ...
- It's not Business, it's Biznasty
- Brankton Walks Austin
- Death Takes a Holiday ... Not (Redux)
- Helms Man, Watermelon Man ... Redux
- When the Fit Hits the Shan ... Redux
- Boys are Silly. Thank God for That.
- Ask Fats No. 1
- Life as a 3-Act ... Redux
- Honey Don't Bother Mommy, I'm Too Busy with My Blog
- Human Flesh Search Engines in China
- A Typical Friday Afternoon
- "The Ghost Writer" ... New England Noir
- Mountain Tops and Malibu Canyon
- I Loathe Valentine's Day
- "Great kid, don't get cocky!"
- finger on the button ... thank you.
- "The Envelope" ... Please
- "A Single Man" Reviewed
- Malibu ... Getty Villa
- New York State of Mind
- 2009 Movies in Review
Guest Writings
Poetry
Politics
The Column (2009)
- A Longing Fulfilled ...
- Winter Anthem
- The End of Anonymity ... Chrome
- Detroit ... You're Killing Me
- My New Uber-Hip Dang! Branding Co. Philosophy
- Fireflies and Southern Dreams
- Socialism and the Politics of Street Artists
- 1979 ... The Summer Between
- A Baker's Dozen for the Boys
- An Open Letter to "Open Letter" Guy
- An Open Letter to President Barack Obam (No.44)
- One Man's Illicit Penumbra is Another's ...
- Whip It ... Whip It Good
- Code-shifters Unite! "Oh, No You Di'int!"
- My Favorite Liberal Feminist Intellectual
- Throw a Rock: Michael Jackson, Sly Stallone and L.A.
- "If" by Rudyard Kipling (Father's Day 2009)
- Suggested Summer Viewing 2009
- "And You Are There!"
- Audrey Tautou IS Coco Chanel
- Rockin' the Bow Tie ... (Wait, how did I tie this thing?!)
- Summer Anthem
- Little Dragon, Huge Heart
- Oktapodi ... Love is Having 8 Arms to Hug
- Loves Me Some Jazz
- Milton Friedman, "Help us, Obi-Wan Kenobi!"
- Lost "Fountain Pens"
- Vegas, Baby! Burgers, Baby!
- How Much Does an Ostrich Egg Weigh?
- Obey the Obama!
- A Big FatScribe Thanks!
- Comity, Civility, and the Au Courant Liberal Line
- For those Playing at Home
- Wordle of the Day (20 April '09)
- Quote for the Ages
- Life as a 3-Act
- When the Fit Hits the Shan
- Breaking the Fast
- Selling Sex, er, I Mean Food
- Helms Man, Watermelon Man
- Bachelor ... Bad
- Death Takes a Holiday ... Not
- Ex Libris FatScribe
- French but not a Francophile
- Band of Brothers ... the Next Generation
- On My Desk
FatScribe Proverb No. 17
"I'm so very dang insecure about my sinecure." --FatScribe
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Gaffes and the Golden Rue (and other rules)
Photo source: Wikipedia The Golden Rue (Soundcloud) T he Golden (olden) Rule runs something like this: “Do unto others as you’d h...
FatScribe Pull No. 1
"Nature and tyrants abhor a vacuum. And, when this wide-body kleptocracy of Mubarak exits the Sinai Peninsula, I predict we will have radicals entering the vacated public square ready to bring new direction and dictates to the masses that don't have the rights of man on their agendas. I'm afraid that radicalism will replace corruption, and then the West will have both to contend with." -- FatScribe
FatScribe Slight No. 6
Brankton had visions of a rotund Orson Welles with white chef hat in the back somewhere saying that he'd "flip no flapjack before it's time." He also had a vision of smacking the sass off that fat man's face. -- FatScribe
Recent reads ....
- Manhood for Amateurs, Michael Chabon
- The Secret Knowledge, David Mamet
- Under the Dome, Stephen King
- An Object of Beauty, Steve Martin
- More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite, S. Mallaby
- Daemon, D. Suarez
- Hero, M. Korda
- Crucial Conversations, Patterson
- The Little Red Writing Book, B. Royal
- The Professor and the Madman, S. Winchester
- The Ghost, R. Harris
- Ahead of the Curve, PD Broughton
- Reading Like a Writer, F. Prose
- Algebra: The X and Y of Everyday Math, M. Willers
- The Four Agreements, D.M. Ruiz
FatScribe Proverb No.1
"If you don't eat it, or write it, somebody else will." --FatScribe
FatScribe Pull No. 5
"I am curious by nature (though not bi-curious), and love to read everything ... especially what others, much smarter than I, have to say on politics, culture, art, theology or history." -- FatScribe
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FatScribe Proverb No.13
"A large, round belly is a terrible thing to waist." -- FatScribe
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FatScribe Reads & Recommendations
FatScribe Proverb No. 14
"The pen is mightier than the sword, unless of course you're quibbling over a piece of raspberry chocolate cheesecake, then a fork might have the edge." -- FatScribe
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FatScribe Proverb No.7
"To him who haveth it in him to write, and writeth not, to him it is intellectual obesity."
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