I’m preoccupied with self-defeating utterances (e.g., “These English words assert nothing.”), so this little fortune’s going on the Corkboard of Irony

4? Tries to make you smile the way your bittersweetly truthy satirical stream makes everyone else smile

Those bureaucratic impediments you envision? Tornado in a trailer park….

He’s so underrated as a portraitist

Best use of Bolero in a sporting event goes to legendary ice dancers Torville & Dean, whose winning performance in the 1984 Olympics violated a rule requiring a tempo change, which Bolero lacks, and avoiding running long by starting with 18 seconds of skates-off-the-ice:

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Sometimes you have to bat the hard five.