First Looks category archive

George Burns:

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Frances Burney:

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

Out of town family is no longer in town.

Normal insanity will resume shortly.

Grace Slick:

Man is the only animal that knows he’s going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy.

Frank Zappa:

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

We’re beachin’ it.

Douglas Adams:

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

For the next few days. Out of town family is now in town.

Raymond Chandler:

It is not a fragrant world.

T. E. Lawrence:

It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also then you will not go mad yourself.

Now on Tuesdays for Norfolk (still Thursdays for Virginia Beach) to make it easier for persons with commitments on either day to catch at least one per month.

Drinking Liberally is a gathering place for liberals. Socialize and laugh in a friendly atmosphere.

When: 6 p., Tuesday, June 11.

Where:
Lola’s Caribbean Restaurant
328 W 20th St (map)

Details here. Meetup page here.

Edgar Degas:

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

Amelia Earhart:

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

Break time.

John Cleese:

When people say ‘I’m not a prude, but …’ what they mean is ‘I am a prude, and …’.

I have spent several pleasant vacations at Wildwood.

Wildwood has a great beach and is proudly tacky, and it carries off tacky quite stylishly, thank you.

In fact, Virginia Beach could do with a little more Wildwood in its DNA.

My Wildwood Days weren’t like this.

Bennett Cerf:

There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren’t watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.

Phyllis Diller:

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

I used to work at 20th and Market and walked by this place on the way to the choo-choo.

Joseph Conrad:

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.