“You have to check your messages, Leonard! The leaving of a message is one half of a social contract, which is completed by the checking of the message! If that contract breaks down, then all social contracts break down, and we descend into anarchy!” – Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory: “The Classified Materials Turbulence” (2009)
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” – Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride (1987)
“Entirely in contrast to the popular conception, anarchism is probably the most idealistic and peaceful of political theories. As a philosophy, it assumes a system in which the individual is free and living in peace; it looks forward to a time when human beings can coexist within a framework of voluntary associations.
It is in no sense either Marxist or Leninist; anarchism in fact rejects the Marxist-Leninist theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat, as it rejects any theory involving control of one class or individual by another.” —Tom Burnam in The Dictionary Of Misinformation (p. 7, 1975)
Mystically liberal Virgo enjoys long walks alone in the city at night in the rain with an umbrella and a flask of 10-year-old Laphroaig who strives to live by the maxim, “It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble; it’s what you know that just ain’t so.
I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn, and a college dropout (twice!). Occupationally, I have been a bartender, jewelry engraver, bouncer, landscape artist, and FEMA crew chief following the Great Flood of ’72 (and that was a job that I should never, ever have left).
I am also the final author of the original O’Sullivan Woodside price guides for record collectors and the original author of the Goldmine price guides for record collectors. As such, I was often referred to as the Price Guide Guru, and—as everyone should know—it behooves one to heed the words of a guru. (Unless, of course, you’re the Beatles.)