Category: how to win the lottery

tell me about a complicated man. / muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost / when he had wrecked the holy town of troy, / and where he went, and who he met, the pain / he suffered in the storms at sea, and how / he worked to save his life and bring his men / back home. he failed to keep them safe; poor fools, / they ate the sun god’s cattle, and the god / kept them from home. now goddess, child of zeus, / tell the old story for our modern times. / find the beginning.

we’re returning to a familiar well.

… and where i ran into walter rhodes, a total canadian, whom i haven’t seen since exeter and who also, like mcdermott, reeked of xeryus, and i actually told him, “listen, i’m trying to stay away from people. i’m avoiding even speaking to them,” and then i asked to be excused. only slightly stunned, walter said, “uh, sure, i, um, understand.”

“anyhow he gives large parties,” said jordan, changing the subject with an urbane distaste for the concrete. “and i like large parties. they’re so intimate. at small parties there isn’t any privacy.”

yes, we’re still the world’s most patriotic podcast.

won’t do what a man wants/likes— this is how i steal him away!