Eric

“What might be merely embarrassing in real life is made obscene and hostile by TV.”
― Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

“People are pushing, chesting up, there’s much half-assed shoving and garbled smack talk about who dissed who and who crossed whose line and of course everybody’s gotta have their boy’s back. A melee, you’d call it. A fracas. Not quite a throw-down brawl right here on the sacred turf of Texas Stadium.”
― Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

“But the unsettling logic was that he turned fact and fiction upside down, creating a topsy-turvy world in which no one could know who (or what) was play-acting. A corrupt autocracy was all smoke and distorting mirrors. Or, as his Roman biographer summed up, Elagabalus had ‘a fake life’. The magnifying lens of these stories helps us to see clearly the anxieties that surrounded imperial rule at Rome. It was more than the capacity to kill. The power of the emperor stopped at nothing. It warped the senses, and it thrived in malevolent chaos.”
― Mary Beard, Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient World

“I remember attending a Friars roast for Muhammad Ali when Don Rickles grabbed me and walked me up to Sinatra. “Hey, Frank,” he said to the Chairman of the Board, “tonight I’m sitting with this guy. You know why? Because he fills up baseball stadiums! You play bars.” Frank laughed and waved him off, with me standing there silently. Soon”
― Alice Cooper, Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: A Rock 'n' Roller's 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict