Status Updates From Swashbucklers

"Why did he often find himself lying to his son to get out of answering a perfectly reasonable question. I don’t have the energy for the technicalities of a discussion that could spawn a thousand more questions and last forever, came the well-worn reply from his brain."

Actually a rather appropriate follow-up to the heartbreakingly brilliant Pinfeathers.

The treadmill just keeps going. And if it’s smeared with crap you don’t get a chance to step off for a moment and clean everything up… you just have to keep running, getting messier and messier, until you are only age and shit, and there is nothing else left of the person you used to be.

"All those classic 80s movies had led him wrong for so long. Saving the day wasn’t always met with a happy, heroic ending for the teenagers, before the credits played out to some great power ballad."

I knew I had been saving this one for a reason. Hanks needs to publish his next book soon.