“If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don’t put it there.” Who said it?
Nota Bene #107: Zzzzzzzzzzzzz
by Mike Sheehan on March 6, 2010 in Features, Nota Bene
“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.” Who said it?
Nota Bene #106: [no title due to budget cuts]
by Mike Sheehan on February 26, 2010 in Features, Nota Bene
“Working for a major studio can be like trying to have sex with a porcupine. It’s one prick against thousands.” Who said it?
Nota Bene #105: The Illustrated Dick
by Mike Sheehan on February 21, 2010 in Features, Nota Bene
“When all you are becomes defined as the amount of information traceable to you, what are we then? What have we become, in a world where there is no separation, no door, no filter beyond which we can say, ‘No. This is my personal space. Not yours. Here I am alone with my thoughts and […]
Nota Bene #104: Large Marge Sent Me
by Mike Sheehan on February 13, 2010 in Arts & Literature, Features, Music & Popular Culture, Nota Bene, Science & Technology
“Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.” Who said it?
Nota Bene #103: Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse
by Mike Sheehan on February 9, 2010 in Features, Nota Bene, Science & Technology
“To take people from the music world and give them the same kind of credibility that you give me, Morgan Freeman, Laurence Fishburne, Forest Whitaker—that’s like an aberration. I know there’s some young actor sitting in New York or L.A. who’s spent half of his life learning how to act and sacrificing to learn his […]
Nota Bene #102: Dancing Limbaughs
by Mike Sheehan on February 1, 2010 in Features, Nota Bene
“What they really want to see is, they want you to chop your fucking arm off, hold up your arm, wave it around spewing blood, and believe me, if you did that, the crowd would go fucking ballistic. You only get four good shows like that, though. Four good shows, and then you’re just a […]
Nota Bene #101: Your Pal, Mike S.
by Mike Sheehan on January 27, 2010 in Features, Nota Bene
“The guys who are shooting films now are technically brilliant, but there’s no content in their films. I marvel at what I see and wish I could have done a shot like that. But shots are secondary for my films, and with some of these films, it’s all about the shots. What’s the point? I’m […]
Nota Bene #100: Il Planetario di Figaro
by Mike Sheehan on January 16, 2010 in Features, Nota Bene
Wow, 100 issues of Nota Bene! Props to Russ for helping me for a while with this nifty little S&R feature. Never mind all that now, let’s get on with this issue. “What splendid buildings our architects would be able to execute if only they could finally be less obedient to gravity!” Who said it?
Nota Bene #99: Heed the Peace Gnome
by Mike Sheehan on January 7, 2010 in Features, Nota Bene, Scholars & Rogues
“You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you’ve got music.” Who said it?
Nota Bene #98: A More Glorious Dawn Awaits
by Mike Sheehan on December 31, 2009 in Features, Music & Popular Culture, Nota Bene, Science & Technology
“The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” Who said it?
Nota Bene #97: toDwI'ma' qoS yItIvqu'!
by Mike Sheehan on December 25, 2009 in Features, Nota Bene
“To be truly free, and truly to appreciate its freedom, a society must be literate.”
Nota Bene #96: Saturn's Hexagon and the Bulava Spiral
by Mike Sheehan on December 17, 2009 in Features, Nota Bene, Science & Technology
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
Nota Bene #95: STFU
by Mike Sheehan on December 11, 2009 in Features, Nota Bene
Gonna try something different
Nota Bene #94: Bear Vs. Ninja
by Mike Sheehan on December 3, 2009 in Features, Nota Bene
“Overture, curtain, lights
Nota Bene #93: Linksgiving
by Mike Sheehan on November 26, 2009 in Features, Nota Bene
Welcome to my home

S&R Honors
Click here to learn more about past honorees...- “Where Girls Grow Strong” – and Boy Scouts follow May 24, 2013
- Atheists in heaven? Vatican spin machine leaps into action May 24, 2013
- I-5 bridge collapse: reflecting on our crumbling infrastructure May 23, 2013
- UPDATED: Pope Francis says atheists can go to heaven: Sweet Jesus! The College of Cardinals done elected a hippie May 23, 2013
- Magic Hat vs. West Sixth brewhaha: will MH win the battle that costs them the war? May 23, 2013
- Mystery Unraveled: How a white, moderate, married, churchgoing, middle-class, middle-aged woman could vote for Obama November 8, 2012
- An open letter to Burt Rutan, regarding his WSJ commentary on human-caused climate disruption January 27, 2012
- Meet the men of Match.com: Really, guys, are you serious? January 8, 2013
- Climate scientists still besieged June 8, 2010
- Pelosi on Bush: “He’s not worth impeaching” June 28, 2007
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