“The work is important and mysterious.”–Mark S. (Severance, Season 1, Episode 4)
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Disclaimer: my spouse may dispute one or more of the following claims.
Okay, I may be a Mark S., but I am not severed. I am mysterious and important, though! 😁
A Blog of the Ridiculous and Sublime, by Mark Sackler

“The work is important and mysterious.”–Mark S. (Severance, Season 1, Episode 4)
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Disclaimer: my spouse may dispute one or more of the following claims.
Okay, I may be a Mark S., but I am not severed. I am mysterious and important, though! 😁

“History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”–Mark Twain
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It’s time to start rhyming and get this blog going again.

“First you forget names. Then you forget faces. Then you forget to zip your fly up. Then you forget to zip your fly down.”–George Burns on old age.
And you thought I was dead.

“A rising tide lifts all boats.”–popular stock market axiom
“At low tide, everything stinks.”–my apropos corollary to the above axiom, considering current markets
Need I say more? To all those young meme stock investors out there: welcome to the real world.

“If the technological Singularity can happen, it will.”–Vernor Vinge
Ray Kurzweil might throw a fit over this.

“On Halloween, the parents send their kids out dressed like me.”–Rodney Dangerfield
Poor Rodney. Seventeen years dead and still no respect. Trick or Treat!

“One martini is all right. Two are too many. Three are not enought.”–James Thurber
I could use one right about now.

“The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours..”–TS Elliott
Let’s hope that 2021 is kinder to us all. Calendar, or fiscal.

“I wanted to be clever, but being funny came first. That’s how you know someone is clever. They don’t come out and tell you pi to 13 places – they tell you a joke.”–Ricky Gervais
Happy 3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 …Day.

“A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.”–Groucho Marx
“What the world needs now is more Grouchos and fewer grouches.”–me
Don’t look now, but most annual deductibles for health insurance in the US now cost a lot more than most people made in a year back in Groucho’s day. Indeed, the world needs more Grouchos.
I'm not the most interesting man in the world, but I might have the most cluttered mind.