Roy Blount, Jr.
Roy Blount, Jr.
Roy Alton Blount Jr.is an American writer, speaker, reporter, and humorist. He appeared as himself in Treme. He performs with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a rock band composed entirely of writers. He is also a former president of the Authors Guild...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth4 October 1941
CountryUnited States of America
men numbers legendary
The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.
broccoli groceries locals
The local groceries are all out of broccoli, loccoli.
delight doe playfulness
Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.
should-have giving advice
Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.
atlanta void form
In the beginning, Atlanta was without form, and void; and it still is.
weed thinking solitary
I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.
summer dostoyevsky persons
Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.
school college italian
I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by far the most words in it of any other language. Our money might not be worth anything anymore, but the language is.
dog cat eye
A dog will make eye contact. A cat will, too, but a cat's eyes don't even look entirely warm-blooded to me, whereas a dog's eyes look human except less guarded. A dog will look at you as if to say, "What do you want me to do for you? I'll do anything for you." Whether a dog can in fact, do anything for you if you don't have sheep (I never have) is another matter. The dog is willing.
bookstores innocent pleasure
An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.
real eggplant squash
I am open to the accusation that I see compost as an end it itself. But we do grow some real red damn tomatoes such as you can't get in the stores. And potatoes, beans, lettuce, collards, onions, squash, cauliflower, eggplant, carrots, peppers. Dirt in you own backyard, producing things you eat. Makes you wonder.
mother ears public-relations
Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations firm engaged by Van Gogh's dealer.
blue gnarly enemy
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.
people want lasts
I do not Twitter. I don't want to Twitter, and I don't see any point in Twittering. The last thing I want to do is tell people what I'm doing at the moment because I'm probably not doing what I'm supposed to be doing.