archy

Chops and props to anyone who can tell me who "archy" is named after.

January 2004 2004

By Don Marquis, in "archy and mehitabel," 1927 well boss i saw mehitabel the cat the other day and she was looking a little thin and haggard with a limp in the hind leg on the starboard side old feline animal i said how is tricks still in the ring archy she said and still a lady in spite of h dash double l always jolly archy she said in spite of hard luck toujors gai is the word archy toujours gai how did you get the game leg mehitabel i asked her alas she said it is due to the treachery of one of these social swells who is sure one bad actor he was a fussed up cat with a bell around his neck on a ribbon and the look about him of

why mehitabel jumped 1927

All Facts and Opinions on the small losses in Lebanon. archy is in pursuit of the wiley wooly mammoth clone.

July 2006 2006

Natalie promotes the music of Neil Young. archy is loaded for bear.

August 2006 2006

And jammin '. archy thinks there's an agenda behind a conspiracy theory.

August 2006 2006

All Facts and Opinions has an interview with the other man running in the Pennsylvania Senate Primary, Chuck Pennachio. archy is looking for suggestions for a new license plate slogan for Idaho.

March 2006 2006

Natalie at All Facts and Opinions could just spit. archy is outraged at the new head of the EPA.

March 2005 2005

And Then ... wants to draft Bruce Springsteen for a concert. archy is saddened by the fact that the Senate has to pass a resolution saying the U.S. is opposed to torture.

June 2004 2004

"Give it the benefit of the doubt," says the Dalai Lama, but archy is sanguine -- it seems reasonable said i there is a snow slide over it every twenty minutes

Christopher Morley writes about Don Marquis 1937

I think for instance of the superb bit of Shakespearean criticism ( "The Parrot of Shakespeare" in archy and mehitabel) which is still far too little known.

Christopher Morley writes about Don Marquis 1937