Here's a dose of post-Black Friday images to help scour the horrible event out of your mind.

Concept sketches by Butch Adams for a story I had written around ten years ago wherein Santa and the Tooth Fairy team up with the Boogyman to save the world.

Adjectives

“Adjectives are frequently the greatest enemy of the substantive.”

- Voltaire

“[I was taught] to distrust adjectives as I would later learn to distrust certain people in certain situations.”
- Ernest Hemingway

“The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.”
- Clifton Paul Fadiman

“When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don’t mean utterly, but kill most of them — then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when close together. They give strength when they are wide apart.”
- Mark Twain

“The road to hell is paved with adjectives.”
- Stephen King

“[The adjective] is the one part of speech first seized upon and worked to death by novices and inferior writers.”
- J.I. Rodale

“Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.”
- Ezra Pound

“The adjective has not been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.”
- E.B. White

“[Whoever writes in English] is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective.”
- George Orwell

“Most adjectives are also unnecessary. Like adverbs, they are sprinkled into sentences by writers who don’t stop to think that the concept is already in the noun.”
- William Zissner

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