Avant-Garde Feline Lit 101
As he descended into paranoia at the end of his life, poet Delmore Schwartz sent telegrams to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, harassed friends on the phone, and left a stray cat at […]
As he descended into paranoia at the end of his life, poet Delmore Schwartz sent telegrams to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, harassed friends on the phone, and left a stray cat at […]
BECKET, Mass. This sleepy western Massachusetts town is home to St. Judith College, the only institution of higher learning in the world named after the patron saint of cats, but that’s not the explanation for […]
Pope Francis Shuts Down the Cafeteria. Headline, The Wall Street Journal I was walking to Sacred Heart School (motto: “The Fear of the Nuns is the Beginning of Wisdom”) and as usual I stopped by […]
BOSTON. The Boston Marathon, the world’s oldest, attracts runners from around the world every Patriot’s Day, a holiday on the third Monday in April that serves as an excuse for local bureaucrats to take the […]
WESTLAND, Mass. The Boston Marathon, the nation’s oldest, is today, so the weekend before would normally be a time of high anticipation for Nicole Stansler, who’ll be running in her fifteenth such event. “I always […]
LEXINGTON, Mass. Tom Sholes is a certified public accountant and a certifiable golf nut for whom the first full week of April is a holy season. “During the Masters, I don’t want to be bothered […]
HOPKINTON, Mass. The rows of portable toilets that line the streets of this bucolic suburb in preparation for the Boston Marathon see heavy duty just before the starter’s gun goes off as runners nervously empty […]
Oh and dont let me tell u about TAXES! Did you know that it is NOT a law that you HAVE TO PAY TAXES? Wow..hold up..droppin 2 much knowledge.” Twitter tweet from “professional bisexual” Tila […]
For me, the weekends are the hardest. Not because I’m lonely, like Charlie Rich, who sang that he made it all right from Monday morning to Friday night, but oh–those lonely weekends. Charlie Rich on […]
WASHINGTON, Missouri. This town of 14,000 on the banks of the Missouri River is known as the “Corncob Pipe Capital of the World,” a distinction that draws smokers from around the world to the Missouri […]