Cartoon: Wait Until You See The Ballroom
Artist: Dan McConnell Written by: Paul Lander
The Incredible Shrinking Man II: Still Alive and Shrinking
A little more than a decade ago, I published in this hallowed part of cyberspace an article titled The Incredible Shrinking Man, which famously went on to capture the coveted FIFA Gold Trophy for Literature. […]
Scooter & Skipper Blow Things Up!
It’s Saturday, my day to take the kids so my wife can have a break. She deserves it; Pilates, or yoga, or ballet, something to help her open the floodgates of the reservoir of stress […]
For One Writing Coach, “Wranting” Doesn’t Cut It
SOMERVILLE, Mass. Maggie Turbek is a writing coach who learned the hard way the perils of caring too much. “I turned in a magazine article a day late because I wasted a whole Sunday on a nuclear […]
Ripping the Headlines Today, 5/15/26
Making fun of the headlines today, so you don’t have to The news, even that about cruise ship pirates, doesn’t need to be complicated or confusing; that’s what any new release from Microsoft is for. […]
Notarizing the World’s Largest Malted Milk Ball
In 1977, the creator of the world’s largest malted milk ball had it notarized. The Boston Globe I have to admit, many years after the fact, my mom was wrong. “Get your notary license, it’s […]
