Happy Absurdist Halloween
The half-way point of my Sunday bike ride always makes me fear for the future of this great nation of ours. I stop at one of the coffee places that mark the turn-around point of my three […]
Month: October 2021
A Witch’s Work Is Never Done
Halloween is upon us and as usual, it’s cold and windy, nasty and sleety. Terrible weather for taking the old broom out for a ride. Above the roof line, it’s colder than my witch’s heart, […]
Fun Festivals – Cattle Calling Championship
Can’t speak Finnish, but still love to make yourself heard? Alapitka, Finland, puts on the renowned Cattle Calling Championship. Techniques of the champions are closely guarded secrets. However, successful participants tend to know the names […]
Off-Duty Copy Jockeys Say “Pimp My Xerox”
LOS ANGELES. Rodney Gage spends his day hunched over a photocopy machine at a 200-person law firm in Century City. “You wouldn’t believe the crap I have to put up with,” he says as he […]
Ripping the Headlines Today, 10/23/21
Making fun of the headlines today, so you don’t have to The news, even that about Superman being bisexual, doesn’t need to be complicated and confusing; that’s what any new release from Microsoft is for. […]
Bike Gangs Show Sensitive Side With “Baiku”
MAYNARD, Mass. It’s Thursday night at the Sitting Duck Pub, a biker bar in this Massachusetts town of 10,000. A reporter asks Darlene Rivers, a thirty-something woman in a tube top, whether anyone is sitting […]
