The Place to Take a Humor Break
The bus is still your best transportation value, especially with airfares “sky high”–pun intended! Unfortunately, many Americans are woefully ignorant of the “unwritten rules” of the road when it comes to bus travel–but the Bus […]
NORGZDUK, Freedonia. Fans of Freedonian folk music were in mourning this morning as church bells rang out over the town square in this, ground zero of Freedonia’s “Bohemian” culture. “He was the hope of our […]
Do you wake up early just because you miss your favorite Peace Cereal product? Do you ever wish lunch or dinner was really a big bowl of Peace Cereal? Do you have a pet named […]
WORCESTER, Mass. Richard “Richie” Guertin is a shift manager at a fast-food restaurant along Interstate 290 in this, the second largest city in New England, a role he says translates to that of the proverbial […]
SHREWSBURY, Mass. Pamela Wykoff hates hospitals but that’s okay, because as a professor of English at Colburn College here she doesn’t have to get near one for her job. “I hate how they put you […]
Like many people, I’m getting older by the minute. I’m not going to tell you how old I am, but to keep things in perspective, I remind myself that when Shakespeare was my age he’d […]
In a line much admired by Jorge Luis Borges, Christopher Marlowe’s Faust says to the apparition of Helen of Troy “make me immortal with a kiss.” I’ve got the opposite capacity–I am the poetic kiss […]
As I tilted back my chair for a better view of the ceiling in the windowless office I occupy at the Mass. Department of Abandoned Property, I couldn’t help but contemplate how far I–Mike Sheetz–had […]
ROXBURY, Mass. Schuyler Colfax III is a member of minority group whose reputation has been sullied by the boorish habits of its less reputable members, and he struggles against the stereotypes that have resulted. “I’m […]
WESTLAND, Mass. It’s Sunday night, and three women are sitting at a bartop table at the Coach ‘n Squire, the local faux-colonial watering hole in this western suburb of Boston. A man from an adjacent […]