Dancing School
You could have knocked me over with a feather. A babysitter announced the other day that she had to hurry home to get ready for dancing school. Dancing school? I almost wondered if I had […]
Author: James Kobak
I am a lawyer, currently general counsel at my firm. I have always had an avocation of writing essays for those increasingly fewer print publications who would accept such things and have had a number of pieces published over the years. My comic novel, Up Front from Behind, is available from Ramble House Press and on Amazon. I also published The Wimp's Guide to Cross-Country Skiing, also available through Amazon.
Donald Trump: Chess Master
Sources report that while hurricanes were ravaging Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, President Trump spent the time in seclusion, deeply immersed in study of the chess strategies of famous champions such as Mikhail Tal, […]
Donald Trump and the Eclipse of the Sun
Donald Trump announced that it is he, not the moon, who will cause a total eclipse of the sun on Monday over Kentucky and much of the United States. “Maybe now Mitch McConnell will come […]
Excerpt from Up Front From Behind by James Kobak, Jr.
We are so happy to bring you an excerpt from the novel Up Front From Behind from HO’s James Kobak – Donna Cavanagh Book description: A rollicking satire of the stresses, hypocrisies and personality […]
Excerpt from HO’s James Kobak: The Wimp’s Guide to Cross-Country Skiing
If HO has one thing it’s a plethora of attorney writers–or is it writer attorneys? I think we should start our own law firm: Laughing with Lawyers. What do you all think? […]
Christmas, Circa 1980
It is 4:15 A.M. on Christmas morning. Daddy is sprawled on the living room floor with his mouth open, a posture that suggests a bear rug that has been through the washing machine. Daddy […]
Break Up Steve Martin
While the U.S. and European Union antitrust authorities have been concentrating their attention first on Microsoft and more recently Google, a much more insidious monopoly has been threatening the world: Steve Martin. Steve Martin […]
After the Beep
You have no new messages. You have 10,763 old messages. Your oldest message slightly post-dates the Big Bang. You have asked for this message to be deleted because of its noise. To listen to […]
The Olympics
I thought I would bring the public up to date on the Olympics. The real Olympics –the spectator’s televised Olympics. My wife took the gold medal for talking back to conceited athletes. She won a […]