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 […]
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.
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 […]
Casey At the Splat
Much will be written about baseball for the rest of this season, as it is every season. The most remarkable thing about the sport, this year as every year, however, is not the number of […]
Computer Virus Attack
A computer virus has become lodged in the word processing system of a well-known metropolitan magazine. The virus displaces every kilobyte of memory previously devoted to Nobel-prize winning authors in favor of the work […]
The Conspiracy To Keep Me From Being Published
The American public deserves to know the truth, if anyone can be found to print it. There exists a conspiracy to keep me from being published, a conspiracy beside which Enron would be considered […]