The Place to Take a Humor Break
CONCORD, New Hampshire. In this most conservative of the New England states, residents pride themselves on their flinty self-reliance and a first-in-the-nation presidential primary, which brings added revenues to local merchants when political reporters arrive in […]
I only know one person who is smart, has no fear of nuns and understands how magnets work and he’s not staring back at me in this mirror. Having said that, I did recently make […]
DORCHESTER, Boston. It’s Sunday so banks are closed across the country, but one lender continues to do a brisk business on the day of rest in this predominantly Irish neighborhood of Boston. “I’m always open,” […]
It is one of the most difficult problems of aesthetic philosophy: What do we mean when we say that a song or poem is sad? I’ve read Aristotle, Kant, Croce–Benedetto, not Jim–all the big names. As […]
There once was a man, and he had a wife; each plotted to take the other one’s life because they shared, to the point of addiction, a love for crime and detective fiction. “If I […]
What’s your favorite horrible holiday childhood memory? One of my cherished unpleasant flashbacks arrive every year during Thanksgiving. First, a few facts: I was born a few days after Thanksgiving Day in 1961. At birth, I weighed […]
