A Cookbook For Squares
A Cookbook For Squares An amazing amount of food is round. Are there other shapes allowed in cooking? Yes, I’m glad you asked. Just in time for early, early Christmans shopping is the cookbook: […]
Tag: Christmas
NORAD (North American Defense) Tracks Santa
https://www.noradsanta.org/en/map As of press time, Santa Claus was delivering presents over Tibet. How do we know this? NORAD (North American Defense) tell us . Why does NORAD do this? The official explanation (see below) is […]
This Bear’s Repeating
Artwork by Lauren Faulkenberry. Idea/text by Bill Spencer. (Bill Spencer is author of Uranus Is Always Funny: Short Essays to Make You Laugh Lauren Faulkenberry is a novelist and illustrator living in western North Carolina. Originally […]
A Crappy New Parody Christmas Song
Last year I was inspired to write a parody holiday season song, and this year it appears I still haven’t learned my lesson. Again, I can’t imagine anyone who’s not in the emergency services will […]
The Perfect Metaphor for a COVID Christmas
It started with a garage sale a few months ago. My wife is always on the lookout for ‘vintage’ items (however you define the term) since getting her mid-mod groove on a while back. Lamps […]
I Simplify Solitaire
How many times has this happened to you? You’ve spent the Christmas bonus on a week-long vacation on the sun-lit beaches of Hawaii. You’re up earlier than your spouse, rather earlier as you’re just […]
Tis the Season … for 911
I don’t know if anyone who’s not in the emergency services will fully appreciate this, but what the heck. I wrote some new lyrics to the Christmas song “Deck the Halls”, and it’s dedicated to […]
Doh! Tannenbaum…
It’s time to put up the tree again. I know this because my wife has been dropping those subtle hints for a few days now – watching Bing and Danny and Rosemary and Vera on […]