Reading Potato Books for Your Pink Flamingo
September is a month dedicated to reading. I’m not sure why. Reading months should be in the dead of winter, when it’s too cold to do anything but curl up on the couch under a […]
Tag: literature
What Could Happen If …
The Harry Potter Universe is a wide one. Although Harry has now vanquished Lord Voldemort and his evil followers (with the help of a lot of extraordinary people who are fluent in magic), the story […]
Corporate Naming Rights for Great Works of Literature
Corporate Naming Rights for Great Works of Literature National Parks, sports venues, you name it — a corporation has its name on it. So, c’mon, stuffy world of literature, get off your high horse, and […]
The Fart Primer
Our schools teach us how to solve quadratic equations. Our schools teach us how to compose essays on 19th-century English literature. They do not teach real-life survival skills. Specifically, they do not point out what […]
Iraqi Wheat Pudding and Fruit-Flavored Condoms
Iraqi Dessert MA’MOUNIA (wheat pudding) INGREDIENTS 3 cups water 1¼ cups sugar ½ teaspoon lemon juice ⅓ cup unsalted butter or regular butter ¾ cups semolina or whole wheat flour ½ tablespoon orange blossom water […]
HumorOutcasts Radio – Interview with Concha Alborg
Concha Alborg was born in Spain during the difficult years after the Spanish Civil War and went to school in Madrid until she emigrated with her parents to the United States, where she finished high […]
Chocolate and Vanilla Sundae
American Dessert CHOCOLATE AND VANILLA SUNDAE INGREDIENTS 3/4 cup whipping cream 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/3 cup unsalted peanuts (or already ground) 2 pints chocolate ice cream 2 pints vanilla […]
Between the Lines Again
CLASSIC LITERARY QUOTES Here is a little lesson for my fellow writers. I know some of you are familiar with the subject matter that we will cover here. For those of you who, up until […]
More Terrible Than Fiction: A Work in Progress
Kara Vallow has been adding to this post for a long time. Her newest character: John Boehner. With politics the way it is, I am sure we have not seen the end of this entertaining […]
Nobody Loves Humor Writers
To the Literary Set, humor writers are one step above greeting card poets in the literature hierarchy. We are categorized as next-to-lowest of the low, among the dregs of the literary world. I’m not making […]