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Ladies and Gentleman, we apologize for that lenghty digression on the sexual proclivities of Osama Bin Laden and West Texas farmhands. The author, upon reading that a fatwa by fifteen mullahs throughout the Islamic world, and a lynch mob has been assembled in Denton, has…
can’t there be a sense of positivity
that’s not sold the way soap is sold?
You learn a lot of things when you have a garage sale. Linda and I held a garage sale Saturday with our tenants Andy and Christine. We one once every three or four years. It usually takes me that long to want to go through…
“Funny, funny Jude. You play with little pieces all day long, and you know what? You’ll live to be an old, old man someday. And here I am.”
–Janis Joplin
At school we can’t say bad words. When someone says a bad word, other kids say Aw you said a bad word! And then tell the teacher. I get tired of that. I say Hey listen sometimes you just have to say a bad word….
How he made it across Coburn Mountain Road remains a mystery. By the time I saw Suicide Squirrel, I’d already kind of written him off. In the split-second it had taken me to see him and plot his trajectory, I’d come to the conclusion Suicide Squirrel was a goner.
The Last Temptation of Osama Bin Laden Day V This is the final installment of the special report from the Intercontinental Radio News. At 10:49 am, an un-named official in Washington confirmed that terrorist Osama Bin Laden had finally cracked under interrogation. Despite the flagrant…
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Gabby a girl in my gymnastics class said you can’t be my friend if you don’t talk more. I’m a thinker not a talker. I like to listen to what people say and sometimes I write it down. But I don’t hear people if they…
This may or may not be news to anyone here, but it was news to me. At last night’s Chicago screening of his documentary film, “The Big Uneasy,” during the Q&A after the movie, Harry Shearer provided more detail regarding something he’s been tweeting about…
I love this nationwide wailing and gnashing of teeth about the heat.
I grew up in the Deep South, so I earned my hot-weather badge at an early age. Now the rest of the country is in a sweaty panic because it’s hot in June.
In my Mississippi hometown, there was no such thing as a June heat wave. We had one heat wave every year, and it lasted from May to October.