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Jul.30.2009
OK, "Elvis" is a little British kid, and he recently posted on YouTube that he can't make himself read Of Mice and Men. Class assignment. He's really heartfelt about not liking reading at all.
Check out what he has to say:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ku0ITm_MgU
You're back? Traumatic, right? ...
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Jul.29.2009
Today our subject is armrest etiquette on airplanes. If you are on the aisle you can lean on the armrest closest to the aisle and flirt with attractive people. If you are on the seat near the window you can watch for gremlins on the plane wing. But if you see one during the course of the flight do...
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Jul.29.2009
Latest Storyheart and Across the Pond News Across the Pond is a YA, teen, romance or what ever you like to call it book for the young and young at heart.
Over the past few weeks I have been lucky enough to have interviews and reviews posted at all sorts of blogs and locations, about myself and my...
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Jul.28.2009
July 28
JUXTAPOSITION
Right next to this world is the globe that I came from. The landmarks are similar but these spheres have little in common. The angle of refraction illuminates the place of my origin. The source of this light is legend. On my home planet, the existence of sobriety is...
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Jul.27.2009
The blues. Everyone gets ‘em. They are much worse than the pinks, much more common then the violets, and much more serious than the greens. Law enforcement officers get the blues, and so do Harvard professors (just to pick two random groups). Poor people get the blues; rich people get ‘em; and...
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Jul.27.2009
July 27
GRAFT
The bottom has been cut out, my underpinnings stripped from me. Budding ambition whittled down, transplanted, saddled onto the rock like stock of other people’s sobriety. Taped to the leg of my sponsor I heal and grow. I splice my thinking with the rich ideas of improved...
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Jul.26.2009
The following is a humorous shard of gimcrackery I wrote in the late 1990s for an e-mail column I had then. A recent review showed it still had the capacity to cause the heart to trip with laughter. I’ve updated it with photos and a little tweaking. And I do apologize to the Senator in question:...
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Jul.24.2009
Here in America, it isn’t only the young people who attend Harvard who do well—those who go to Yale and Stanford do pretty good, too.
Me, I went to public school. That’s why I write in this Brooklyn accent. I am a proud graduate of the State University of New York at Purchase, though admittedly...
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Jul.24.2009
July 24
WAKE
Don’t worry that you might spoil the procession by getting out of your coffin. You don’t need to lie there waiting for the lid to close. People will walk past saying, “so sad,” and “too bad,” but don’t lie in state to keep them from feeling their trip was a waste. Just because...
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Jul.23.2009
The Single Prayer Plan: Please god, don’t let me get sick.
Let’s all pull up our camp chairs around the fire and tell our scariest health care stories: the friend who couldn’t afford her thyroid medication and permanently damaged her eyes; the friend who needed a hip replacement and got caught in...
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