Everyone’s favorite person in the world and his own greatest fan, my sister’s husband Liam from Nashville, was so grandiloquent and pompous at the Memorial Day picnic that he appeared to attract his own planet.
Month: May 2021
IF ‘CRY ME A RHUBARD’ IS NOT THE RIGHT EXPRESSION, YOU CAN CALL ME A LAWYER
An unknown local software engineer (it was Phil) used the following words to bring a succinct end to what had been an ongoing carpool argument with coworker Dave Thompson. Dave would later call Robussen Robussen […]
WAIT DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD BEFORE THE EGG OR
Ready and willing to solve the age-old question about what crossed the road first, the chicken or the egg, local smoke shop co-founders Luis Fernandez and Toby Joe spent another evening in on the floor […]
YOU ARE GOING TO WISH YOU HAD ALWAYS READ JANE AUSTEN IN A FLEECY FLYBREEZE® HAMMOCK
Testimonial from Sue in Peoria: Yeah, when my hubby and I first tried reading Jane Austen in the Fleecy Flybreeze® it was so different. It was like having Darcy’s arms around you, soft and fleecy […]
YOUTH HOSTEL DIRECTOR ALSO QUITE HOSTILE
What began with forced smiles and slightly insulting comments about this being your first time in Bucharest, continued with snide wisecracks in Romanian over beers on the hostel porch at your expense, and finally openly […]
Classic Gorko #3
THE HAPPY ISSUE, sometime in 1996
BEEF STROGANOFF BAKE OFF ENDS IN HEATED EXCHANGE
Church council members had to intervene at this week’s thirteenth annual Mount of Olives Beef Stroganoff Bake Off as Linda and Tammy faced off over alleged subordination of bake off jurors. The blue ribbon this […]
MAN GETS SUNSCREEN IN MOUTH, MAYONNAISE IN EYE
‘It was a hard day for Toby at the beach,’ admitted his sister Charlie as the family trudged back to their rented cabin, Toby of course stomping on ahead. He had gotten sunscreen in his […]
‘in the sad bin of dusters be’
One of the angriest members of Los Decepcionados, f. f. francés led a truly checkered life as poet, revolutionary, and renegado.