Month: July 2025
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Around the Nation, if We Still Have One by William M. McIntosh
Colorado reports an uptick in the number of non-skiers who currently identify as skiers.
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MUNGO by Theodore Wallbanger
The best part of living in Machismo’s world was the exclusion of mundane chimmy chatter tethered into some relationship roman candle featurettes.
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Upcoming Movie: ‘Potato’
Yet the film does portray, in gritty existential realism and stark but heartbreaking beauty, potato.
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The Wings of Fate by Antoine Bargel
My dear friend Tupelow, gambling life and limb in the vacuous hope to attain, through this only possible instrument, a happiness beyond measure.
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My Parents Took Me to a Comic Convention and Pissed Away My College Tuition by Jesper Soerensen
I’m aware of the hand I have been dealt, and I play it to my best advantage. Hence, my dismay at being dragged to a tragicomic convention. It’s just not on brand.
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Robinson Crusoe Maybe by Colin Gee
Definitely not Robinson Crusoe, peer instead into the gluttony, cowardice and mendacity of Robinson Crusoe Maybe.
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An Important Inflight Announcement by Jeff Kennedy
All carry-ons will now be stapled to the wings for your convenience and safety.
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Cast Away by James Callan
We high-fived our mutual stance, our joint assessment: marriage isn’t for us.
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The One in Which I Punch Ocean Vuong in the Face by Damon Hubbs
because we’re in Amherst before I punched Ocean Vuong in the face we ran into Robert Frost.
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A Real Porker and 2 more by Tim Kahl
Think of all those culinary delights headed for the heartland: Abgoosht, Tevapi, Dalcha, Jamalah, Khorkhog, Macon, Mixiote, Drob, Pinnekjøff, Paomo, Sajji, Navarin, Wazwan.
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The Unbecoming of Metaphor: Book Review by Hugh Blanton
Imprecise metaphor can, and should, be a delight, but in the hands of an unskilled writer it goes beyond imprecise to downright wrong.
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THEY STAB IT WITH THEIR STEELY KNIVES, BUT THEY JUST CAN’T KILL THE BEAST, BROTHER ETHERNAN
A Mercedes-Benz in the context of the Birds of Prey song is a fancy German four-horse carriage with lots of chrome on its exterior.
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The Theme of the Week is 404 Not Found
Ask yourself, is Melanie the kind of poet who would be permalinking where she shouldn’t have been a-permalinking?
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Cave Folk by James Callan
In addition to the skull cult, there is the bear cult; the vulture cult; the cannibal cult; the horse head cult; the meat cult; fire cult; sex cult; serpent cult; blonde woman cult; the seven-breasted rhino cult.
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Meat Lovers by Benjamin Drevlow
Armin Meiwes, sent to prison for killing and cannibalizing Berndt Brandes, a man from Berlin who had posted an ad on a cannibal website looking for a man to eat him alive.
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3 new poems by Donna Dallas
what became of her guitar her marigold sweater with the deep pockets that held her Marlboros
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MAN GETS SUNSCREEN IN MOUTH, MAYONNAISE IN EYE
He was licking his fingers and then he realized what had happened.
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Master Artworks in COVID Times by Donald Patten
Donald Patten is an artist and cartoonist from Belfast, Maine.
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Bonus Round by Peter Gutiérrez
Hager would demur by explaining that he wasn’t ‘good at trivia,’ but rather was ‘just old.’
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Roadwork Ahead by William P Adams
‘City fella in a fancy German ride. Shot me some attitude, too, after I shut his ass down with the stop pole. Over.’
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TAKEAWAY COFFEE AND 10 OTHER HILARIOUS PHRASES THAT MAKE BRITISH PEOPLE SOUND LIKE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN MEN
Shag: similar to muff, an old-fashioned hand-warmer, like a scarf for the hands.
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seed by Theodore Wallbanger
My spirit factory shut down in grade school when I witnessed how diabolically evil humans could be to one another
