Laughing Matters
by | Jun 7, 2024

This stinks. I think they keep all the customers who died of starvation with their elbows glued to the bar forever, in sickness and in health, at lunch and at dinner, in the storeroom behind the door at the end…

by | Jun 4, 2024

Political campaigns are governed by the principle of action and reaction. Most political consultants give full importance to action and completely forget about reaction. While it is important to be the first to hit the opponent, it is even more…

by | May 31, 2024

As a boat skipper, I hate being told what to do on board. The girls started screaming at me that if I accelerated too fast, our towels would fall into the sea. The guys were howling and beating their chests….

by | May 24, 2024

It was perfect. We had a blue VW Vanagon with white daisies, girlfriends with very long, very tangled, very blonde hair, and a dense cloud of marijuana floating above. We would strum the guitar insistently singing Lennon stuff, and, in…

by | May 18, 2024

He was right in front of me and had a head bigger than Trump’s balls. He moved around a lot, like he had a scorpion crawling up his leg, and when the song was over and we were clapping for…

by | May 10, 2024

There have always been idiots. I write this with a trace of nostalgia. Some of them have been illustrious, worthy of admiration. Throughout the centuries and cultures, they have played a central role in history. Sometimes they show you the…

by | May 3, 2024

It won’t start. I got in the car and it won’t start. Poof-poof-poof. That’s all this pile of junk on wheels has to say for itself when I put the key in the ignition. It’s eight o’clock in the morning….

by | Apr 19, 2024

Days of sun, days of writing on the beach. Days of getting pissed off with everyday things. Let’s see. Manufacturers enjoy testing our patience. That is the only explanation for how the more slippery the contents of a cosmetic product…

by | Apr 16, 2024

With the spring heat and summer closing in comes a time of excesses, unpleasant brushing against male bodies, shortness of air, and unbridled alcohol consumption. All of these are offensive to the stylish drinker. Communal drunkenness is to be shunned….

by | Apr 14, 2024

One day in the 00s, as a struggling Hollywood screenwriter like Fitzgerald’s Pat Hobby, I decided to earn some money playing a courtroom spectator on Judge Judy, a show I’d never watched. They sat me in the second row, making…

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