knew this but conveniently forgot it all the time whenever they hung out together. Enrique and Justin Trudeau went back a long time. They'd met on the pitches of the Plains of Abra

atop the Enchantress gave him pause as he walked up to the Prescription Drop Off of the Walgreens. The reading this morning had shown this. The next cards had been The Lovers atop

That is when I won the bet. Steve turned his bottle to look at the expiration date and dropped the olive. Cha-Ching! The winners cheered. The losers grumbled about my ruse. All is

Which was not fast at all. The weeks in the cramped cage had taken their toll on his legs. His muscles were atrophied. He'd used them up in jumping through the window. They caught

a sort of armor sometimes. Bad luck comes with opportunity losses as well. You can't inflict leprosy if you've forbid the victim to have flesh. The rub is that nobody was looking.

I call it a waldo contraption. I dabbled in origami in my salad days but I couldn't take the dressing down. My paper planes are never aerodynamic; my paper boats love bottoming out

was busy counting his heads. He was almost to one when the red phone demanded his attention. He put a pin in it and picked up the red phone. "Get me Phyllis Hapless' nose in a tank

But it was the Frosty-the-Snowman giving me & everybody else a snow covered finger. I posted it on InstaFaceChatDenDungeon and it went viral. CNN is parked in front of my saguaro.

I keep forgetting that the outside world is all around me. Even when I find a happy glide. The moment I find it I run it against the outside world. That rail doesn't exist here.

of the buffoon in his bed. The buffoon waved his tiny tiny hands and bolted for the door. He opened the door and there was a Secret Service agent standing there. He was speaking in

I told Spinoza that my fate wasn’t in the hands of an angry god. I would be the Henry Petroski of fermented fish. Title speaks for itself. Garum.

Banks in her infamous Cotton Club kiss with Josephine Baker. Not bad for a vulture, I thought. That scarf was the only thing I had to protect me from the sun & the vultures. Snatch

who knew me when knew what I was about. This wasn't it. My track record with 2nd bassoonists was deep into B# with picatta alegro in 5/13 time. We were in the last bars now. A bone

bloody even. The good won out. It was close though. Some of the losing party tried to reframe their loss as a strategic engagement to consider conditions on the ground. Doubletalk.

There once was a Trojan who lived in a wooden horse. He was an end of the line end of a long line of endings. Never a beginning. Always with the endings. The Trojan had a daughter.

Luthor Martin, aka Pimp Daddy Deluxx, taped his 95 Theses on the Popeye's door. It was closed. Luthor was tired of having to drive all the way over to the In N Out over on Carlton.

lyrics from Twisted Sister songs and Eve sprouts dragon wings, which lift her into the sky. "What have you done, you quack?" Adam asked Pastor Peachfuzz, but fangs have appeared

I just now learned about an AI server Talktotransformer.com which takes your prompt & the AI writes a paragraph or so to it. Looks like AI is going to put me out of work. Meanwhile

Having been the US Envoy to California during the Trump Lame Duck 100 days, Dan Better was no stranger to the wrong end of a burrito. It came as a surprise to no one when he left a

over the coals of my Stradivarius. Russian winters are deep & arrive quickly. It was the promised new Ice Age thanks to Global Warming, Inc. Global Warming was raking it in. To the