GREAT WRITES AND WRONGS By Tommy Clarkson Last month, I wrote of James Thurber whose birthday, December 8th, was one day before mine. Well, F.T. Eyre has – once again – reminded me of yet another humorist writer whose works, as well as his last name, are singularly “Brilliant” – Ashleigh Ellwood generally precedes […]
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WHO WAS SHE—AND WHY THE SONG? By Bob Tennison Last night I heard an old recording by Lena Horne about “A Ms Otis regretting she would not be able to dine today.” As Pago would have questioned, “Who in the blue-eyed world was Ms Otis and why was she so important that the song
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THE TILLY & TOMMY REPORT By Anonymous Contributor In 2003, police in Warwickshire, England, opened a garden shed and found a whimpering, cowering dog. The dog had been locked in the shed and abandoned. It was dirty and malnourished, and had quite clearly been abused. In an act of kindness, the police took the
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SIMPLE TRUTHS Will Rogers, who died in a 1935 plane crash with his best friend, Wylie Post, was probably the greatest political sage the US ever has known. Enjoy the following: 1. Never slap a man who’s chewing tobacco. 2. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. 3. There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither
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Notes from San Blas By William Haydon The Cracked Tiles Of San Blas I have lived in Mexico for well over a year now. I have experienced Mexican weather through good seasons and bad. From virtual non-existence, my Spanish language skills have progressed to a sort of primitive fluency. I have eaten bad chorizo
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HAROLD RUSSELL –The Best Years of His Life By Roderick MacDonald In late 1944, as the Second World War was struggling to a close, the legendary film producer Samuel Goldwyn was inspired to make a movie that would tell the story of returning service veterans trying to adjust to civilian life. Goldwyn hired former
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CUTTER ANT APOCALYPSE! By Ed Tasca Our garden, a lovely house-front apron of flowering plants, shrubs and fruit trees, has been under siege by cutter ants, with no hope of a diplomatic settlement. They’ve been turning new and old-growth vegetation into confetti for weeks and carrying it through endless parades over my garden day
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AS THE TACO TURNS (And takes the world with it) By Beth Berube There is a store in Seattle called Chicos. Their clothes buyers have a brilliant philosophy. If a woman wears an off the rack size eight at every other store, she can try on a frock at Chicos in a size two. Voila!
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My Sex Life As A Fire Hydrant By Jeremy Monroe One day I became a fire hydrant. Sounds odd I suppose, but really not so different from Gregory Samsa.l Surprising, yes, but less disgusting. And, we never learned about Gregor’s sex life as a bug. Probably we had preconceived ideas about that too. My
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Maggie and the Hot Sheets Motel By Roberta Rich Driving three thousand kilometres from Vancouver to Colima, Mexico with Maggie is an unalloyed pleasure- except for one thing. She is seven years old now, placid, sedate, the doggy equivalent of late middle age, kind of like us. She has her bed in the back
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