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The Door Knob

by Alfred Guy October 31, 2014

If you’ve read my previous personal ghost story, you may remember my cousin, Johnny. This story also involves him. The events in this story were frightening. This is best read alone and at night.

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Me and Ray Manzarek – RIP

by Richard B. Phillips May 22, 2013

I was seven years old when I first discovered The Doors. I was visiting my sister’s new house in Bethesda, Maryland one summer. I was with my parents. I was bored and had nothing to do so I poked around through her cassette collection that was still in boxes from when she moved in. And […]

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Funny Stuff at the Outhouse – My Life in Midwest Punk Rock

by Ben Easher April 2, 2013

Though my parents were from the East Coast and have since retired there, my father got his first and only job in Springfield, Missouri when I was one year old. For a while, he had continued to seek employment elsewhere, but we were still there when I was graduating high school at seventeen. Though medium-sized, […]

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Reflections on Black History Month

by Harvey Asher, Ph.D. March 26, 2013

In a February syndicated column, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cynthia Tucker called for an end to Black History Month. Separating black history from America history, she said, minimizes “the myriad ways in which black Americans’ accomplishments are part of the national mosaic [by making] the contributions of a few well-known black men and women seem like […]

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The Luck of the Irish

by Jim Coughlin March 16, 2013

In the fourth grade, I became a collector of four-leaf clovers. Word had gotten to me that Dyan Ortbal, a fellow fourth grader, had found a four-leaf clover. Suddenly, finding four-leaf clovers was something I could possibly do. I suppose if a kid from my neighborhood had made it into the NBA, maybe I would have […]

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Transition Time…Again

by Lenny Schmidt February 12, 2013

Life is full of stages. It never ends. It’s like bullet points for your life. Mine are baby, toddler, adolescent, teenager, young man, pothead, restaurateur, open mic comic, meth head, sous chef, road comic, actor, husband, writer, director, father, out of work writer, delivery man, divorcee, single parent, and now cruise ship comic. I might […]

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The View from the Cliff

by Harvey Asher, Ph.D. December 27, 2012

The current Congress cannot reach a broad, reasonable agreement – a combination of tax increases and entitlement cuts — to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff for reasons built into American political system, namely the ability of an intransigent minority or individual Senator to torpedo sensible or essential legislation.

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The Reluctant DILF – Al Fresco

by Christopher T. Wood December 19, 2012

Monologist Christopher T. Wood visits a nude beach for your pleasure. Read it, watch it or both. There are moments in a man’s life when ego trumps reason. When, “I shouldn’t” seamlessly morphs into, “Obviously, one shouldn’t, but given my recent burst of awesome, maybe I should.” At this point in the thought process, some […]

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The Catchiest Post You’ll Ever Read

by Katy McCaffrey November 29, 2012

Very often, around mealtimes, or clothes-picking times, or any culling from a large group to a small group of something-times, I will have to ask my daughter over and over again what she wants.  “Do you want meatballs?  Carrots? Udon Noodles?  Quail? Hello?  Can you hear me?”  Eventually she’ll remember a person is talking to […]

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Happy Birthday, Mr. Vonnegut

by Tony Shea November 19, 2012

Kurt Vonnegut would have been 90 this year. His birthday was November 11th. I missed it, not that there is any grand celebration per se. I usually just read some of my favorite work of his – Mother Night, if I had to pick an absolute favorite, although I love them all, and Bluebeard, which […]

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Marcia Nadel

by Carlos Kotkin November 14, 2012

While attending the USC School of Cinema-Television, I was assigned to make a short character sketch. Students were only allowed to have one person in their short. For each additional human being who appeared, we would be docked a grade. I thought this was ridiculous. For starters, art – in any form – cannot be […]

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IT’S NOT JUST THE ECONOMY, STUPID or, Why I Predict Romney Won’t Win

by Harvey Asher, Ph.D. November 5, 2012

HARVEY ASHER PREDICTED WHO WOULD WIN THIS YEAR’S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ALL THE WAY BACK IN AUGUST…TOMORROW, WE’LL SEE IF HE’S RIGHT. Hail to the Chief [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/53227125″ iframe=”true” /] On the eve of the Republican Party’s convention, we interrupt the monthly posts of my blog to bring you a special bulletin:  my educated guess as to […]

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Let’s Do a Midnight Feeding, Shall We?

by Katy McCaffrey October 16, 2012

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/48236179″ iframe=”true” /] Please enjoy this post with a little baby sleep-enhancing white noise.  Maybe even dim your lights for the full effect. It’s 12:03 am and the infant has woken for for his second of four nighttime feedings.  He’s hungry and wet and it would be great if this could all be managed […]

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