I was visiting my parents recently and happened to pick up the local newspaper, which was sitting on the kitchen table. There on the front page was the big news of the day, “Lost Items Collected In Lost And Found.” I’m not making this up. I actually had to read it several…
Posts Written ByDavid Todd McCarty
Chickens In the brothel
Jane wanted chickens. Live ones. “Four of them,” she told me matter-of-factly. She thought about it some more then said, “No six. Yes, six. And red.” “Six red chickens,” I repeated, not looking up. We were having lunch outside, as it was an unseasonably warm day. I was trying to…
Wild Parties
They found him there the next morning, passed out cold. It was clear what had happened, as the evidence lay strewn all about him on the front lawn of the Baker Lake Resort. So when Lisa Broxson, bookkeeper for the Baker Lake, Washington resort arrived in the morning for work,…
Quote: C.S. Lewis
"You can make anything by writing."
C.S. Lewis
A Brief History of Violence
I’m the guy no one sees. An invisible man in a city of millions. Oh, it’s not hard to be invisible in the city—not like back home in Calumet, Oklahoma where we had a whopping 553 people in the whole town—well, until I left, and then I guess it was…
Quote: AA Milne
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
— Winnie The Pooh
Santa Accused of Assaulting Third Elf
In a stunning new development, in what has been a month of developments, a third elf has come forward to accuse Santa Claus of sexual harassment and retaliatory behavior. The yet unidentified elf has come forward with claims that Mr. Claus made unwanted sexual advances while they were flying over…
Quote: Dalton Trumbo
I’ve always thought of my life as a sequence of conflicts, each a separate battle, segregated in my mind under the heading, 'My fight with these guys' or 'My fight with those guys.' In thinking back now I realize I have regarded each fight as distinct and unrelated to the other, and have sometimes marveled how one man could have so many of them. I now realize it was all one fight; that the relation of each to the other was very close; and I am really no more combative than any other man. It just happened in my case that the original fight once undertaken, expanded marvelously into what seemed like many many fights and the most recent in a sequence of fights is actually no more than the current phase of he primary engagement. Since all men have at least one fight in their lives, and are not considered professional troublemakers because of it, the longer view reveals in me a citizen no less peaceful than his neighbors.
Dalton Trumbo
The Tavern
Horseshoes and cowboy boots In the middle of the South Jersey that is. Blue collars, red hats, white faces Action news proclaims the world is ending Day drinkers and golfers don’t seem to notice Sit wherever you like, she says Taco Tuesdays Beer and a shot is the special Camo…
White, Red and Blue
There was another one According to the news Excessive force they say Union says differently Video is hard to watch White shirt stained red Keep calm they say Everyone is innocent Until proven not guilty When you wear blue