The Big Takeover
Region: New York
I arrived at the Bearsville Theatre "Tribute to One Love" reggae show as The Big Takeover was playing. I was surprised that all the musicians were white, though the lead singer was black. All looked to be in their 20s -- t... more
Views: 1051The Ventures
Region: New York
This record doesn't have a title; instead, it has a series of titles arrayed on the cover, as you see. (The spine merely reads: "The Ventures.") This album, as The Ventures wisely reckoned, needs no title. It is a work of ... more
Views: 890Newt Gingrich and Me
Region: New York
For many years, I worked at the 92nd St. Y, in Manhattan. One night Newt Gingrich came to speak in their capacious auditorium. "I must protest this fiend!" I realized, so after long thought, I created the following placard... more
Views: 877"Laughs from the Saturday Review of Literature"
Region: New York
I had forgotten the Saturday Review (a magazine which folded in 1986) though I clearly remember the Saturday Evening Post, from a recent Norman Rockwell show at the Brooklyn Museum. What was the whole "Saturday" craze in n... more
Views: 796"Scheherazade: Comics About Love, Treachery, Mothers, and Monsters", edited by Megan Kelso
Region: New York
Who was Scheherazade? Did she tell stories to an emperor to distract him from cutting off her head? (I realize that in the modern world one can simply click on Wikipedia and know everything, but I'm pretending it's still 1... more
Views: 801Mission Impossible IV
Region: New York
When I told my friends I saw the latest Mission Impossible movie, every single person laughed. Did they think I was seeing this movie just to be funny? The film has the fabulous title Ghost Protocol, in an era when... more
Views: 1126"Not So Deep As a Well: Collected Poems" by Dorothy Parker
Region: New York
Dorothy's reputation as a wit sabotages her poetry, which is largely unfunny. The world is not vast enough to include Dorothy's one-liners about Calvin Coolidge and poems like: The Leal The friends I made... more
Views: 873The 10 Best Movies of 2011
Region: New York
Each year, I see about ten movies. Several years ago I realized I could simply put them in order and have a ready-made "10 Best Movies of the Year." Last year I only saw nine, so I added one video (which is absolutely grea... more
Views: 1062Six New Poems
Region: New York
Syllogism Icicles are made of ice. Bicycles are made of bice. Micicles are made of mice. Invisible Sports Recently I began to follow invisible sports. I love i... more
Views: 562"glad stone children" by edmund berrigan
Region: New York
A voyage within a seaworthy room, a room of access. I was surprised how many of these poems are about God -- maybe all of them. "Poems are spiritual ponies." (That's a proverb I just invented.) Eddie writes in response to ... more
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Tourist: Excuse me, but do you have a pumpkin patch?
Farmer: Why, do you have a leaky pumpkin?
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