2017-12-21 21:29
Somebody Blew Up SantaSomebody blew up Santa while he was taking a napRight there on the front lawn, wearing a red flannel capSomebody blew up Santa under a coconut treeWhile he was dancing… Read More
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2017-01-30 02:11
The failing @NYTimes says the Fiji Mermaid is a monkey sewn to a catfish tale. LIES! Fake News! SadHearing great thing about #BarnumsAmericanMuseumTsar! Grigori Rasputin is the best thing th… Read More
2017-01-16 23:03
When I first heard that the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus were packing up their tent, I was initially a little saddened. I remember seeing “The Greatest Show On E… Read More
2016-10-22 19:04
When I grow up, I'm going to win the lottery. Then I'll finally get the respect of all the kids here at Parkersburg Intermediate.I'll have so much money that all of the other 6th graders wil… Read More
2016-09-05 16:38
Overheard at Trump Tower: Ivanka just told me that the kids today really,really love the music. So just like Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." essentially won the white hou… Read More
2016-08-07 14:19
In the middle of this heated summer, in the midst of an August work week, let us all put down our guard for a moment and like some stuff. I know it's hard. The kids have been out… Read More
2016-07-17 18:58
Central Ohio is abuzz. Not just with the flies that follow the carnies across the state, but with anticipation of the annual Franklin County Fair.This year marks the 99th anniversary of the… Read More
2016-07-13 20:11
Central Ohio is abuzz. Not just with the flies that follow the carnies across the state, but with anticipation of the annual Franklin County Fair.This year marks the 99th anniversary of the… Read More
2016-04-10 21:36
Hang in there John, I know it seems like you're depleting your campaign funds for a losing cause. In fact, pundits, pollsters and mathematicians alike say the possibility o… Read More
2015-12-07 18:33
It's Christmas in America. Halloween. Thanksgiving. Black Friday. Scary ghost stories and tales of the glories, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming. It's Christma… Read More
2015-08-08 22:29
Firelight is casting shadows on the walls of this caveMonsters are slowly dancing to the rhythmic flamesAm I smelling tonight's dinner or fresh flesh from the grave ?I dare not ask these que… Read More
2015-08-08 22:27
Me? Good. Arlo's starting Fall quarter at Penn State on a lacrosse scholarship. Nicole got her braces off and she's starting to discover boys. You just can't get her off that… Read More
2015-04-24 00:00
Revisionist TV history was never taught to me in schoolSo I believed the founding fathers were uncommonly coolBut now I've learned they're only human and I feel like such a foolAnd that hypo… Read More
2015-04-23 15:38
“Thank you to the Greenville H.S. Senior Choir for that stirring rendition. You know when I hear that beautiful chorus, and look out at all of you, I feel like he listened. God alread… Read More
2015-04-05 00:13
The last week of March in Ohio saw temperatures as low as eighteen degrees. Too late to be so cold. Our annual ritual of the drinking, the eating, and the wearing of the green did litt… Read More
2015-03-27 23:54
(with special thanks to the rabbit hole that is youtube)Right now, somewhere in America, Boston's "More Than a Feeling" is playing on the radio. That same station, within the last 72 hours… Read More
2015-01-25 15:05
The grey weather and the forty five hour work weeks have put my muse into hibernation, so I've been revisiting an old monster that's uncomfortably close to home. "Smile" (the musical) i… Read More
2014-12-30 18:46
Somewhere in the corner of this dusty old atticMust be what I came in here forBut all these boxes and these crates filled with lost memoriesSeem to take every inch of the floorYou can'… Read More
2014-12-30 18:44
I resolve to keep my feet on the ground, my nose to the grindstone, my hand at the wheel, and my eye on the ball.I resolve to just do it.I resolve to keep on keepin' on. I resolve to don't… Read More
2014-12-12 01:07
10 songs that should be on everyone's Christmas Party Playlist:My favorite part of this Holiday is the music, followed closely by the party. Here are some tunes to keep the yuletide jumpin'… Read More
2014-11-14 18:25
I am thankful for the words of Earnest Hemmingway and Edgar Allen Poe.I am thankful there are those who document their depressive downward alcoholic spiral before they kill themselves.I am t… Read More
2014-11-07 18:40
I have never seen a ghost.In fact, I'm starting to wonder if they really exist.Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever heard a reliable, first hand account of a “ghost sigh… Read More
2014-10-10 23:55
One day Hagley Field will succumb to the trash merchants and salvage vultures. And you'll see it all on TV. History will be salvaged in a quick and finite 27 minutes. The Columbus Public Sch… Read More
2014-09-11 21:37
Cincinnati Reds (currently 10 games back in the NL Central) pitcher, Aroldis Chapman will make $5 million dollars this season from MLB. This doesn't include the royalties he receives… Read More
2014-09-07 17:05
In a couple of weeks we're heading out for our summer family vacation. We will be making a stop in St. Augustine for a sip from the fountain of youth... Ah, the fountain of youth! The… Read More
2014-08-09 22:27
I was recently in Savannah. It's a beautiful city to stroll through. It's filled with quaint city squares and gorgeous old homes. There's history around ever corner. And around the corner fr… Read More
2014-07-16 15:50
This year, Independence Day in Central Ohio was custom built for my inner Sunshine patriot.Under a cloudless, seventy degree, moonlit night, my wife and I went to the city park and lai… Read More
2014-06-16 19:14
Savannah and St. Augustine are just stops on the way to our real vacation destination:Anna Maria Island. It's nothing short of an island paradise. Defining the southern edge of Tampa B… Read More
2014-06-11 15:28
Another stop we're making is in Savannah, Ga., founded by James Oglethorpe in 1733, who at first, looked like he might be the hero of this story. Though pirates were ridding their fleets of… Read More
2014-06-08 22:44
About the time Ponce de León took a fatal poisonous arrow to the thigh, the policy of enslaving indigenous populations: a la the encomienda, was itself suffering a near fatal blow; na… Read More
2014-06-01 20:27
Hear that grinding off in the distance? They're sharpening up another bladeThe law is the law and a sin is a sinThe state is the church is the stateThe house has a built in advantageThe dea… Read More
2014-05-12 14:12
As coins are spewing forth from the belly of the beast You get a chair at the table or you're carved up for the feast I cry the prophet tears of a commercial artiste Hypocritic, Schizo… Read More
2014-05-09 18:27
I have been suffering from horrible writers block. My creativity seems to be used up in the day-to-day drudgery of smiling interactions. But I have come to realize that it's not my fau… Read More
2014-05-02 16:40
Spring has sprung and love is in the air. And in the bushes, in the treetops, in the flower beds and shamelessly in the middle of the lawn. Our prolific House Sparrows are at it again. Som… Read More
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