I’d Like To Thank the Academy
And the Calphalon Stainless Steel 3 Quart Saute Pan goes to…. “Oh, wow. Wow. What an incredible moment. Just–just so many people. My incredible parents, Ann and Carl, who first made me aware of health hazards not necessarily on the radar of mainstream America. My brother, Noah, who told me that this was a good […]
Read MoreRelationship Woes At the Italian Pastry Shop
“I heard you and your girl broke up. You were together a long time, yeah?”“Two years.”“What happened?”“She was a money-hungry woman.”“Well, you’re a money-hungry guy.”“Exactly. Two money-hungry people is no good.”“But you gave her everything!”“I gave her everything and more.”“So what’d she want?”“She wanted blood.”“You took her to Miami!”“I took her to Italy, too. And […]
Read MoreNoise
Today was one of those days you could hear all the clocks ticking. I sat down after doing the dishes to admire them all lined up in the drainboard, blowing the air past my pursed lips with the authority that says, “What important task am I going to tackle with ease and aplomb next?” but […]
Read MoreIT is a Calphalon Triply Stainless Steel 3 Quart Saute Pan
Beware! Your Teflon pans can kill you, kill you dead. While you lie asleep in your bed at night, your Teflon pans are plotting your demise. So sleep with one eye open, because the Teflon pans in your kitchen are waiting for just the right moment to slink into your bedroom, pull back the covers […]
Read MorePoetry for and by 25-year-olds
If you enjoy poetry other than haikus, some really great poems are here. Rachel Schiff writes them. Rachel turned 25 this month. Here is a poem just for her. by Gregory Corsofrom Gasoline1958 I AM 25 With a love a madness for Shelley Chatterton Rimbaudand the needy-yap of my youth has gone from ear to […]
Read MoreMedical Drama
The doctor on television is desperately giving CPR to a character who’s only just been introduced in this episode, not even a special guest star but someone you vaguely recognize as having played the husband of the woman who was killed on the legal show and maybe the paramedic from the other medical drama, the […]
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