The Daily Word 10.12.09: Polanski, Jackman, Unm Siren, Michael Jackson Song. Roman Polanski is depressed.Five missiles from North Korea. Explosion in Pakistan.There’s a new Michael Jackson song.A guy slept through his house burning down.Two [...] Nick Brown \ Oct 15, 2009 Read More
My Daughter’s Diary Children can be so puzzling. I read the first entry in my daughter’s diary and I can’t quite figure it out. Thursday, October [...] Nick Brown \ Oct 01, 2009 Read More
The Daily Word 10.05.09: Pet Bear, Killer Raccoons, Floods, Quakes And Taliban A woman was killed by her pet bear. Imagine!A swarm of killer raccoons killed Gretchen Whitted. Taliban troops stormed a NATO outpost.There’s flooding [...] Nick Brown \ Oct 01, 2009 Read More
Napkin Art #24: “Carl, Would You Like A Hot Dog?” By Jessica Cassyle Carr Halloween came early this year when our own JCC submitted this piece of Napkin Art inviting our corpulent publisher to taste his own [...] Nick Brown \ Oct 01, 2009 Read More
Make Your Vote Really Count When you’re voting, don’t forget to “personalize” your ballot with a picture of Fred Flintstone. I did. Nick Brown \ Oct 01, 2009 Read More
Have A Drink On Election Day In case there was any question about it, the bars are serving. When did they change that? Probably when it became legal to [...] Nick Brown \ Oct 01, 2009 Read More
My Great Grandfather’s Journal: On Safari I recently came into possession of a journal kept by my great grandfather many years ago. I found certain passages detailing his experiences [...] Nick Brown \ Sep 24, 2009 Read More
The Daily Word 09.28.09: Roman Polanski, Ufo, Orang Pendek, Muslim Caning US officials arrested Roman Polanski in Zurich.There’s flooding in the Philippines.There’s a weird Travolta extortion case I didn’t know about.A Muslim woman will [...] Nick Brown \ Sep 24, 2009 Read More
Napkin Art #23: Pagoda!! Sunrise!! By Isaiah (Smith?) Here’s a second submission by a previous napkin artist, Isaiah (whose last name I’m reading to be “Smith,” though I trust he’ll forgive [...] Nick Brown \ Sep 24, 2009 Read More
Napkin Art #22: Sacred Heart, By Alan Tonkin I wouldn’t presume to interpret the symbolic expression dripping from Alan Tonkin’s new Napkin Art submission, beyond, perhaps, observing that the stick figure [...] Nick Brown \ Sep 17, 2009 Read More