Monthly Archives: May 2016

Brooklyn Tony ON MATH

May 23, 2016 – 11:05 am

Brooklyn Tony returns from school and says he got an F in arithmetic. “Why?” asks the father. The teacher asked ‘ How much is 2 x 3,’ I said “6,’” replies TONY. “But that’s right!” says his dad. “Yeah, but then she asked me ‘ How much is 3 x 2?’” “What’s the fucking difference […]

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Aye Aye War Ships

May 21, 2016 – 2:55 pm

In my youth my father drove our family north from Falmouth Foresides to Bath to witness the launching of various warships into the Kennebuc River. We were always impressed by the massive steel hulls sliding down the slipways to the river and the crowd always applauded an addition to the US Naval Fleet. America was […]

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So Faithless – Pieter Bruegel

May 21, 2016 – 12:37 pm

“Because the world is so faithless, I go my way in mourning.” Pieter Bruegel

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Juvenile Mobile Lock-Up

May 21, 2016 – 11:10 am

The Catholic Church in Maine promoted procreation in hopes that those of the faith would demographically overwhelm the State’s predominant worship of Protestantism. A devout member of the Roman Church my mother produced six healthy children through the 1950s. Our family car was a Ford station wagon and my father feared one of us slipping […]

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Dinah Willis – Playboy Miss December 1964

May 19, 2016 – 11:25 am

I left Barbie for her.

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