Tag: humor writing
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The Auteur Next Door
When we first moved here, my issue of The New Yorker had ended up in my neighbor’s mailbox. So she, a very attractive young woman about my age, brought it over. “Well,” I mused to my wife, “That’ll save some time trying to impress the neighbors.” Any given Sunday, I can be found on the […]
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A Faux Pas, I Guess
Sometime just before Christmas I went to a small bookstore in a small town near my own. It is a lovely independent bookstore. The staff are very personable and very friendly. It fits perfectly into the town which it is sandwiched. When I visit a bookstore, I canvas. Moving swiftly and eagerly upon each whim. […]
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Off On The Wrong Foot
So the get together was lovely, rife with children. 6 in total. I think. It was chaos and screaming, and there was jumping and cacophony. People who had once been individuals, fun individuals, are now wranglers. Cops who police the unbridled whimsy of undomesticated humans. When not doing that they become the child’s manger, excitedly […]
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The First Party of the Decade
Today, Saturday, we are hosting our first get together that involves more than one family at a single time. This will be the first since Covid and the first in our new house. This group of people are primarily my wife’s friends. My friendships are few and tentative. Once upon a time I tried to […]
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Smoke ‘Em While Ya Got ‘Em!
I did a play once with a man, in his early-70s, who told me that if he made it to 80 he was going to start smoking again. A noble goal, and one I would gladly follow him in. Growing up, I often heard people say that no one looks good smoking and that it’s […]
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Western Union Calling
Tom lies staring at the ceiling in his rented room downtown. Ashtray sitting on the radiator. Smoking unfiltered camels. Listening to Fred Waring on the radio. Suddenly he jumps up and puts on his shirt, adjusts his tie, slips into a jacket, grabs his hat, and heads out of the room and down the stairs. […]
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The Conception Party
When you are of a certain age, you will wake one day to find that every single person you know has decided to procreate. Which will force you to wrestle with this question, but that’s another post entirely. Now part of this mass birthing will come a number of get-togethers. You will asked to attend […]
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The Charlie Manson Fan Club: An Open Letter to Quentin Tarantino
My Dearest Mr. Tarantino, I know you didn’t mean to hand a pound of problems in a half pound sack to your beloved pallys. Many of us who are cut from the same cloth you are. Those of us who, regardless of age and background have managed to soak in all that permeates the culture. […]
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Major News Events Of The ’90s (As Interpreted By Me, Who Was A Small Child At The Time)
April 6, 1992 – December 14, 1995 – The Bosnian War – I don’t know what this one was about. I just know that it really upset Peter Jennings and it was all he would talk about. Sometimes it made me miss Tiny Toon Adventures. January 20, 1993 – The first inauguration of President Clinton […]
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Typewriters: A Love Affair
I haven’t the time, and you haven’t the patience to hear me wax poetically in regards to this obsolete writing utensil. So I shall keep it brief with a story of love and loss, and how we do not always want what we suppose we want. I adored the typewriter. I always have. They are […]
Christopher Duvall 