Humor

Apr 1, 20222 min read

Aladdin's Genie

Aladdin's Genie Paul Hawkins He came to my yard sale and paid for an old toaster with $5 worth of nickels. I was asking $7 for it, but...

Jan 28, 20221 min read

Sears, Sodom and Gomorrah

I worked at the old Sears on 23rd and Penn in Oklahoma City during the mid 80’s. Rumor had it that on the third floor was a bordello for...

Jan 24, 20223 min read

Me, Herbalife and Meyer Wolfsheim

In The Great Gatsby, mobster Meyer Wolfsheim wore cufflinks made from human molars. Just to set the scene. I now realize that when I...

Jan 24, 20224 min read

Childhood Memories of a Prairie Catholic

I was a kid at St Francis, that downtown parish founded in the early 20th century originally a mission church to the whole Indian...

Aug 1, 20211 min read

Ben Franklin’s Bet

"Come on, Ben, it'll only take 15 minutes." "Yes, but fifteen minutes is still a quarter of an hour, my good man, and an industrious man...

Jul 12, 20212 min read

The Love Poem on a Grain of Rice

Jul 11, 20211 min read

Phil Lamont - Attorney for the Damned

Phil Lamont spent his afterlife being the attorney for the damned. Each and every damned person got maybe ten minutes in court to plead...

Apr 12, 20211 min read

The Eight Mountain

Paul Hawkins And so they climbed the seventh mountain; and six mountains they climbed first, and each was more arduous than the last, and...

Dec 1, 20206 min read

My Summer, Myself, My Student Loan Debt - A Post-Graduate Confession

A disillusioned young man, graduated with no hope for the future and with mountains of student loan debt, resigns himself to the life of...