‘You remember the Meister Brau commercial where the agent tells the movie star that the studios aren’t calling back, the ex-wife has taken him to the cleaners, and the only luxury he can afford is Meister Brau’, the Founder asked Legal. He picked a large bottle of Taiwan Beer off the table and filled the …
Separated at Birth? Legal did not like the mandatory Wednesday poker games that the Founder instituted after the Bull requiring Dirtlease staff to return to the office went out. The faux swinging doors and tinny player piano music grated. He did not like the smug look on the Founder’s face or the way Marketing chattered …
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A representative of DOPE visited the Founder in the bughouse recently. The Founder was wrapped in a straitjacket, sitting in his padded room, looking through the bars of the window at the Hudson. ‘It’s a lovely view’, he told DOPE. ‘I can’t see this this from my home. Do you remember the joke about Jesus …
When Legal and the Founder woke up in the drunk tank, Legal said, ‘This is worse than the time we were abducted by aliens’. ‘The first time or the second time’, the Founder asked. He didn’t like the way Legal kissed his ass, but when he looked at the large tattooed man leaning against him …
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[1] The author is indebted to Michael Perehinec for invaluable advice regarding the New York State Good Cause Eviction law. Any mistakes herein are solely the author’s. The Founder and Legal recently travelled to Oregon to consult with the Oracle at Klamath. Getting off the plane at PDX, the Founder tried to catch the eye …
The Founder recently went looking for the Leader of Spiritual Architecture for the Dirtlease Group. Spiritual Architecture is housed in an out-of-the-way office in the Bosworth Building on the main Dirtlease campus, next to Human Resources. It used to be called the Psychology Department. The name was changed during a re-branding initiative in the late …
Mike, the manager at the Dirtlease park in northern New York, recently told the Founder that Mike’s Amish neighbor had asked him if he wanted to have sex with his wife. ‘The feck you say’, the Founder said. ‘Why?’ ‘He said that they were so inbred that they needed new DNA, and he wanted me …
A bill recently proposed in the Delaware state legislature was discussed in the latest Zoom call held by the Dirt Lease executive committee. After the Founder put it up on the screen, the Brady Bunch quieted down and read. The COO moved his lips. The General Counsel frowned. HR pursed her lips and nudged …
Banned in Boston The first book to be banned in Boston was The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption, written in 1650 by William Pynchon (1590-1662), a distant ancestor of Thomas Pynchon and the first European settler of Springfield, MA. In the book, Pynchon argued that the price of atonement was obedience, rather than punishment and …
. Late antiquity, Asia Minor. The residents of a manufactured housing community are gathered near the entrance to the park. [1] . What are we waiting for, assembled in front of the mailboxes? [2] Rent control legislation is due today.[3] . Why isn’t anything going on in the office?Why have people stopped mowing their lawns? …