I recently tried out the new free AI chatbot, Chat GPT. When I began the task, I thought that the content would be Stepfordian. I believe that I was wrong. Text in italics is all computer generated, with no editing by me. Prompts are in bold. Chat GPT – Write a paragraph about managing mobile …
A suite of flash fiction pieces titled “O Mangi Questa Minestra…” written by the staff at Dirtlease.com has been selected for the finals of the prestigious 2023 annual defenestrationism.net flash fiction contest. The winner is determined on the basis of fan voting. You can vote here, here or here (Newfies, Kerrymen, slow surfer dudes from …
Here is the first verse of the song A Few of My Favorite Things: Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens Brown paper packages tied up with strings These are a few of my favorite things The song is from The Sound of Music. I have never seen …
Follow link to Ep;phany Magazine. If you need a tie-in to the mobile home park business, the bonds that Kumar traded were backed by loans secured by the souls of manufactured housing folk.
This does not look like someplace where history was made: That is the Androscoggin Bank Colisée. It is where the Maine Nordiques play. The Nordiques are a team in the North American Hockey League, which is a USA-sanctioned Tier II junior hockey league. The Colisée is in a crappy section of Lewiston which is, quite …
Here’s the only canned tomato sauce recipe you will ever need: 2 cans (28 oz each) peeled plum tomatoes with juice 4 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed 1 tbsp kosher salt or sea salt 2 tbsp sugar 6 tbsp (3 oz) extra virgin olive oil ½ c (packed) fresh basil Boil and stir, crushing the …
Two of the most gracious readers of this blog are older Jewish men originally from down-state New York. One is my father. The other is a guy who lives in a park in the Southern Tier named Richard Malowitz. Richard handled evictions for my park in central New York until his health got the better …
A Welsh reader writes in: Did I ever tell you, Tom Jones and I were at Jesus College Oxford together in 1958…Jesus was known as the “Welsh College” having been founded in the reign of Elizabeth l by a Welshman… Jones and I hailed from Wales… We drank gallons of beer and sang dirty students …
This blog is for snark. I send the serious literary fiction and memoir to other organizations to publish. They send it back, and I send it out again. On the rare occasions when something is accepted, I put it up here after the rights revert. Some months ago, I wrote a piece called Lenny, Lucid …
The Hindi-language series Panchayat is available for streaming on Amazon Prime, and it is hilarious. I would say that it is a re-hash of Northern Exposure translated into twenty-first century India, but I have never watched Northern Exposure – and the fish-out-of-water trope pre-dates 1990. I think that a good premise for a sitcom …