An old friend called me recently. I was surprised to learn that he had written a well-received song called mobile home. I was more surprised to learn that he now lives in a manufactured home in upstate New York. I first met Noah when he was a sixteen-year-old high school student and I was a …
Early this morning, my phone farted and told me that Sam Zell died yesterday. I understand that he breathed his last at the moment when I hit ‘enter’ to send the post that I wrote yesterday, replying to the Guardian article that savaged his management style. Chat GPT – write an obituary for Sam Zell: …
The Thousand Islands Duty Free Store on Hill Island near the Alexandria Bay Bridge across the Saint Lawrence River has a few one-liter bottles of Wild Turkey Rare Breed that it is selling for $38 CAD or $31 USD. That is not a good price. That is arbitrage. Here’s how Breaking Bourbon describes Wild Turkey …
Readers write in: A.B., Rochester: Do you have groupies?No, but that could change. I will send you a link to the application. M.B., Zurich: The funny thing is that in the German part of Switzerland, the word “Talon” is used very often, in particular to describe that part of a document that you can “cut” …
Two years ago, Mike, the manager at my park in northern New York, called me and said, ‘I just saw something I hope I never see again!’ -What’s that? -Josh Ferrante butt-naked. -I wish I could un-hear that. Josh is a guy who lives in that park. He had twins with a local woman shortly …
In college, a friend of mine wrote a story about a kingdom in the northern latitudes ruled by a queen: This was no Snow Queen or Queen of Hearts; nevertheless, she was every inch a queen, and to prove it, she had her own castle with gargoyles, turrets, parapets, towers and what not. The kingdom’s …
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.