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By Mollie Fermaglich Dear Elon, I know I’m much too old for you. I won’t get on a plane, let alone the SpaceX Rocket, and my taste in baby names leans more toward Michael and John, Elizabeth and Jane than X AE A-Xii, which sort of reminds me of algebra, wh... More »
Text and illustrations: David Sheskin (Inspired by Wedding Announcements in the New York Times ) Paulette Dutkus and Alexander McBride Paulette Pearl Dutkus and Alexander Graham McBride were married November 29 on the front steps of the Sigmund Freud Museum in... More »
I Created a Monster at Work Today. No, Really… or, Victor Frankenstein Will Not be Home for Dinner by Corey Pajka Hey, Elizabeth! How are you liking this nifty invention of mine? We’re talking to each other now, so I guess you’re getting the hang of it. ... More »
by David Comfort ANNOUNCER: Welcome, Wrestlemania fans, to Istanbul’s Ataturk Olympic Arena where Vlad the Impaler faces off with Ukraine’s Super-Z for the world title tonight! In a peace talk breakthrough after a stalemate on the front, Vladimir P... More »
By Martin H. Levinson * * * By Gunnar ”Gun ’em Down” QAnonski In 2008, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment guarantees the right of individuals to own guns. But that’s not all it guarantees. It assures the right to bear any sorts of arm... More »
By Basta Are you depressed by the destruction of abortion rights at the Supreme Court? Do you incredulously watch state after state pass draconian laws, allowing any citizen to sue abortion providers, considering creating databases of all pregnant women, and r... More »
“For years Marin Verghese’s sensitive and haunting renderings of organic decay have left viewers spellbound. His latest and most ambitious series of works, entitled The Trial of the Impious Cow consists of a set of fifteen exquisitely detailed huge enamel ... More »
In his first town hall event with Twitter employees since agreeing to acquire the company, [Elon] Musk faced a series of questions about his stance on content moderation and reiterated his desire to allow all legal speech on Twitter, even when that includes so... More »
New York Magazine recently reported that a lady with a $10 million dollar home in the Hamptons, and who flies everywhere on private jets, prides herself in owning “fake” designer handbags. She’s just one of a group of extremely wealthy women who are stau... More »
By D.J. Rosenthal Are you and your unpublished manuscript having a lull in your relationship? If your manuscript is just not emotionally available, you might be wanting different things from each other. Do you need more of a sense of fulfillment from your page... More »
by Lisa Rosenberg Dear Miss Dickinson, Ms. Plath, and Mr. Eliot, My reveries of having tea with the three of you are repeatedly marred by an intrusive image of this transpiring at a supermarket Starbucks. In the suburbs. * Dear Reader, Not wanting to disappoin... More »
The Simpleton a novel by Alex Bakhtin (Pigeon Classics, 2022), 612 pages Reviewed by James Fable It is almost a truism by now that Postmodernism is obsessed with adaptations. Whether feminist retellings of Greek myth or barely digestible mashups of anglophone ... More »