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Goldfish Broth
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A soupçon of whimsy; a pinch of wit; and a goldfish. Raising an eyebrow at life's oddities.
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Werk
Work * Pronunciation: \ˈwərk\ * Etymology: Middle English werk, work, from Old English werc, weorc; akin to Old High German werc work, Greek ergon, Avestan varəzem activity 1 : activity in which one exerts strength or faculties to do or perfor...
Is it model or is it dog?
I torture myself unnecessarily with choosing prize-winners for my dopey contests; ‘unnecessarily’ because obviously it’s not the Man Booker Prize, the Acadamy Awards or the Nobel Peace Prize yet I appreciate immensely the thought, e...
Healthy death
A chucklesome comment from Sali Lamo, New Yorker cartoonist: “Not to be a downer or anything, but Michael Jackson’s dying is really going to hurt the credibility of the hyperbaric-oxygen-chamber industry.” Which is an insightful and pre...
Bargain Basement, Part II: TV
OK, no announcement just yet on the last contest. Instead, let’s for now take the premise of the literature challenge and head a short distance downmarket, into the area of popular television — specifically, for our first example, America...
Bargain Basement
First: the All New Horsemen of the Apocalypse competition winner. Thanks to everybody for your outstanding entries, and a compilation of the best would include at least one from everybody’s list. But this time I’ll do the whole tear-off-a...

