Tag: humor

Oneself as Another in the Controlled Burn: A Dispatch

Low flames and smoke and visions of the eschaton.

Something’s Fishy–But Not Very–At Dinnertime

Ingham County, MI As darkness falls upon what a friend of mine charitably calls “Jack-Ass Acres,” and as the promise of rain comes with the...

Auld Lame Side

This is what we all need now: a deep belly-laugh.

On Being a Worthy Heir of the Agrarian Contrarians

But, as Shakespeare wrote, we sometimes “by indirections find directions out.”

Bar Jester Chronicles 15: In Praise of Smartassery

Give me smartassery. Give me a yawning match.

Of Dullards, Whales, Frustrations, and Shirts Like Fetters

What of those who have never once thought it their duty to amuse their readers?

Our Special Today is Spleen

Ah, you know what? Screw it. Give me the hairshirts wherever they are.

Bar Jester Chronicles 12(A): “The Way to Bliss” (A Work...

Nor was it his great and almost constant tumescence, which his grey polyester pants could never quite sufficiently hide.

The Bar Jester’s Unpremeditated Verse

But as a profound poet trying to make a comfortable living I can’t really trouble myself about that fit audience though few. . . . Were I to start thinking about poetry in the social context, I’d be sliding down that slippery slope toward place, limits, and liberty. And then what? Localism? God help us!