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They’re baaaaaack . . .”Attack of the Squash People” by Marge Piercy
And thus the people every year in the valley of humid July did sacrifice themselves to the long green phallic god and eat and eat and eat. They're coming, they're on us, the long…
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Louis Armstrong: You’ll Never Walk Alone
Louis Armstrong was born on July 4, 1900 if you believe him or August 4, 1901 if you believe your lying eyes. Let's assume the latter as astrologically valid. A Leo, then, with Aries…
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All-Time Great Sentences
From Kissinger by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schyster, 2005), p. 131. This sentence appears after the author has presented several rival versions of an incident during the 1968 presidential election campaign: "Where does the truth…
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Boston’s Chinatown: Not Just Red Lanterns [by Eleanor Goodman]
If you’ve spent any time in China, it’s easy to slam the Chinatowns of America. They’re just a lot of red lanterns and restaurants with Americanized Chinese food. Yeah, there are Chinese people around,…
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Here’s one for you . . .
Think of a seven letter word that will make sense in the first blank. Switch the letters around to find the words that make sense in the remaining four blanks: His fortune was _…
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On the Subway Platform by John Brehm
—for Kate Where are you going I saidand she said I’m going to look for a bookand I said what kind of book? A book onPERFECTIONISM she said and I saidmake sure you…
