“The Prodigal: a divine comedy, of sorts”: Preview 2020

This is worth your read all the way through. But the giant hippo should have been a clue, as to that. 🙂  On a quiet Christmas Eve in 1998, I was working as a contract senior editor; my job was putting together the daily transcripts for National Public Radio. That day, a rerun […]
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Jun, 29, 2020
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The Parable of the COVID

 After a day spent teaching the noodlehead masses all manner of science and technology, from chemotherapy to pneumatics to security analytics, the rabbi finally rested his derriere on a bench near a pond. (Due to coronavirus, the rabbi first sprayed the bench mightily with Lysol.)  The paparazzi had yet to discover the rabbi’s […]
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May, 10, 2020
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 I think Uber Nights is the perfect bathroom book. If there are any public libraries out there listening, I think they should put a copy in every stall.
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