“Daddy kept sneaking nervous peeks at me and at the rearview mirror. Behind us, the U-Haul trailer wobbled and swayed from side to side. In silence I waited impatiently for the tragic highway accident that would paralyze me but wrench both my parents back to their senses. I pictured the three of us back homeContinue reading “RKS Literature: Trying to Cope with a Parental Split (Wally Lamb)”
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RKS Literature: How Exactly are Babies Born? (Wally Lamb)
“My information about sex was a mosaic of eavesdropping, process of elimination and filling in the blanks. In third grade I heard the term “sleeping together” and spent time worrying that accidental fatigue could make an unwanted child-that male and female strangers sharing a seat together on an overnight train might innocently doze off andContinue reading “RKS Literature: How Exactly are Babies Born? (Wally Lamb)”
The Return of the Penniless Pensioner: Chapter Fourteen: Destroying and Rebuilding the State Apparatus: Reshaping the Military
The squashing of the Sixtember coup d’etat highlighted the importance of having the military apparatus under control of President Oran Crapaud. If only Vice President Mick Suspense had been hung by the insurgents matters might have turned out differently. Commander in Chief simply isn’t enough as a military with conscience won’t execute orders contrary toContinue reading “The Return of the Penniless Pensioner: Chapter Fourteen: Destroying and Rebuilding the State Apparatus: Reshaping the Military”
The Return of the Penniless Pensioner: Chapter 12: A Dictator Grooms America: Intellectual and Showboat Inner Party Leaders Needed!
In addition to the crude and brutal physical storm troopers like The Shame Boys and The Oath Breakers who terrorize, burn books, bash heads and participate in highly orchestrated performances to further America’s Golden Age such as the notorious (or glorious to some) 6thtober a more “sophisticated” and identifiable gang is required to manage theirContinue reading “The Return of the Penniless Pensioner: Chapter 12: A Dictator Grooms America: Intellectual and Showboat Inner Party Leaders Needed!”
RKS Literature: The Unreal of Wasted Effort (Yasunari Kawabata)
“Though he was an idler who might as well spend his time in the mountains as anywhere, he looked upon mountain climbing as almost a model of wasted effort. For that reason it pulled at him with the attraction of the unreal.” Yasunari Kawabata, “Snow Country”, 1956
Spoof News Services: Anti-Trump/Pro Pickenbobber Riots Sweep Through Canada: Hillier, Ontario: Hostage Negotiations for Canadian First Grader Underway: 19February2025
Thousands of ordinarily polite Canadians took to the streets yesterday denouncing the imperialistic ambitions of American President Donald Trump currently cavorting bare-chested on a magnificent stallion with President Vladimir Putin at the President’s villa on the Black Sea celebrating the partition of Ukraine. The core of this Canadian fury centred around the detention and kidnappingContinue reading “Spoof News Services: Anti-Trump/Pro Pickenbobber Riots Sweep Through Canada: Hillier, Ontario: Hostage Negotiations for Canadian First Grader Underway: 19February2025”
The Return of the Penniless Pensioner: Chapter 11: A Dictator Grooms America: Take Centre Stage and The Cult of Personality
Once upon a time President Oran Crapaud was a middling entrepreneur specializing in bankruptcy and screwing countless suppliers by pulling the plug on what he had started through declarations of bankruptcy. Whatever he could hawk he did whether it be ties, hotels, golf courses or promoting Miss America contests. Somehow, he landed a television show:Continue reading “The Return of the Penniless Pensioner: Chapter 11: A Dictator Grooms America: Take Centre Stage and The Cult of Personality”
Spoof News Services: The United States Bans the Sale of Canadian Maple Syrup: Washington: 17February2025
Susan Malaka Secretary of Agriculture of the United States just fresh off a 16February2025 ban of Canadian Ice-wine announced today effective immediately the criminalization of the possession of and trafficking of Canadian maple syrup. American citizens may return any Canadian maple syrup in their possession under the terms of an amnesty also announced today byContinue reading “Spoof News Services: The United States Bans the Sale of Canadian Maple Syrup: Washington: 17February2025”
The Return of the Penny Pensioner: Chapter 10: A Dictator Grooms America: Consolidate Domestic Power by Sowing Confusion
President Oran Crapaud of the United States of America has a confusion strategy domestically and internationally. Crapaud slashed and burned Big America Government Bureaucracy (BAGB). Terminate, intimidate and browbeat BAGB reminiscing to the time when Crapaud postulates America was great. Greatness harks back to the time prior to BAGB. Who cares if BAGB was bornContinue reading “The Return of the Penny Pensioner: Chapter 10: A Dictator Grooms America: Consolidate Domestic Power by Sowing Confusion”
The Return of the Penniless Pensioner: Chapter Nine: A Dictator Grooms America: The Power of Non-Ideology
Most political movements are glued and powered by a cohesive and extensive ideology. The Crapaud ideology can be written on a yellow stickie. Crapaudism is based on manufactured anger manipulated to attract and pander to his base. Anger, often theatrical, is directed towards what inflames his base. On the opening pages of a very slimContinue reading “The Return of the Penniless Pensioner: Chapter Nine: A Dictator Grooms America: The Power of Non-Ideology”
