boomspeak

Science, what’s left of it in the past year, is only recently studying what nonlinear aging looks like. Do we age steadily or all at once? Most of us (I’ll include you the reader because I appreciate you) feel like aging happens in stops and starts. For example, you’re feeling pretty good and out of the blue you wake up with hip or knee pain. As per the title, at least you wa...

Once a year, years ago, the circus ‘came to town’ and among other highlights, set up a midway featuring exotica not found down on the farm. For the price of admission, folks could “Step right up!” to gawk at freaks of nature otherwise isolated from everyday life – a controlled glimpse into the unusual, the strange.

The circus phenomenon seems to have declined along wit...

American Federation of Fry Cooks
2313 E. M St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20022

To: Mr. Res Ident

Dear Mr. Ident:

We have had enough. Please help us. Our records indicate that you have purchased and presumably consumed fast foods during the past several years. For this we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

Our colleagues are under constant a...