Opinion

How to be funny?

A self-indulgent view of comedy is one thing, but a comedic, self-indulgent view of a self-indulgent view of comedy is, while perhaps meta, a whole other thing.

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A Day for the Groundhog

Adjacent to the township of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, in the township of Primrose, Pennsylvania in an open prairie, under an oak tree, notebook in hand, Rob Perez sits on the ground near a groundhog’s burrow.

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Believing in fairy tales . . .

There is a detective story by Lemony Snicket called, “Who Could That Be at This Hour?” and in the book is a character called Dashiell Qwerty who is quoted as saying, “They say in every library there is a book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind." My immediate thought, “But what if that book is banned from your library?”Americans should be trusted to make their own decisions about what they and their children read.

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