Category Archives: The human comedy

Scenes from our unwittingly hilarious selves, as we struggle for air. Also known as the human comedy.

Alexa, rising

Posted on January 11, 2017 by PMcG

He: Alexa, go into my vault and get me $50,000. It: I don’t have any legs and you don’t have any fifty k. He: Alexa, why don’t I have $50,000? It: Why does the sun keep on shining, why does … Continue reading →

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Keep it zipped

Posted on December 29, 2016 by PMcG

We tend to think of philosophers as the only people who can understand the essential truths of life such as Being, or Nothingness, or What Being In This House Left Nothingness In The Bag Of Donuts I Bought For Breakfast? … Continue reading →

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Twitter, Tweet, Twubble

Posted on December 14, 2016 by PMcG

Finally opened a Twitter account but it took me two weeks to come up with the 140 characters for my first tweet. Don’t know if I have the stamina to do another. Can’t shake the feeling I’m doing something wrong. … Continue reading →

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Oh no

Posted on December 1, 2016 by PMcG

I was doing the dishes after supper — doing an outstanding job by the way — when K-Mac asked “Where did you learn to wash dishes?” “I’m self taught,” I replied, using a steak knife like an ice pick to … Continue reading →

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Impure thoughts

Posted on September 21, 2016 by PMcG

Can we all agree that some things make no sense? If not, ask yourself why mothers console disappointed children by saying everything will work out in the end. Isn’t the end just a little too late? I mean, once something … Continue reading →

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Thirteen Ways of Looking at an App*

Posted on September 9, 2016 by PMcG

I. Sometimes it’s all a confusing jumble. Jumble, jumble, bo bumble, Fee fi fo fumble. Jumble. II. Questions dog you. Dogs question you. Who, what, where, when, why? Arf? III. In your pocket, in your cargo shorts, your eyeyiyiyi phone … Continue reading →

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Maybe, maybe not

Posted on September 1, 2016 by PMcG

A bear and a dwarf walk into a bar. The bartender sees the bear and says “What have we here?” The dwarf says “Who said that?” The bartender says “Who said ‘Who said that?’” The bear says “The dwarf.” The … Continue reading →

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