Category Archives: Internet

PEOPLE SUCK Gus and the Snowmen

It’s Super Bowl Sunday and I am wandering around the Fort Greene Observatory in a green cotton robe. The windows are open and the curtains are up. The people in the new condo building are probably staring into their binoculars and saying, “That crazy old coot is naked again.” They’re right and I’m about to […]

Illiterati of the Modern Age # 1

Back in the early 1960s I attended a good Catholic grammar school on the South Shore of Boston. Dyslexia was considered a sign of the Devil by the Nuns of Our Lady of the Foothills along with writing with the left or sinister hand. The inability to decode words has been declared incurable by various […]

April Fool’s Day – Thai Visa

Thai visa is not normally known for its humor, however back in 2007 a morning’s alert about a new Luxury Tax on internet usage in Thailand struck a ‘Orson Welles’ Invasion from Mars panic in the blog’s readers. Even I fell for it, until my comrade Sam Royalle reminded me of the date. April Fool’s […]

Facebook Ban on No Thanks Day

In 2013 I wrote the following on my Facebook page. “My people arrived on the Mayflower. Howlands. We’re still here. Where are the Wampanoags? On Nantucket protesting Thanksgiving. Happy Turkey Day.” An hour later the message and comments were removed by someone. I am unable to use my home page and Facebook posted this. Account […]

Bizarro View Of Thailand

I found this wacky website spoofing Wikipedia thanks to friskdude in Pai It offers a Bizarro vista of Thailand. Here’s the intro. Thailand is a very sexy country in Suwannabhumi, in the polar regions near the equator. Everyone in Thailand wears a thai, both men and women, as casual clothing is one of the country’s […]