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Gotta Love Tom Gauld
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The Three Voices
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Why We Know Less Today Than People Did in the Renaissance, When They Depended on Gossip
Thanks to the indefatigable Abbas Raza at 3QuarksDaily.Read More
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Signs of Irony
Good fences make good neighbors? Not in the vicinity of Evergreen Lake….Read More
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School of Humor (not the School of Quietude)
So in all innocence I travel from one of my favorite blogs, 3QuarksDaily, to a linked article called “The Dead Chipmunk: An Interrogation into the Mechanisms of Jokes,” by Chris Bachelder. It opens with a pretty funny story about Bachelder and his (her?)* daughter and a dead chipmunk. But then that dread, dusty, scholastic word “interrogation” flaps down buzzard-like onto the creaky branch of the author’s main argument, and all goes awry. “Jokes are rarely if ever in the first person,” Bachelder writes, presumably with a straight face.Read More
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File Under: The Truth Hurts (**Note—Cheerfully Obscene!**)
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Poet Bumper Stickers
Some hilarious items here, including the sure-to-be-perennial… I’m naught kyddyng (as Kent might put it). I should add that this isn’t the actual bumper sticker.Read More
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Koala Tea
I stole the idea for this from the indefatigable John Latta and offer my own version of it here because I thought his set-up was too offhand. A traveler who prides himself on making “local discoveries” is touring Australia and happens to stop for breakfast in a dusty Queensland backwater by the name of Murcie. The café is small but crowded—a good omen, he tells himself—so he takes a stool at the long zinc counter and begins to study the menu mounted high on the wall.Read More
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Writing Jokes (No, Not Writing Them…)
Why did the Language Poet cross the road? The answer to that an other persistent questions here.Read More
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A Greek, a Thracian, and a Phoenician Walk into a Bar…
If you need cheering up as we slide into the Greatest Depression, you can’t go wrong with Philogelos: The Laugh Addict, a translation of jokes from the turn of the fourth century complied by two ancient comedians, Hierocles and Philagrius. No kidding. What’s more, in my humble opinion this eBook produced by Yudu Media represents the future of publishing.Read More
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 20 collections of poems and edited or co-edited three poetry anthologies. He currently directs two master’s-level programs for University College at the University of Denver: Professional Creative Writing and Arts & Culture Management. Joe lives with his wife, Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. 
