Barbara Crooker: Treadmill
We lift weights. We
feel great. We
do yoga. We
eat granola.
Sharon Fagan McDermott: I Dream of Kevin Bacon Playing Guitar to his Goats
and I ask him “why you, Kevin Bacon, why
are you in my dream? I’ve not even
watched Footloose all the way through.”
Video: Opulent Round Edible Object
A boy discovers a glitch which enables him to exchange cotton balls for cookies.
Abby Zimet: U.S. Attorney In Charge of Trump Almost Shooting Is Haitian-American
We love the smell of irony and karma in the morning.
Jose Padua: The Shape I’m In
it was the middle of a Lower East Side winter and the heat
in my apartment that night was up so high, after being completely out
for a week, that I couldn’t help but feel sexy, knowing I had pork buns
in my tiny fridge
Abby Zimet: OMG Now They’re Coming For Our Cats and Chairs and Ducks
Sheesh. The Crazy Train just keeps clattering on.
Video: Charlie Chaplin Swallowed by a Factory Machine — Modern Times (1936)
In Chaplin’s last performance as the iconic Little Tramp, his character struggles to survive in the modern, industrialized world.
Abby Zimet: MAGA’s Hell On Earth | Women’s Rights, Child Care, Free School Lunch and Cat Hair
From one glad patriot, “The blue wave is coming, and it is covered in cat hair.”
Christine Rhein: Attack of the Five-Foot-Four Woman
In truth, only five foot three and a half,
and attack, too, a bit of a stretch
Barbara Hamby: Ode to Skimpy Clothes and August in the Deep South
A young woman is walking with her boyfriend, and it’s deep
summer in the South, like being in a sauna
but hotter and stickier
Video: No Vegans Allowed
This motel decided to ban vegans and their mighty libido.
Jim Minick: Sighs
How they wallop with softness,
how they soothe with the slow rush
of wind through the forest in your dog’s nose,
each follicle a pine to sing a contented song
Abby Zimet: Taking On Bigots, Yahoos and Perpetrators Of All Kinds
Talk about flipping the script. Within days, in an historic act of grace, old Joe did the “right and honorable thing” and handed the reins to Kamala, “in every possible way (the) anti-Trump,” who ran with them.
David Kirby: Ode to Asparagus
O wonder! O brave new world, that has such vegetables in it.
