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Published in: HomeAuthentic foon
Our Sunday Comics author recalls three experiences of intense culinary and self-transportation
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Published in: HomeIn your ear
A quarter of all e-commerce will be conducted by mobile devices by 2016. Our Sunday Comics columnist, after a...
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Published in: HomeSunday Comics: Die
As six heads of state try and dominate chance in a darkened room, our Sunday Comics columnist takes us on a journey...
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Published in: HomeDirector to Brad Pitt: “Cue audio for deep-fat cultural self-destruction”
Our Sunday Comics columnist on TV cook Paula Deen's racist comments, the true nature of Southern gentility, and the...
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Published in: HomeJust another poor boy
Our Sunday Comics columnist reflects on the various origins of poor boys
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Published in: HomeSkewed food & military surveillance: that means six-count shrimp, three-for-one catfish, and two-engine bigeyed bombers
As a storm approaches our Sunday Comics columnist finds himself between the bounties of the Gulf of Mexico, the...
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Published in: HomeSex changes, groupies, and drag queens - all in the family
Our Sunday Comics columnist dips his toes into the water and considers the social and sexual flexibility of the...
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Published in: HomeNo control panel
Struck by malevolent storms our Sunday Comics columnist finds the ardour and expense of repairs compounded by the...
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Published in: HomeDying and killing, killing and dying
Our columnist explores the language and the headlines of dying and killing, from Tibet to the United States to Iraq.
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Published in: HomeTwo girlfriends, a Buick, & a flamingo - chapter eight
Buick returns in the final part of Jim Gabour's story from Blue Moons, Texas. (Start from the beginning of the story here)
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Published in: HomeTwo girlfriends, a Buick & a flamingo - chapter seven
Childhood friends Betty Daniels and Matty Sue Franklin - now both widows - are reunited in the public housing...
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Published in: HomeTwo girlfriends, a Buick & a flamingo - chapter six
In the sixth slice of life from Blue Moons, Texas we learn about a certain Estelle Flamingo and a moonlit leap of...
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Published in: HomeTwo girlfriends, a Buick & a flamingo - chapter five
Diana Flatrock dresses up to relive her confusing encounters with Buick and Anais Nin in a motel confessional before...
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Published in: HomeTwo girlfriends, a Buick, & a flamingo - chapter four
Buick trades his guitar for a pair of boots and is on the road again, accomodating the presence of a hard-drinking...
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Published in: HomeTwo girlfriends, a Buick, & a flamingo - chapter three
In the third installment of the story, Betty's son Buick discovers the guitar and Diana Flatrock. Diana and Buick...
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Published in: HomeTwo girlfriends, a Buick, & a flamingo - chapter two
In the second installment of the author's story of two childhood girlfriends we hear from Betty's prodigious son...
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Published in: HomeTwo girlfriends, a Buick, & a flamingo - chapter one
As Betty Daniels and Matty Sue Franklin grew older, the childhood friends braved each their own hardships and...
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Published in: HomeA seasonal religion
As our author - clad in detritus - prepares himself for tomorrow's Mardis Gras and the forecast of huge lightning...
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Published in: HomeLiving with murder
Following the Sandy Hook shooting, our Sunday Comics author remembers how his family were the victims of random gun...