Oral Hygiene on the Half Shell
{excerpt from UBER NIGHTS} So, about the Naked Lady with the Toothbrush who hopped into my Uber… Things simply “happen” to me. They always have. If you and I sat down over a bottle of bourbon, I could regale you with tale after tale, from the mountain jungles of Haiti to Sinai Desert […]
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Jun, 13, 2021
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An Instance of Faith in the Dumbass Fat Toad in the Sky
Reaching way down deep tonight. I’m not in the midst of a crisis of faith. It’s an instance of faith…and I’m going to be as succinct as I can…but it’s kind of a Thomas Aquinas thing. I gave a fellow human being a ride tonight—someone who I thought was a stranger—but he turned […]
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- Jan, 21, 2021
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To Hell, and Back Again: An Interview with Arik Bjorn about his Novel “The Prodigal”
My former City Paper colleague, Jaroslav Dampfstain, said he wouldn’t mind if I posted this interview on my website while he shops it about to various periodicals. Thanks, JD! My novel, THE PRODIGAL, will be published on September 1. Click this link to buy it! //// Author Arik Bjorn tends to stand out […]
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- Aug, 27, 2020
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“The Prodigal: a divine comedy, of sorts”: Preview 2020
This is worth your read all the way through. But the giant hippo should have been a clue, as to that. 🙂 On a quiet Christmas Eve in 1998, I was working as a contract senior editor; my job was putting together the daily transcripts for National Public Radio. That day, a rerun […]
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- Jun, 29, 2020
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The Parable of the COVID
After a day spent teaching the noodlehead masses all manner of science and technology, from chemotherapy to pneumatics to security analytics, the rabbi finally rested his derriere on a bench near a pond. (Due to coronavirus, the rabbi first sprayed the bench mightily with Lysol.) The paparazzi had yet to discover the rabbi’s […]
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- May, 10, 2020
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I think Uber Nights is the perfect bathroom book. If there are any public libraries out there listening, I think they should put a copy in every stall.
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