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https://youtu.be/sefscV3GvWM The opening shot of Lauren Woolstencroft’s Super Bowl Commercial shows her as an infant born with two half legs and one and a half arms. My first thought was,…
Humor writer Mike Lukas blogs on multiple topics.
https://youtu.be/sefscV3GvWM The opening shot of Lauren Woolstencroft’s Super Bowl Commercial shows her as an infant born with two half legs and one and a half arms. My first thought was,…
The situation is the boss. That’s a concept I just learned from watching the Grateful Dead documentary ‘Long Strange Trip’ on Amazon Prime. It was the philosophy adopted by the…
Let’s all just take a big online breath here…and dance. Just a suggestion: click off the never-ending battle between the political left and right for a sec and pop on…
Gentlemen, the Women’s Marches tomorrow aren’t just for women. At least the one I went to last year in Dallas wasn’t. Don’t get me wrong, it was ALL about empowering…
My children got to watch Butchy, an Oak Cliff ‘sugar glider’, fly. Well, technically a petite gliding possum that’d been hiding in what looked like a light brown sock in…
In the early seventies, my great-aunt Myrtle would say the N-word at restaurants. She’d always treat my family to a big meal at one of the Lithuanian joints near her…
My Brownies went 0-16 and some fans threw a big parade. 3,200 diehards showed up Saturday, January 6th in sub-zero wind chill to ironically celebrate the Cleveland Brown’s ‘perfect’ season. …
Many December thirty-firsts ago, my wife Gretchen and I decided to shift our yearly resolutions into a more productive direction. No more dwelling on the negative habits we disliked about…
Sometimes people who street-beg aren’t who they say they are. A three-year-old girl holding a Toys for Tots can asked my friend Meredith for a donation at the busy CVS…
Too many ‘men behaving badly’ stories lately – here’s a tale of some boys being sweet. My wife and I went to our pre-k son’s holiday party. Twenty-eight 5-year-olds wearing…
Our water was off for a day and my family barely survived. The neighborhood water main had busted at two in the afternoon, flooding the streets and shutting down water…
This will be my 52nd Christmas. My attitude towards the commercial side of this yearly celebration has evolved over the last half century. My journey of yuletide gifting began in…
Memory check – title and author of the first full novel you ever read. Since I’m the one asking willie nillie, I’ll go first. That’ll give you a few minutes…
How should a gentleman react to Time Magazine’s choice of Person of the Year? Time has named "the Silence Breakers" - women who spoke out against sexual abuse and harassment…
In January, a local magazine article will feature my family and my daughter hates it. The Advocate interviewed us for a series it’s doing on the Dallas Independent School District…
The first guest to my daughter’s party arrived twenty-five minutes early. Seriously, Darlene? Nobody who’s ever hosted a party would do that to someone. My wife was just hopping out…
Heckling is easy – that’s why idiots do it. 100% of the hecklers I encountered in my twenty-four year standup career were both drunk and ignorant. If you think about…
Our clothes dryer died without warning last night. Lady Kenmore still spins but there’s no more heat in her belly. She was supposed to dry some end-of-the-day whites but when…
This morning my house was barf-central. My five-year-old son caught a stomach bug and heaved in his bed while sleeping. My wife had to take care of him, though, because…
Nothing sweeter than watching an idiot get what they deserve. Have you seen the Alabama Crimson Tide woman who got busted last Saturday for smoking in her seat at the…