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“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.” — Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow I have a pretty shaky educational history. I skipped kindergarten; I went to a religious grade school whose course of study was not especially rigorous; and I dropped out …
Death, we are reminded every time someone dies*, comes in threes. A good truism; a strong truism; and most importantly, a truism that can be stated in less than five words, making sure it will lodge in our consciousness before we get bored and go off to play video games …
Recently, I was listening to the latest episode of Hold My Order, Terrible Dresser, one of my all-time favorite podcasts. Although the week’s guests were not familiar to me, I was delighted, as both a drunk and a huge RPG nerd, to learn that one of them manages a pub in …
My friend Tom Block is in serious trouble and needs our help. Let me tell you about Tom. He’s smart , funny , a great storyteller , a terrific writer , and a critic of unusual insight . He’s lived a life many of us would love to lead. Most recently he took …
Hi, loyal readers! LP dot com will be taking the next week to celebrate Christmas with loved ones. I hope you have a chance to do the same. If you celebrate Christmas in a religious way, may Baby Jesus smile on you and yours. If you celebrate it in a …
Thanksgiving posts may not be obligatory – believe me, I’d much rather be getting drunk and cooking, and I don’t think anyone in the world would care if I did – but giving thanks, especially if you’ve been as lucky as I am, is mandatory. So, as 2015 starts to …
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Hello, dearest readers of Leonard Pierce dot com: Perhaps you thought I was deceased. Perhaps you thought that this blog was as dead as Jacob Marley, as passé as Bob Marley, as irrelevant as Marley Marl. Nothing could be further from the truth. I, Leonard Pierce, for whom Leonard Pierce …
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The question came over a week ago, from one of my oldest friends: why don’t you write about politics anymore? At first, it struck me as an absurd thing to ask: don’t I write about politics all the damn time? Didn’t I write for one of the internet’s spunkiest lefty …
LeonardPierce.com will be taking the next few days off to celebrate the coming of the new year. Have a happy holiday, wherever and whoever you are, and I hope to see you here the first week of 2014 for some dad-blasted new content and other surprises. Cheers!
Hello there, ell p dot com readers! Your stumblebum author, from whom the site derives its name, is working on a major writing project to which he will be devoting the cheetah’s share of his ‘free’ time to completing, so content will be light for the next few whenevers. The …
Each year at this time, the Grady McPhailey Foundation releases a list of the annual recipients of the McPhailey Foundation Scholarship Grant, popularly known as the ‘Grady Train’. Mr. McPhailey, heir to the McPhailey Ear Shortener fortune, spent his 72 years on Earth attempting to be a poet. Although he …
April 1st: I am a worthwhile human being with much to offer. April 2nd: I will not allow myself to be hindered by the judgments of others. April 3rd: I am creative and intelligent. April 4th: I am in control of my own life. April 5th: I am having an …
Hey, folks. Do you know Fiasco? You should: Jason Morningstar‘s cleverly constructed, tonally perfect role-playing game (available from Bully Pulpit Games) is one of the greatest things going these days. Built for 3-5 players, with minimal dice-rolling, few rules, and no game-master, it’s perfect if you enjoy dark, cynical crime movies, film …
