Bitchin’ crew bewitches clueless blogger — Read Part 1 of The Taggler Nate began moving in slow circles, vibrating like a player on one of those old Electric Football game boards. He slithered and shook, made serpentine figure eights and a series of overlapping circles. It was bizarre but riveting. Soon, others joined in, humming and…

Unrepentant blogger stung and besotted — Most stories I go looking for. This one found me. And only because my years as a gumshoe scribe and general reprobate had heightened certain senses but dulled others — namely the ones known as “common” and “good.” Sure, I knew how to tell a knock-off Rolex from the real…

New from Amerikan Stanturd and the My Pillow guy — Are you tired of golf buddies, vendors you stiffed, ex-wives, current wives, goombahs, porn stars, second cousins once removed, the FSB, the FBI, DOJ, or SDNY nosing around in your garbage? …

Poetry — The sun is like a bomb exploding mushroom morphing gray and gold one last gasp of gaudy splendor slicing stratus shaft of light silver rippling o’er the sea swaths of broken lilac painted strokes that say goodbye to someone fading fast a day is born to die Swarm of midges milling fall…

Tales from the trenches of latex and sequins — Those were happier times, if not simpler ones. That was before the walls caved in, before all the paths of escape were closed to us. Before the party ended. Before life as we knew it changed forever. There was no time to prepare. No time to pack. We left with…

House of Rep hecklers will work for food — These last few years, many of us came to realize how much we’ve taken food service workers for granted. Hopefully, we’re beginning to recognize and appreciate how much we depend on these front-line heroes for crucial, everyday needs. While we all stayed home, they risked their well-being — their very…

The only history you’ll ever need — Are you an undergrad who just didn’t have time to crack a book this semester because, well, “that game of Beer Pong ain’t gonna play itself, bruh”? Or maybe, you’re a spokesperson for a high-ranking official with a nasty temper and a tenuous relationship with reality. Oh, wait! I know…

You’ve probably seen commercials for English as a Second Language (ESL) courses on your TV. Or maybe you’ve come across an ESL ad while browsing online. But what if you’re not one of those “foreign types”? What if you were born right here in the good ol’ USA, but you…