Category Archives: humor

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY

Posted on February 14, 2019 by Gary Garth McCann
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AFRAID OF BEING CAUGHT WANTING SOMETHING YOU SHOULDN’T?

Posted on November 16, 2018 by Gary Garth McCann
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THEY DON’T TALK ON THEIR CELL PHONES, BUT THEY DON’T DANCE ON THE PLATFORMS, EITHER.

Posted on August 23, 2018 by Gary Garth McCann

On French trains passengers must move into the vestibule, where the restrooms are, to talk on their cell phones. They do this without exception, without fault. So mannerly, so polite the French. They don’t, however, dance on the platform, as … Continue reading →

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Young and in Love?

Posted on June 22, 2018 by Gary Garth McCann

  My novella from Bold Strokes Books. Cal State engineering student Hardy tries not to repeat all the mistakes of his gay-supportive but womanizing father. Hardy is too young for a husband, but not too young to fall for bi … Continue reading →

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The girls blow the boys? I beg your pardon?

Posted on June 22, 2018 by Gary Garth McCann

How language changes. “On Sunday afternoon the girls blow the boys to a picnic.” From Life magazine, 1949. It means the girls paid for everything. The article was about how an Ohio State boy made five dollars last him for a … Continue reading →

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ANOTHER REASON TO HAVE A PROSTATE EXAM

Posted on April 21, 2018 by Gary Garth McCann

Republished from a tweet by Helen @Hells4Heroes

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EVA KAPITAN, NOVELIST, PUBLISHER, JOYOUS LAUGHER, DIED APRIL 4, 2018

Posted on April 15, 2018 by Gary Garth McCann

Author of the novels Lovers, Grapes and Crimes and Murder at the Wine Cask Inn, also proprietor of A Few Good Books Publishing, Eva selected quotations to appear on A Few Good Books Publishing web page that tell more about her than I could … Continue reading →

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Wherever you go, there it is: home town, U.S.A.

Posted on March 28, 2018 by Gary Garth McCann

“This was a world of vast parking lots connected to one another by roads that, due to congestion, often looked like vast parking lots. Every motel, restaurant, pet shop, and cinema was part of a national chain, giving the whole … Continue reading →

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“Where else but in America would our beastly relatives have had the freedom to behave as abominably as they did?”

Posted on March 7, 2018 by Gary Garth McCann

Last night I heard this line on the 1960s Dobie Gillis show and immediately thought of the present day and of a certain person whose descendants might need it.

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Happy Valentine’s Day

Posted on February 14, 2018 by Gary Garth McCann

Valentine’s Day in Annapolis signals the approach of Spring, often with daffodils already up. It’s a day for a manhattan and a chocolate eclair. It can also be a day of comedy, as Niles Crane proves while getting ready for … Continue reading →

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