Hello, readers! Things are tough all over, and no mistake. But they’d be a little less tough here at leonardpierce.com if you’d consider buying one of the many products and services I have to offer at the moment. If you’re reading this site, it’s presumably because you like what I do; and …
Regina Spektor’s reputation — around these parts, anyway — is that of a Tori Amos who avoided, by dint of growing up in Reagan-era Soviet Russia, a youthful overdose on self-impressed whimsy. The comparison’s not entirely fair; aside from being attractive quasi-redheads with an affection for piano and theatricality, the …
I like baseball. One might even say that I love baseball, although it is a love, much like that of the love I bear for my imaginary spouse of twelve years Uma Thurman, that is almost entirely one-sided. The point is, even when my beloved White Sox are not playing, …
5 YEARS OF THE WORLD’S WORST TREATMENT and still this slave kept working! From the rugged lands of the Pacific Northwest comes this remarkable story of a slave who never stopped slaving! “It was in 2014,” writes Dr. Henry K. Pachinko, now of Cairo, IL, “that my wife purchased this …
As you may have heard from the non-giant-squid-related portions of the Internet, the E3 show has just wrapped up in Los Angeles. E3, which is an abbreviation of convenience for “Electrical Amusements Jamboree and Fun Fair”, is best described as similar to the Consumer Electronics Show, only all the prostitutes …
“Now look, baby, ‘union’ is spelled with five letters. It is not a four-letter-word.” (Dorothy Parker) For anyone who believes in progress, equality, or the idea that America’s greatness expresses itself in ways other than the accumulation of wealth and power by the bosses, last night’s recall vote in Wisconsin …
“Walk in my footsteps. It’ll be easier.” François Truffaut’s conundrum about the impossibility of making an anti-war film has been reheated and turned over until it’s become inedible; a fresher tidbit for us to chew on is how national cinemas portray war based on their own experiences of it. In …
I was just checking my files, and amazingly, this little dandy has never appeared on my website, residing only in the archives of Von Flue Art Studios. And folks, even though it is a cartoon about a video game character from several years ago, it deserves better than that. I …
As much as I liked the music I was now doing, I think my name in the clubs was still shit, and a lot of critics probably still thought I was a junkie. I wasn’t real popular at this time, but that began to change after I played at the …
For someone who has written an exciting new collection of short humor that you should buy immediately, I’ve never been particularly adept at writing, or even telling, jokes. Jokes are rigidly formalist and require a kind of ingenuity in the telling that I’ve never quite been able to master. You’ll …
Hello, friends and readers! I’m extremely pleased to announce the arrival of my newest book, Moods from Marbletown. It’s a collection of short humor pieces collected from my previous writings as well as some brand-new material to make it worth the jingle. If you’re a fan of smart, literate written …
Hello friends, readers, and worldwide strangers! If you’re reading these words, it’s because you’ve stopped by on the day I launch a major overhaul of my home on the Internet. It’s the biggest, most ambitious, and most complex upgrade to the site I’ve ever made in ten years of blogging, …
I cannot remember much, I cannot feel much. Maybe erasure is necessary. Maybe the human spirit defends itself as the body does, attacking infection, enveloping and destroying those malignancies that would otherwise consume us. (Tim O’Brien) On Veteran’s Day, we are told only to honor those who have served this …
Well, I guess I am a rather interesting man — refined, intelligent. But that stomach, that stomach! (Baron Cefalù) You never know what caprice will keep you away from a movie, and what whim will draw you in. Even during the last few years, when I’ve finally gotten around to educating …
Thanks to recent “data”, I am sad to report that it is no longer permitted to talk about the following topics until all the other problems in the world have been completely solved, beginning with global poverty and ending with the fact that there is nowhere near my apartment to …
