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Hello, readers! As you know, the holiday season is upon us. Posting has been light around here of late due to professional obligations, health care issues, and the usual hubbly bubbly of the season, but we should be back in full swing by the start of 2013 with all your …
Status update: LeonardPierce.com is on temporary hiatus while the proprietor crawls around a Nazi dungeon collecting health boosts. Regular updates of short humor, cultural commentary and political whatnot will return on Monday, October 29. Thank you for your continued support of this site, and if you’d like to send a …
Ladies and gentleman of the American public; friends, supporters, well-wishers, and all gathered members of the press: As the 2012 election draws ever closer, we find ourselves facing what may well be the most important decision of our lives — and perhaps the most important decision in the life our …
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 …
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, …
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, …
Hello, friends and readers! As you probably already know if you are strangely obsessed with the financial peculiarities of people on the internet, I am a full-time freelance writer, and at the moment, 100% of my drastically tiny income is derived from writing. And although I would never suggest that …
I’m glad you asked! My very good friend Cori and I just returned from a week-long trip down into Cajun country, and while I know no one comes here for my travelogues, sit through this one, and I’ll return to the pointless political griping and obscure 10%er comedy in a …
Attention media professionals, academics, authors, popular culture enthusiasts, seekers after wisdom, and other information-needing individuals and/or organizations: today is your lucky day! For today is the day I , Leonard A. Pierce Jr., announce that I am available for consultation on any and all topics — at a highly reasonable …
Welcome to 2012, Ludic legions! Whoa, I was channeling Stan Lee for a minute there, he must have gotten bottle service and nodded off. Anyway, I’d like to take this opportunity to usher in the new year and let you know what’s up for this site and for me in …
If you get paid to write about music, you have to make top ten lists at the end of the year. If you fail to do this Dave Marsh comes to your house and reads you Bruce Springsteen on Tour: 1968-2005 in its entirety. So, here goes, first with my metal …
George Orwell was right about a great number of things, and he was right about them in an extremely eloquent and insightful way. Never was he righter, and never more insightful, than in Chapter III of Down and Out in Paris and London, where he describes the stroke of bad …
I made a fake Muslimgauze song out of found sound tidbits from FreeSound UK. I think you’ll agree it’s pretty good, if you ignore its total lack of rhythmic coherence and song structure. 01 Jamila Fear of Flying
Hey, cats and kittens! My new book, If You Like the Sopranos, is out today! Your local bookstore is just waiting for you to stop by and pick up a copy; you can also order it online from, among other places, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Powell’s, and the publisher, Limelight …
