By GARRISON KEILLOR
GUEST COLUMNIST

I love reading Christmas newsletters in which the writer bursts the bonds of modesty and comes forth with one gilt-edged paragraph after another: "Tara was top scorer on the Lady Cougars soccer team and won the lead role in the college production of 'Antigone,' which, by the way, they are performing in the ( Read more... )

“It is a very sad time when the President of our country-elected to represent the interests of everyday people-chooses his own interests instead, vetoing legislation to reauthorize a successful program with broad bipartisan support. I expect more of the President’s misleading rhetoric in an attempt to excuse this unjustifiable move. While I am ( Read more... )

and some nights there's just nobody left in baltimore, so you just make pancakes instead.

Today I drank a Sioux City Sarsaparilla in Intercourse, PA.

I am looking for recommendations again. This time, I'm in search of good albums to listen to all the way through.

Me? I recommend Music of my Mind by Stevie Wonder.

In other news, the fly infestation in my apartment has been upgraded to moth infestation.

Me? I'm pushing for pelican infestation.

I just had a conversation with the big fly that's cavorting around my kitchen table. Eye contact and everything.

http://www.btinternet.com/~tim.johnson77/rambler/Messiahorganistoncrack.mp3

and some nights you miss just smoking cigarettes and playing rock n roll.

Excluding those by expatriates, Russians, beats, and Tom Robbins, what single work of fiction would you most recommend?

I am an organ major now.

P.S.

Not to be obnoxious, but everybody who can should go vote.