sometimes it’s your fault that it is someone elses fault

a little asshole math  Or shake the  people sieve This time of year can be extra stressful and depressing,  so usually I try to put out more work to keep you all (and myself) distracted from the holiday season, but my heart’s just not in it this year…My personal life… Continue reading

You can’t make this stuff up…because they’ll use it.

I’d like you long time readers of Arsenic Lullaby to think back about 8 years to the first story involving the United States Department of Things Not yet Tried. It was a fictional government agency with no specific purpose, hidden deep in the bowels of the bureaucracy of the census… Continue reading

boo hoo hoo the Native Americans…PASS THE TURKEY.

Nothing is more tiresome than well meaning wannabe intellectuals ruining things for everyone.  I say “well meaning” to be kind but if you put a gun to my head I would say “people who want to feel smarter than everyone else” Every thanksgiving we have to hear from these cretins… Continue reading

Funny is funny…and there are reasons.

“The key element in any attempt at humor is conflict. Our brain is suddenly jolted into trying to accept something that is unacceptable. “ Gary Larson Stay with me for a minute, and you’re going to learn an awful lot about comedy writting. Every once in a while some back… Continue reading

philosophy in lue of working

  I have a strange memory.  When I was in first or second grade, they would pass out this catalog, it was actually a four page flyer, of books you could order. I think it was called the Scholastic Book Service or something like that. You could order say “you’re… Continue reading

Oh, you support “independents” do you?

so you support independent work? Arsenic Lullaby is an independently owned property. This means I make the final decisions.  This means I decide what is funny enough, drawn well enough, and deserves to see the light of day.  No editors second guessing or putting a halt to anything because it… Continue reading

In Maine…there seems to be something…missing.

My first culture shock came during my visit to Maine or You are about to enter another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind…but a dimension with no football. I have been all over this country introducing people to the sick glory that is Arsenic… Continue reading

Foreshadowing?

I know it seems like I shoot my mouth off a lot, but if you pay attention you’ll notice I’m not one of those guys who boasts about things he “going to do”.  I shoot my mouth off about things I’ve done or that I know for sure are going… Continue reading

aw crap, I’m old.

My birthday is Nov.23.  It’s a big one.  I won’t tell you how old I’m going to be, because you wouldn’t believe me anyhow…I’m way to pretty to be that old.   I’ve accomplished a lot..and there are only a few things I’d still like to do, but the normal question… Continue reading

Moving part 1

  CH CH CH CHANGES… or Saying goodby to a deathtrap. The thing I will remember most about my old apartment was the menacing electrical surge/noise/vibration that intermittently rattled the side of the house when the wind blew. The house was so old the wiring was the kind you see… Continue reading

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