Come with us back to 1964… Edited by P. J. O’Rourke and Doug Kenney, National Lampoon 1964 High School Yearbook Parody was first published in 1973. Although it was a parody, the original publication actually appeared to be a real yearbook from C. Estes Kefauver High School in Dacron, Ohio. Of course, there is no…
by Kurt Vonnegut – a Kilgore Trout story… “In the beginning there was absolutely nothing, and I mean nothing” he said. “But nothing implies something, just as up implies down and sweet implies sour, as man implies woman and drunk implies sober and happy implies sad. I hate to tell you this, friends and neighbors,…
by Pussy-whipped Philly… . “I’m proud to say: I am now officially a member of the Me Too movement. I know I’m a man, but men can be members too. It’s not gender that determines eligibility, it’s understanding.” Me Too! is the latest in the Flashbytes series from worst-selling author Philip Loyd. Not…
If you like MAD like we like MAD, then come take a stroll down memory lane with the magazine’s 2nd issue in 1952. Enter – If you dare…
Excerpt… “I was once picked up by the police on Fatty Arbuckle’s front lawn. Of course, by then Fatty—who preferred to be called Roscoe—had moved on. Arbuckle died in 1933. And this was the mid-eighties, before the dawn of the Crack Era. Street dealers dotted that no-longer upscale strip of Adams Boulevard, near downtown Los…
You may have seen the new movie on Netflix. Now, read the book… In the 1950s, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, was the kind of place where Americans believed that Father Knows Best patriarch Jim Anderson could raise Kitten, Bud, and Princess in a big fine home with total comfort and domestic bliss on an insurance…
God, she thought lying in bed naked and re-reading Aldington’s Portrait of a Genius, But… he’s an impostor! Not D.H. Lawrence, but her husband-Henry-with his bauble of a belly and all the hair he never combed and the way he stood around in his shorts, and the way he stood naked before the window like…
If you like MAD like we like MAD, then come take a stroll down memory lane with MAD Magazine Issue 1 – Oct. 1952 Enter Here – If you dare… Come check out a whole mess of great Mad Magazine publications at Amazon.com. See more MAD Magazine right here on Flashbytes… Founded by publisher…
Excerpt… We stopped mid-afternoon for tea and cakes. Vera was very vacant and morose. She was working something through. I decided it wasn’t the moment to disturb her meditations. The cream tea was magic. Perhaps now she can be cheered up? ‘I feel sorry for blokes with beards and mustaches,’ I started. ‘I’ve nothing against…
by Richard Hoffman… “Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!” The fat man is yelling at a large red Mercury backing toward the boy who’s standing frozen with the shopping cart. The windows on the Mercury are down, and the music is loud. The car is shining; even the tailpipes are polished. It stops, rocking; the driver has slammed…
