by Brent on November 8, 2009
in Random
I don’t want to write right now.
And of all the many things I don’t want to write at this moment, I think what I most not want to write is this sentence right here.
I hate this sentence.
Everything about it.
Its length, its wording, that fact that it’s coming from my keyboard.
I despise it all.
And if there [...]
by Brent on October 26, 2009
in Random
Every so often I like to pause the slow creaking machinery of this publication in order to answer certain burning hypothetical questions which, at least theoretically, could be troubling the minds of readers everywhere.
Here we go…
Yes, I’m still alive.
No, I haven’t been writing here very often.
Yes, I still love you.
No, you can’t move in.
Yes , [...]
Have you ever wondered what sort of timeframe mechanics use to gauge how long a repair will take?
Dog years? Light years? Geological epochs?
This universal question takes on surprising new depths when explored in the steamy environs of the American mid-south.
See for yourself in my latest column for MemphisConnect: Fixin’ to Fix.
Just a reminder/notification/random-particle-of-information that I have a new column up at MemphisConnect.
If you ever wanted to know why there is a church and drug store on every corner in Memphis the answers is there.
Even if you don’t want to know, the answers is still there.
And by there, I mean here: Ask Brent.
Happy Wednesday
Today we interrupt the near ceaseless flow of comic mayhem that normally clogs these portals to bring you exciting news of great relevance to the humor writing world.
My friend Bill Snodgrass is taking submissions for a book of faux-scientific ninja humor to be published under his imprint Double-Edged Publishing…

Due Process
by Guest on July 21, 2008
in Commentary
By Chris Cameron
Last week Brent asked me to be a guest blogger while he was on vacation. Actually it was more like begging and I hate to see a grown man grovel so I said yes. I’m kidding, he paid me. Kidding again, he didn’t ask. I hacked his domain and hijacked today’s post spot because that is how I roll…
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