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The Jerry Duncan Show New Year’s Eve Party

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The Jerry Duncan Show New Year’s Eve Party
Dean Kaner
Dean B. Kaner is a playwright and screenwriter, having co-produced and co-written plays for the stage with performances in New York City, Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Boston, Detroit, Phoenix and Memphis. Check out The Jerry Duncan Show on YouTube, as well as on Instagram, and the sketch comedy A Bit of Biden (on Instagram) and at @abitofbiden on TikTok.
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Wherein our intrepid talk radio show host interviews the one and only Santa Claus at a New Year’s Eve party in Wasilla, Alaska.  ANNOUNCER From under a rock … Read more

A Cup – If Not a Tankard – O’Kindness

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Howard R. Wolf
Emeritus Professor of English at SUNY-Buffalo
Howard R. Wolf is Emeritus Professor of English and Senior Fellow at SUNY-Buffalo and the author of three memoirs, a novel (Broadway Serenade), personal essays, and many short stories.A Fulbright Scholar in Turkey and South Africa,he is now putting together a collection ofstories, EXILES BY STARLIGHT, and a play, HOME AT THE END OF THEDAY. Mr. Wolf is a graduate of Horace Mann School, Amherst College(BA), Columbia (MA), and The University of Michigan (PH.D) where he won a Hopwood for fiction. Howard lives in Amherst, New York where he writes and cultivates a small garden.
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A friend in Peterborough, New Hampshire (Thornton Wilder’s model for Our Town), just taught her last class after sixty years of pedagogy during which time she devoted herself … Read more

Strange Phenomenon Baffles Experts

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Strange Phenomenon Baffles Experts
Hala Dika
Hala Dika is an impoverished poet living in her parent's basement. Slowly losing all concept of money, she lives in a delusion of happiness. She hopes one day to be recognized posthumously.
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Experts have been perplexed by a strange phenomenon occurring worldwide involving political, religious and racial differences. A strange phenomenon seems to be occurring throughout the world. It appears … Read more

Santa Claus Asks Biden for Help with Reindeer Strike

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Santa Claus Asks Biden for Help with Reindeer Strike
Ted Holland
Ted Holland
Ted holland attended college for four years. The year that he bothered to go to class he studied history. He majored in throwing quarters in the jukebox in the Student Union canteen and minored in a girl named Marsha. His books include This Day In African American Musicand B Western Actors Encyclopedia.
Ted Holland
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Dispatches from SNN (Slobovian News Network) Santa Claus has appealed to President Biden for help in avoiding a planned reindeer strike this year. SNN North Pole reporter Freezyn … Read more

A Maxi-Holiday for a Mini-Herd

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A Maxi-Holiday for a Mini-Herd
Howard R. Wolf
Emeritus Professor of English at SUNY-Buffalo
Howard R. Wolf is Emeritus Professor of English and Senior Fellow at SUNY-Buffalo and the author of three memoirs, a novel (Broadway Serenade), personal essays, and many short stories.A Fulbright Scholar in Turkey and South Africa,he is now putting together a collection ofstories, EXILES BY STARLIGHT, and a play, HOME AT THE END OF THEDAY. Mr. Wolf is a graduate of Horace Mann School, Amherst College(BA), Columbia (MA), and The University of Michigan (PH.D) where he won a Hopwood for fiction. Howard lives in Amherst, New York where he writes and cultivates a small garden.
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Wilma the bison has been alone too long. At twenty-nine, advanced age for a bison, she now will be part of a mini-herd. I was pleased to learn … Read more

A ‘Locally Grown’ Thanksgiving

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Jim Hightower
Jim Hightower
National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of the book, "Swim Against The Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow," Jim Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be - consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks.

Twice elected Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Hightower is a modern-day Johnny Appleseed, spreading the message of progressive populism all across the American grassroots.

He broadcasts daily radio commentaries that are carried in more than 150 commercial and public stations and on the web.
Jim Hightower
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“Locally grown” is developing the cachet of wholesomeness that “organically grown” once carried. Harry Truman said: “No man should be president who doesn’t understand hogs.” The problem with … Read more

A Chat about Santa

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A Chat about Santa
Lawrence Millman
Lawrence Millman is the author of 18 books, including such titles as Last Places, A Kayak Full of Ghosts, Our Like Will Not Be There Again, Hiking to Siberia, At the End of the World, Fungipedia, and — forthcoming — The Last Speaker of Bear. Shop for his books at Thrift Books and other book sellers.
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My companion said it was time to have a chat about Santa, noting that Saint Nicholas was yet another Jesus devotee. On a late summer day, God and … Read more

The Jerry Duncan Show Interviews Reindeer Farmer Arvin Erickson

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The Jerry Duncan Show Interviews Reindeer Farmer Arvin Erickson
Dean Kaner
Dean B. Kaner is a playwright and screenwriter, having co-produced and co-written plays for the stage with performances in New York City, Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Boston, Detroit, Phoenix and Memphis. Check out The Jerry Duncan Show on YouTube, as well as on Instagram, and the sketch comedy A Bit of Biden (on Instagram) and at @abitofbiden on TikTok.
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Wherein our intrepid talk radio show host interviews Arvin Erickson, a reindeer farmer from Wasilla, Alaska. ANNOUNCER Live from under a rock in your backyard, it’s The Jerry … Read more

Mouseguest: A Poem

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Mouseguest: A Poem
Jerry Robbins
Jerry Robbins is a graduate of Gettysburg College, Yale University Divinity School and the Hartford Seminary Foundation, where he earned a Ph.D. He is the editor of The Essential Luther (Baker) and the author of Carevision (Judson) and Provocables (C.S.S.). Jerry has published several articles and over 100 book reviews and received the Joseph Sittler Award for Writing.Since retiring to Florida in 2001, he has turned his attention to novelty writing projects.
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Mouseguest Come Dear Mouse be our guest And may your weary head find rest Not upon our little bed But out in the garage instead I think you’ll … Read more

Troubles at the North Pole: An Interview with Santa

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Troubles at the North Pole: An Interview with Santa
JC Wade
J. Wade is a retired Chief Financial Officer from Missouri. He has had humor articles published in the Humor Times, USA Today, The Journal of Irreproducible Results and Unhinged Magazine, which is now defunct (not his fault).
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In an exclusive interview with Santa himself, our correspondent uncovers some troubling trends! It’s only November but it’s already beginning to look a lot like Christmas. I see … Read more

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