Month: June 2024

It was All Just a Dream

I wasn’t able to watch the debate last night but when I got home, I streamed Jon Stewart’s breakdown of it in absolute horror, and then I went to bed and had – I shit you not -one of the most horrific and realistic nightmares that I have ever experienced. When I awoke in a cold sweat this morning, I found Hack sleeping on my front porch in a pool of his own vomit and related my dream to him. Twenty minutes later, he had cranked out this manuscript. It made me feel a little better.

Junior Ranger and the Mystery of Injun Glenn’s Cave

Bro Joe wrote a marvelous article about being a Junior Ranger, the highlight of which was a touching anecdote about how he lost his hiking hat with his Junior Ranger pins attached to it and how the folks at the various parks he asked for help from were so kind in sending replacements.

When Hack heard the story, he was far too drunk to comprehend it but it made enough of an impression that (after waking up in a pool of his own tears and vomit a few days later) he was able to pen this novelization of Joe’s adventure as he understood it. It’s a pretty solid read.

Something Very Bad Was Coming

When Hack’s cover artist Jonny M.’s Bro Joe posted an amusing story on his Facebook wall about how an obnoxious beatnik dragged a gigantic speaker into a Starbucks he was at to blast his personal music through its loudspeakers to the annoyance of everyone around him. But Joe lost Hack’s sympathy when he wrote of the man “He is also wearing a beret, so I knew something very bad was coming” since the beret is famously Jonny’s headwear of choice and Hack doesn’t like anyone besides himself to publicly mock his collaborator. So Hack crapped out this angry response to Bro Joe’s missive depicting him as a MAGA-loving redneck. It’s actually a pretty accurate depiction.