Category Archives: Mishegas

I can’t let New Year’s Day go by without reporting this weirdness

My sister, Doctor Deb, a serious physician with our family sense of absurdist humor, called from her car to tell me this: When driving through Sleepy Hollow, she has passed a store called Ashes to Glasses without thinking more about … Continue reading

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Notice: the jailhouse will no longer rock

From Harper’s Weekly Review: [I]n Missouri, a county circuit judge notorious for wearing an Elvis Presley wig on the bench and swearing in witnesses to Presley’s music shall no longer hold judicial office.

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How to lift the ambient mood

From Harper’s Weekly Review: “I’m alive,” said a man who was presumed to be dead, turning up at his own funeral.

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