From
The Shepherd Express:
I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world,
ain’a? Well well, another Father’s Day right around the corner, which as
tradition dictates, I must say that what with the bad rap fathers have
got in the press and on the TV for far too long, I’m surprised the day
is celebrated at all. Cripes, why don’t they just go ahead and change Father’s Day to Deadbeat Dad’s Day, or Workaholic Dad-You’re-Never-Around-The-Focking-House-When-We-Need-You Day, what the fock.
(Quick sidenote: A hearty thanks to A. & J. from the Milwaukee
South for their correspondence during the Art Kumbalek Spring Fund Me
Drive. It’s appreciated and I plan to follow the enclosed directions,
indeed.)
Anyways, I was listening to Frank Sinatra’s croon Cole Porter’s great
tune “So In Love” the other day, and with a little research was
reminded that it’s been 21-focking-years from last month since the
Chairman of the Board (Broad?) got served the pink slip from this life,
so as to go serenade the lusher life we expect to enjoy in the Great
Beyond. And it’s taken 21 years for me to realize that in his absence,
it is now high time up to me, you betcha, to save Western culture, if
not the whole goddamn civilization. I don’t want to blow my own horn,
but you know I always did have an inkling, if not a hankering, it would
come to this, I kid you not.
And this torch that I’ve belatedly found I won’t allow to be drowned.
No sir, I’ve got high hopes to caretake the torch so that it continues
to burn baby, burn brightly all through these dark ages until things get
modern again, when I can pass the focking flame to another smart-mouth
wise-ass with a bad attitude who comes down the pike, or something like
that.
But to save Western civilization, I’m going to need some start-up
scratch; which means here comes my sort-of semiannual summertime pitch
so’s to address a word or two to the kids who number themselves as
members of my readership family:
Hey kids, summer’s just begun and I’m pretty focking certain that
before you know it, you’ll be good and goddamn bored with shoplifting,
stealing bikes or having your own bike stolen. So listen, it’s never too
soon to think about the future and just what the fock it is you’re
going to do to earn your dime. Hey, maybe you ought to think about being
a professional writer like me, and I’ll tell you why.
For starters, you mostly don’t have to go anywhere to do it. You can
just stay home, which is focking great ’cause with no boss around, you
can have the TV on all day long if you focking feel like it and an
ashtray is always at arm’s length. And it’s the kind of job where there
is no limit to the number of excuses that can be used for not doing it
and how do you beat that, ain’a?
Hell, a lot of these writers come out with only one book every other
year. That’s 730 days and the book is like 200 pages long. That means,
to be a productive writer, you only have to write one focking page every
3-and-a-half days—piece of cake, what the fock.
And to boot, writers write on a computer, lo, these days, so when you
can’t think of what to write, you can while away the hours perusing
various free porn sites and learn a thing or two that could help make
your first date a rousing success.
So if you think this lifestyle sounds attractive, tell your mom and
pop you want to be a writer, and to send Art Kumbalek a cashier’s check
for $250, and I’ll get you enrolled in the Art Kumbalek Summer School of
Juvenile Writing. In the meantime, don’t forget to never dig a hole too
deep that you can’t get out, and never ever mix good booze with soda.
And in conclusion, it’s time for me to go and get over by the
Uptowner tavern/charm school where I shall recruit mine own personal Rat
Pack so as to save whatever civilization we got left; and also,
speaking of anniversaries, to toast not only fathers, but also sons,
with a nice bourbon or three.
And so to our Mr. B: I’ll be seeing you, as the song goes, in all the
familiar places that this heart of mine embraces, in every lovely
summer’s day, I find you in the morning sun and when the night is new, I
remember you, always, there over the rainbow, I kid you not, ’cause I’m
Art Kumbalek and I told you so.
From:
https://shepherdexpress.com/advice/art-kumbalek/gris-gris-on-your-doorstep/
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KENOSHA - Raymond Timothy O’Connor, age 69, of Kenosha, WI, passed away
peacefully on October 4, 2012, at his home after battling cancer and
congestive heart failure. He was a proud 
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