Ed O’Neil Al Bundy, bitter, reluctant family man embodying the frustrated working-class shoe salesman. You know how I greet the day? With pain—deep, throbbing, soul-sucking pain. Some folks jump outta bed like it’s Christmas morning. Me? I roll out like a sack of wet laundry. The house is chaos before sunrise—someone’s whining for cash, someone’s hogging the mirror, and someone’s…
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Grimm Prospects – Episode I Al Bundy’s advice for getting by in life one fairy tale at a time
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep A simple rhyme in which a black sheep answers a child’s request for wool, giving it to the master, the dame, and a small boy. Baa, baa, black sheep. Yeah, I know the guy. Poor sap gets asked if he’s got any wool, and like every beaten-down husband in America, he coughs it all up. One…
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Grimm Prospects – Episode II
London Bridge Is Falling Down A repetitive rhyme about the collapse of London Bridge and many humorous attempts to repair it with different materials. London Bridge is falling down. And you know what? Of course it is. Everything falls down. Buildings, paychecks, my pants the second I bend over in the shoe store. Nothing lasts. You put your heart, your…
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Laugh and the Whole World Laughs at You How life finds endless ways to wedge us into embarrassing situations
Life’s full of events. Some small and some big. When you’re a kid, you get to enjoy things like pushing the elevator button before anyone else, dropping your ice cream cone five seconds after buying it, and farting during a quiet test only to become a playground legend. Later, as an adult, you have to endure “grown-up” events like a…
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You Could Have Voted for Anyone But instead, you elected HIM
It begins innocently enough. A few political ads during the nightly news, a candidate shaking hands at your local diner, or maybe a robocall or two promising lower gas prices and more Dunkin’ Donut shops. Before long, the entire country is knee-deep in a political swamp, where facts are foggy, tensions are high, and the stress level is somewhere between…
