Tommy Karr

Category: Humor

  • Still Loving Lucy 60 Years Later

    It is hard to imagine that there was TV sixty years ago today, let alone that I Love Lucy, the most beloved sitcom of all time (my opinion but I have little doubt it isn’t true), premiered that long ago.  Yes, for those who were there sixty years may not feel so long ago, but when…

  • Seriously, go read this damned book

    John Dies at the End by David Wong My rating: 4 of 5 stars Having recently seen the trailer for the upcoming film I was intrigued to read the original novel and see what all the fuss was about. What I wasn’t prepared for was the onslaught of hilarity and gross. Gross what? Just gross.…

  • Ten Things the Internet Could Have Helped Me Avoid in the 1980s

    1.  I would not have sung the wrong lyrics to “Oh, Sherrie” like an idiot. 2.  I would not have given up on that pen-pal program to a kid in France… to whom I never wrote a second letter because I lost his physical mailing address.  Sorry French kid. 3.  I would not have had…

  • Tuba-Ruba (or How I Got Cake)

    Tuba-Ruba may have been one of my favorite games… for about four hours. And then I transformed it into a room-to-room communication device. See, Tuba-Ruba came out in 1987, just as I turned 12 and I was at that age where a) I didn’t particularly want to be tangled up with a girl and b)…

  • The Knee Bones Connected to the…

    Today was my first full physical therapy session. For those that don’t know, I somehow destroyed my knee and have been hobbling around for nearly two months. My doctor thought I might have a meniscus tear but after an MRI he ruled that out. So, he prescribed physical therapy for two months hoping that it…

  • The Captains (Part 2)

    My friend Mike emailed me about a week ago with information about a free screening for William Shatner’s documentary The Captains.  He is upstate stage managing Cooking With The Calamari Sisters: Mangia Italiana with our friends Steve and Jay so he couldn’t go.  But when I mentioned it to Quincy she froke out.  “WHAT TIME ARE…

  • …and the Case of the Missing Rockets

    In the eighth grade, after busily trading Garbage Pail Kids card and drawing Archie-inspired cartoons of my best friends, I joined our 4-H club and excitedly planned out how I would raise my pig and what tricks I would teach it. However, being a small school in Goose Creek, primarily occupied by Navy brats, and…

  • Feeling Fine(d) at the Library… Six Years Later

    Last month I got an email alert from my credit monitoring agency and discovered that I had a delinquent bill of $12.00 due to some agency in Alabama.  WHAT?! I haven’t lived in Alabama for several years so I couldn’t imagine to whom I owed $12.00.  So I wrote to the agency who posted the…

  • Lost in Translation at the Dunkin’ Donuts

    Today, after a quick run at the gym during my lunch hour, I stopped in Dunkin’ Donuts for a large iced tea (it was blazing hot on the streets of NYC and it was a chilled beverage or heat stroke). The line was long but it usually moves quickly and when one of the 14…

  • The Ceiling Fan Calamity: Day 3 – Final Judgement

    I asked my roommate to check the ceiling for me.  I had a feeling that what I discovered under the plaster was not wooden beams or metal supports but concrete.  “Hmm, yeah,” he said, standing on my bed and scratching at the chalky grey underbelly of the ceiling.  “That’s concrete.” CONCRETE!  Yes, there are anchors…