Suprise Me

Our Special Guests My loyal readers may remember that I spent happy childhood summers at my grandmother’s small hotel in the Catskills.  (See My Heart Remembers My Grandmother’s Hotel,  My Game Mother,  Playing with Fire,  Hotel Kittens, The Cat and the Forshpeiz,  and The Troubadour) Here’s another hotel memory,  though this one is bittersweet. Every summer for many years… Read More

Summertime ambrosia. Read More

“Sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted sisters.” This 1954 Irving Berlin song was sung by Rosemary Clooney in the movie White Christmas, and my sisters and I learned to sing it at an early age. And we are devoted, it’s not just a song lyric. I feel incredibly lucky to have my two sisters. As I… Read More

The point is, half our testing is useless, and even Cassandra doesn't have any idea which half. Read More

"Do as you might have" . . . But the aunt in question rendered this simply as doozha mighta. Read More

I wouldn’t have taken it if I hadn’t been sure of its provenance. Read More

I was thrilled when some relative gave me a crystal radio for my birthday. Read More

The violence exacerbated by Mayor Daley’s draconian crackdown on protestors at the 1968 Democratic convention helped to elect Nixon, a far worse alternative than Humphrey. Read More

I hadn't heard of this syndrome before it happened to me. At first I was surprised, but then later understood why it happened to me. Read More

Weekly Satirical News: Saturday 4/12/2025 By Kevin J. W. Driscoll © 2025 Preface: In a world where the truly bizarre often gets lost in the daily deluge of the merely strange, the Driscoll Dispatch remains your steadfast compass pointing towards the delightfully unhinged. This week, we explore the burgeoning field of competitive apology, the unexpected… Read More