As this will be my last post until the new year, I wish all those who enjoy the blog a wonderful holiday and, if those in power don't wipe out the planet in the meantime, a new year full of mirth and merriment. So, my last blog of the year is the book 'THE ILLEGAL' …
Author: richardsleftbank
Retired, when in a late life crisis, began to write - started a blog and now, three novels later, the rest still isn't history.
THE TRILLION DOLLAR SCAM
Last year, the Board of Testicle (the really juiced car company) awarded their CEO, HeLong Muskrat, a pay package of forty billion dollars. This was at a time when Muskrat’s favorite politicians, the Rumpettes in ‘Murica’s Congress, were fighting tooth and nail against sending fifty billion dollars of ‘Murican made weapons to U-Crane to help …
BACK AT THE RANCH IN OLD KANADOODLE
With so much hilarity going on with our good neighbors to the south, it’s easy to forget that there’s some pretty good comedy right here in Kanadoodle. Our current Prime Ribber, Chili Con Carnie, is travelling the world right now drumming up new business to replace losses in ice cube demand due to The Rump’s …
‘MURICA THE MIGHTY
A few weeks back you may remember His Highness Ronald Rump, Grand High Imperial Twitterbug (GHIT), PREZ for life and World’s Greatest Comedian, called together every General in the ‘Murican military. Then he had his Secretary of Wobbly, Peep Hogswath, famous for his killer attacks as a Foxxy News announcer, tell the generals that they …
MISS AUSTEN MINI-SERIES
MISS AUSTEN - BBC, PBS Masterpiece 2025 - Four episode mini-series based on the book by Gill Hornby. It is 1830, thirteen years after Jane Austen’s death. Despite letters asking her not to come, Jane’s spinster sister Cassandra is racing to the deathbed of the Reverend Fowle. Why? Historically, Cassandra Austen is notable for three …
DAHL’S THE TWITS – THE MOVIE
THE TWITS - Netflix, 2025 - The Twits was the first Roald Dahl book I ever encountered. I was a beginning elementary teacher at the time and found it at a bookstore when it was first published. I loved it and found that my grade five students were enchanted by Dahl’s wacky twisted humor. One …
FASCISM IN KANADOODLE?
Every once in a while, one of Kanadoodle’s home grown politicos attempts a comedy skit that might put them in the big leagues. It’s a tough thing to do when they’re up against the world class hilarity of ‘Murica’s Ronald Rump, or Vlad (the Impaler) Poutine of Rooskie. Let’s face it, Kanadoodle may have lots …
THE GREAT ESCAPER
THE GREAT ESCAPER Bernie Jordan (played by Michael Caine), a 90 year old WWII veteran, missed the deadline to sign up for the official bus to attend the services to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day in France. Stuck in a care facility in Brighton, he’s torn between his desire to go and his need …
AND THE COMEDY JUST KEEPS COMING
The Grand High Imperial Twitterbug (GHIT), His Highness, Prez for Life and World’s Greatest Comedian: the one, THE ONLY, Ronald Rump, is ON FIRE right now with some of the GREATEST COMEDY ROUTINES ever achieved! Portland is a WAR ZONE! Wow, that had us rolling in the aisle, but sending troops to stamp out …
THE BLACKTONGUE THIEF BY CHRISTOPHER BUEHLMAN
The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman, Tor Publishing 2021 - Introducing Kinch Na Shannack, a lowly member of the Takers Guild, born in that part of Buehlman’s fictional world where the inhabitants are distinguished by, and looked down on for, their black tongues. The Takers Guild is a collective of criminals that apprentice and supply …
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