Author: Jo

Fido TV

Besides the usual annual celebrations lately endured, The Trying Times wishes to add a new one: Year 61 A.T.V, or sixty six years into the Age of TeleVision. [...]

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Statue of Liberty Suite

Sounding on our ongoing theme of travesty, one of the most odious of the emerging travesties is that of liberty itself in the modern age. On that score, The [...]

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The Times, They Are A-Tryin’

Hunkered down on sentinel watch in our bunker, we take regular liberties with Trying Times subheadings sneaked from Tom Paine’s Common Sense— These are the [...]

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The Great Commotion Opera

The Great Commotion Opera & Entreaters Society begged me to sit and play. So I sat, and I played to the saga of a plastic collapsible circus, [...]

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