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For your amusement today, our American ambassador, the incorrigible Boston-based writer Michael C. Keith, indulges in a wee spot of double entendre in A Town Without a Box Store.
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It’s Wednesday again, so it’s McSerial day on McStorytellers and time for the next instalment of Jack MacRoary’s Guide to the General Election.
This week, politics takes over young Jack’s classroom, and he has to wade through a surfeit of political party manifestos to find out what lies behind the soundbites. Read his refreshingly perceptive conclusions in Episode Six. And if you want to catch up with the earlier episodes of Jack’s Guide, use your cursor to hover over Oor McSerials in the left-hand sidebar and then just follow the trail. More humour from McStorytellers today, this time from the pen of Saltcoats-born caricaturist and sketch writer Brian Morrison. In It’s A Kinda Magic, wee Archie has a big job for David Copperfield... but is the main man up to it?
Enjoy! Our modern-day Ayrshire Bard, poet, novelist and scribbler extraordinaire Angus Shoor Caan, begins the McStorytellers week with a wee bit of West Coast banter, in which Limpy an’ Shug enter into a guessing game. But they should have just gone for a pint instead…
Enjoy! Here for your Saturday enjoyment is another slice of humour from Saltcoats-born caricaturist, sketch writer and all-round funny man, Brian Morrison. Spend a day at Glasgow’s Burrell Collection, marvel at the priceless works of art and watch the antics of The Professionals who guard over them.
Enjoy! It’s McSerial day on McStorytellers and time for Episode Five of Jack MacRoary’s Guide to the General Election. This week, our budding political pundit is so bored with the same old, same old General Election arguments that he makes his own political broadcast. A call to eat porridge is only the start of it! Read it all and banish those GE blues.
And if you want to catch up with the earlier episodes of Jack’s Guide, use your cursor to hover over Oor McSerials in the left-hand sidebar and then just follow the trail. Continuing this week’s humorous theme, here’s a daft wee tale from the pen of Saltcoats-born caricaturist and writer Brian Morrison. In Tattie Masher, our hero may be a vagrant, but he knows his onions about cooking potatoes – when he can be bothered, that is.
Have a laugh! Our American ambassador, the prolific Boston-based writer Michael C. Keith, kicks off a busy McStorytellers week with a big dollop of humour. Questionnaire Appearing at the End of a Book is the sort of survey we might wish to take part in after a disappointing read. Though we might also regret it if that questionnaire appeared at the end of our own books! There again, we might already harbour some misgivings about our books of the type that are expressed in Michael’s accompanying poem, which he calls Aha Moment: My book doesn’t smell like one,
and I worry it’s because it contains nothing worthy of its binding. Yet, it does have a glossy look to it, like the volumes on my shelves waiting to be opened. Writers need to be readers, declare the author profiles in magazines found in doctors’ offices. Read the stories in The New Yorker, advises my friend, who then adds, Let them be your role models. I try really hard to do just that, but many of the stories leave me empty, and then I think, maybe that’s it. That other Ayrshire Bard, the prolific author, poet and raconteur Angus Shoor Caan, makes a welcome return to McStorytellers today with a knockout tale of a cute new addition to the Railway Children.
Sit back, let the train take the strain and enjoy Fairy Tale Birth At Hazel Grove. Saltcoats-born caricaturist and writer Brian Morrison returns to McStorytellers today with another delightful children’s story featuring the famous artist, Carlos De Vase. This time Carlos Goes Way Down Yonder to Blue Orleans, where he investigates a glass-shattering mystery.
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McBlog AuthorBrendan Gisby is McStoryteller-in-Residence. He's the author of four novels, three biographies and several short story collections. The McStorytellers
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