Takin’ What They’re Givin’

    A number of years ago, in response to no particular demand, I developed a musical lecture on the “I Hate My Job” song, a style of song as basic to the American experience as the hymn.  Had I been able to clear all the rights….     But there is a broad literature of peopleContinue reading “Takin’ What They’re Givin’”

ARCHAEOLOGY OF HUMOR

            I have to admit that sometimes I don’t understand every facet of every joke thrown at me by the humorists of the past.  I think we can all enjoy the basic humor of this card, for example.  Anyone who played on seesaws (teeter-totters, in my neighborhood) knows that joy of breaking the rules andContinue reading “ARCHAEOLOGY OF HUMOR”