Satire is on the menu.
Our fate is still your fate,
Folks, this is going to be the shortest “Obsession” post in history. I was perusing Fark the other day and saw this comment on a thread about a Herman Cain award-winner entitled “Young and ...
Hail & Farewell.
https://first-draft.com/2020/12/30/time-to-ring-some-changes/
Got this in the mail the other day: (Yes, it’s a screenshot of the message on my phone, I switched computers recently and can’t figure out how to edit files yet, gimme a break, there’s a pa...
I gave you a week and you did it in almost a day: Every year they do a MASSIVE toy drive for the little kids so they can have some holiday presents and they’re well-supplied, but need $500 f...
https://first-draft.com/2019/12/08/not-everything-sucks-you-did-it/
Please donate to First Draft.
https://first-draft.com/2019/09/19/ten-years-of-stuff-nonsense/
Let’s just turn today over to JTO, from my Sunday post, reminding me to get off my ass, shall we? The hour is running late, that is true, but it is also just as true that it is still early. I...
https://first-draft.com/2019/06/18/our-commenters-are-awesome/
Every time I ask you guys I think this time it’s not gonna make a dent and oh boy did you ever make a dent: #Uglydogs OMG OMG 4 trips to the post office dragging a sled behind to pick up all ou...
https://first-draft.com/2019/03/31/so-we-mailed-some-legos-to-alaska-guys/
You ever get shown up thoroughly by someone twice your age? Tom Butler and his wife June did that to me in 2007 in NOLA. Longtime readers may remember we assembled a bunch of Internet people who�...
https://first-draft.com/2019/03/19/in-loving-and-awed-memory-of-tom-butler-first-draft-krewe/
It’s that time of year again: Listomania is in the air. One of my favorite bloggers, Batocchio is carrying on a tradition started by the late Jon Swift/Al Weisel: a roundup of the best posts of...
Thanks to your generosity, First Drafters, you paid for Christmas gifts for 85 KIDS. The money you raised for the St. Hyacinth Food Pantry bought gift cards, toys, games, mittens and other necess...
Fight the power.
She always finds a way to turn lemons into a reason to help other people, as witnessed by the food drive. I figured she deserved something for herself, so I headed to the local pet store and shot...
https://first-draft.com/2016/11/18/friday-ferretblogging-this-ones-for-a/
THANK YOU ALL! This is a message from the St. Hyacinth Pantry’s director to everyone who donated: I want to thank you and all of your generous friends for their overwhelming support. With the m...
https://first-draft.com/2016/11/13/lets-get-to-work-food-pantry-fund/
Adrastos on the post-election landscape.
https://first-draft.com/2016/11/11/confessions-of-a-keyboard-maquis/
First Draft has a book finally! If you didn’t contribute to the Kickstarter, you missed all the updates about the shipping for the first edition, which is almost done (will you last group of la...
https://first-draft.com/2016/04/03/in-case-you-missed-the-7000-posts-last-fall/
I always know where it is, unlike almost every other object I own. I rarely, if ever, however, go looking for it. And yet occasionally, you find yourself doing something that you know will evoke ...
https://first-draft.com/2016/02/27/living-life-chip-by-chip/
Josh Marshall on the Insult Comedian's big mouth.
https://first-draft.com/2015/12/30/headline-of-the-day-josh-marshall-edition-2/
Adrastos on the latest developments in the Gret Stet Goober race, including Jason Berry's reaction to the latest spy vs. spy controversy.
https://first-draft.com/2015/11/11/louisiana-politics-of-gumshoes-gobshites-and-goobers/
Della Street is not running for President.
Oscar Meets #SaintsCat.
https://first-draft.com/2015/10/16/friday-catblogging-oscar-stands-up-for-the-anthology/
Adrastos gets down and pulpy with 4 Hammett book covers. He also enlists Sam Spade, Joel Cairo, and Kasper Gutman in the First Draft fundraising campaign
https://first-draft.com/2015/10/15/pulp-fiction-thursday-dashiell-hammett/
UPDATE: You all have been incredible! Our Kickstarter for the First Draft Anthology is 90 percent funded, and we have 8 more days to get this thing done. Just ten more backers, ten more copies, a...
https://first-draft.com/2015/09/27/first-draft-fundraiser-kickstart-our-anthology/
We survived the influx of teevee crews, MSM reporters, carpetbloggers, disaster tourists and former Presidents. I stuck to my guns and avoided the hype as much as possible. I did, however, make ...
I would sing to you, but I think it might be against the law: A.
The appeal of the entire homeschooling phenomenon has always eluded me. I think that kids need to be socialized as much as they need to be educated. It’s become a right wing evangelical thing o...
The Louisiana lege is in session, desperately trying to divert attention from the destruction it and Gov PBJ hath wrought in the last 7 years. (Contemplating the wreckage makes me feel all Old ...
https://first-draft.com/2015/04/30/headline-of-the-day-josh-marshall-edition/
I’m back for another bite at the Saturday apple, hope y’all have a Gala time. This week I have a compendium of reading suggestions and the odd musical selection. Speaking of odd, that brings ...
https://first-draft.com/2015/04/18/odds-sods-saturday-night-fish-fry/
Yeah, I know, epiphany aka 12th Night was yesterday. I’m an atheist, so what do I know from magi? Not a damn thing. It’s like asking Rickles about Easter. I’ve also had a pesky cold, which...
https://first-draft.com/2015/01/07/odds-sods-epiphany-edition/