Talking Paragraphs Podcast No. 114: Shower spiders are scary and Chik-fil-A’s new cauliflower sandwitch

A grump middle school teacher and his friend, “the mouthpiece for Big Ag,” discuss the important issue of the day, including:

Baseball’s labor disputes, bad decisions leave fans with no one to root for — not even the game they love

The Super Bowl is set: a matchup of two teams in which have no rooting interest. These teams bore me so much that I can’t think of a reason to root against either of them. Maybe I could root against the Los Angeles Rams, who poked St. Louis in the eye and split town, butContinue reading “Baseball’s labor disputes, bad decisions leave fans with no one to root for — not even the game they love”

Stuff my dad texts

From the desk of friendly neighborhood paragraph stacker Daniel P. Finney of Des Moines, Iowa. Super Bowl celebration in my house as a boy usually involved my dad and me stretched out on the basement furniture with bowls of popcorn on our bellies and a fizzy Pepsi on ice on coasters atop the end table.Continue reading “Stuff my dad texts”