Welcome to Les Pages aux Folles, a collection of satirical writings and comedic doodles. The most recently written articles can be found in the New section; two or three (or sometimes four or five) will appear each Sunday. Collections of older material (currently numbering 48: 39 books of prose and nine of cartoons) appear in the Archive.
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This Week's New Columns
March 30, 2025
The Daily Me - Doris "Hoppy" Daye
When it was pointed out that white South Africans make up only seven per cent of the population but own half the country's land, Putzer responded, "When I was born, we made up only five per cent of the population and owned 60 per cent of the country's land! Talk about oppression!"
Deconstructing the Administrative State Takes Building [ARNS]
It took me three days to realize that the woman hadn't answered the question.
Headlines Suffer From Headline Fatigue
For You, Maybe
The Whale Was Probably Thinking, What Does A Poor Sea Mammal Have To Do To Get Some Privacy Around Here‽
Fate of Immigrants Up In Air [ARNS]
"Ooh, give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, please," enthused El Salvador President Nayib Bukelelesong. "Six million Vesampucceri dollars will buy a lot of gold bathroom fixtures - absolutely necessary, I am told, if I want your President McDruhitmumpf to come on a state visit. Ooh, and when we put the prisoners you send us to work in the prison's monogrammed hankie production facility, their incarceration will practically pay for itself! Talk about a win-win situation!"
The Swamp Hasn't Been Drained, It Has Just Moved To TwitterX
THE DEVIL: Giant battles little guy? Oddsmakers say don't bet against the giant? Little guy gets off a lucky shot and wins? I lost a lot of shekels that day, lemme tell you! Been used as a metaphor for one-sided battles for centuries? Surely, you must have heard of it (and I'm not calling you Shirley!).
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Les Pages aux Folles extra features
Les Pages aux Folles is morphing into a hybrid fiction site/author's page. How can you tell? It now has a bio page! If you are interested in how I got to this point, go to: Ira Nayman: A Life to Laugh At. Enjoy.
If that isn't authory enough for you, below, you will find links to excerpts from my novels. This may, I don't know, hard to tell, but it's possible spur some readers to want to dip their mind toes (you're welcome for that image) into some of my more narrative fiction. If you go to my page of links to where you can buy my books page, you will find links to all of my novels, most of the anthologies in which I have had shorts stories published, and even the issues of Amazing Stories and Amazing Selects that I worked on as editor. There is much to enjoy here. Have fun.
Welcome to the Multiverse and other absurditiesLes Pages aux Folles Collections
Book Thirty-nine
Book Thirty-eight
The Daily You? No! The Daily Me!
Book Thirty-seven
Headlines Shred Limes
Book Thirty-six
Welcome to the Insurrection (We're Not Sorry About the Inconvenience)
Book Thirty-five
You and What Universe?/That's When Everything Went Cow-shaped
Book Thirty-four
Reality's Stenographers
Book Thirty-three
Angels of Our Bitter Nature
Book Thirty-two
E Deplorables Unum
Book Thirty-one
The Tale That Dogs the Wag
Book Thirty
ARNS and the Man
Book Twenty-nine
Nonsense Nouvelles
Book Twenty-eight
Futures in Mirror are Closer Than They Appear
Book Twenty-seven
A Poke in the Eye of Reality and Three "Knyucks"
Blackout Funnies:
How Much More Blackout Could It Be? None. None More Blackout
Book Twenty-six
The Daily Me: We Didn't Make It...For You!
Book Twenty-five
What the Hell Were You Thinking? Good Advice for People Who Make Bad Decisions
Book Twenty-four
The Honourable Sir Nathan Ordinal Norman Sequitur Fights the Good Fight Against the Minions of Ignorance
Delicate Negotiations: Round Five:
Round Five: Enter The Lawyers!
Book Twenty-three
The Daily Me: How Bleak the World Must Have Been Without Instant Communications!
Book Twenty-two
The Alternate Reality News Service's Guide to Love, Sex and Robots
Delicate Negotiations: Round Four:
It's Only Words, But Words Are All I Have, To Make the Blackout Go Away
Book Twenty-one
The Street Finds its own Uses for Mutant Technologies
Book Twenty
An Article Here, An Article There and Pretty Soon You're Talking About Real Text
Book Nineteen
The Daily Me: More Reality Than You Can Shake a Penguin Engine At!
Delicate Negotiations: Round Three:
Grannies and Shemales (Just Don't Mention the Goat Head)
Book Eighteen
Luna for the Lunies!
Book Seventeen
The Pundit Without Honour and Other Reasons Not to Get Out of Bed in the Morning
Book Sixteen
The Daily Me - Now in Convenient Pill Form!
Delicate Negotiations: Round Two:
A Female Character in a Male Cartoonist's World
Book Fifteen
What Were Once Miracles are Now Children's Toys
Book Fourteen
Everybody's Got An Opinion (Unfortunately)
Book Thirteen
The Personal is Journalistic
Delicate Negotiations: Round One:
The Quiet Melancholy
My Toronto: Book Two
God's Menstruation
Book Twelve
That's What They Want You To Think...Or, Is It?
Book Eleven
Your Daily Dose of Crustacean Serendipity
Book Ten
Alternate Reality Ain't What It Used To Be
My Toronto: Book One
A Fate Too Absurd To Bear
Book Nine
No Public Figure Too Big, No Personal Foible Too Small
Book Eight
It's Always About You, Isn't It?
Book Seven
Life, Death and Other Ways of Passing the Time
Book Six
News You Can Abuse
Book Five
New Millenium, Same Old Story
Book Four
Satire for the Hard of Thinking
Book Three
Orchestrated Chaos
Book Two
Politics: A Musical Comedy
Book One
Zen and the Art of International Politics
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