Author Archives: Barry O'Keefe

Diana improvised this little potholder.

A comparison of the contents of Ilaria and Diana’s “stomachs.”

When Sarah Wolfe was visiting us here she was assigned the job of tearing the paper for a game of Telephone pictionary. She tore it short ways, and that’s how Panoramic TPP was invented.

A poem by C, recorded by B: I bend U bend We all bend for U bend.

Startin it up Good, it’s not dead Slide that defog to the red Purp Jug’s rollin like Santa’s sled pickin up Gifts for Christmas Barry’s out in Rabbadabton Rappin it up getting things done Tom’s North West In Teaberburg Workin’ on seconds Done with his third’s Conor’s still in Serphimgrad not quite sure about MomContinue reading “Bad Holiday Poem”

I picked an old spiral notebook that looked blank from the cabinet under where “the gerbil used to be” to take with me to Russia last summer. Somewhere midway through the trip I found a few doodles by Tom in a blue ballpoint pen on one of the last pages. Here they are. In caseContinue reading “TOM”

Wrote this in Russia during comics and tea. In picture see a pitiful reenactment with me and Lee. (It’s supposed to be funny yall) Today I bought a piece of peanut halva at the market. We had it with dinner. Tonight conor is upstairs already for some reason, and I went into the fridge andContinue reading “Sorrowful Halva”

To play Telephone Pictionary:Each player needs a long piece of paper. Sit in a circle. Start by writing a sentence at the top, then pass to one side. Illustrate the sentence you received, and then fold the paper so only your illustration is visible, then pass again. Write a sentence about the illustration you received,Continue reading “Birthday Telephone Pictionary”

Three dragons, three goblins and three ghosts – by Tom, Barry, and Laura (in that order). Click to make it big. . . .