7:00 a.m. – Awakened to alarm clock.
Author: Miles Gloriosus
Milestones: Maximum Housing Code
After a quietly advertised public hearing (in the men’s room of The Silo, behind the flush tank), The Shantini Housing Group, represented by Michelangelo Blacksatterini, Esq., introduced the following Ordinance which was seconded by Councilperson _______________________ as read: AN ORDINANCE FOR THE CREATION OF A MAXIMUM HOUSING CODE
Milestones: The Shakedown
(Sammy “The Nickel” Sunoco, Heathcliffe “Tinroof” Shantini, and Michelangelo “Mickey the Shyster” Blacksatterino quietly enter an innocuous Henderson business during regular hours. Blacksatterino carries a suspicious-looking briefcase at his side.)
Milestones: Run, come see Henderson
From the informational tourist pamphlet entitled: “Run, Come See Henderson – Tours by the Ramshaft Group” Henderson, Vance County, North Carolina offers an opportunity for the tourist of discerning taste to observe a city return to a state of natural, pre-Columbian beauty.
Milestones: The makings of a chief
Dateline Metropolis, Gotham City, New York, Atlantis, Valhalla, and Las Vegas: Superheroes from across America have been reporting a string of gruesome crimes over the last several days.
Milestones: Taxpayer, be not proud
From a public safety standpoint, not to mention concern for the well-being of our firefighters and police officers, the situation at Beacon Light is intolerable.
Milestones: Investigate this!
If the council has nothing to hide, then why shouldn’t it avoid an investigation? I’ll give you a reason.
Milestones: Please, sir, may I have some more?
There is a quaint Southern tradition, now defunct, in which a servant is paid nothing for his/her work and severely and publicly castigated if he/she does not do a good job.
Milestones: Top 10 reasons to vote for Miles
Here are the top ten reasons to vote for me in tomorrow’s election for sheriff:
Milestones: Planet of the Bureaucrats, Part IV
Ok, after two months I’ve finally come to admit it to myself: I am never going to finish this. So much for my experiment in episodic parody. So let me just give you the punch line and anyone who likes can fill in the details.
Planet of the Bureaucrats, Part III
In our last episode: Henderson Mayor Clem Seifert lay recovering in a cage from a neck wound that was the result of being caught in a politician hunt by city employees.
Planet of the Bureaucrats, Part II
Our story so far: Henderson Mayor Clem Seifert and his intrepid band of space travellers, former City Council members Harriette Butler, John Wester, and Mike Rainey crash-land on a strange planet 2,000 years after their space ship, the U.S.S. Search Committee, left Henderson. Butler died in cold sleep.
Milestones: Planet of the Bureaucrats, Part I
Scene 1 (Henderson Mayor Clem Seifert is seated in the cockpit of a spaceship. His feet are propped up on the dashboard as he speaks into the computer, making his last log entry before going into suspended animation.)
Milestones: The night before swearing-in
‘Twas the night before swearing-in And all through City Hall, Every worker was waiting For the big ax to fall.