The Circular File

Part 1: 1979-1988
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mental Deviant

• Of Lice and Men
• Best of Friends
• The Lost Episode of "Monty Python's Flying Circus"
• How to Be a Fundamentalist (in Four Easy Lessons)
• Abbott and Costello: That's the Point
• The Adventures of Captain Capitalism

Part 2: 1989-1995
The Gifted Invalids' Songbook

• Metaphorical Plumbing
• Our Nation State
• Meat on the Table
• Saturday in Flagstaff at Leroux and Aspen
• Brother John
• The Bharma Dums
• The Gifted Invalids' Songbook
• Giving Blood

Part 3: 1996-1999
The Hiatus

Part 4: 2000-2023
Amateur Theatrics

• The Objectivist Trilogy
• Principles of Nonviolent Politics
• Wasteland To Come, A Mock Hip-Hop Lyric
• Ffred's Manifesto
• A Tribute to Privacy
• An Unusual Dream
• Remembrance of Trips Past
• Trip to Ireland: 2009
• Fear and Loathing in the GOP
• Tahir Geçidi
• Microcosmic Conflict
• Notes from a Hollywood Dream
• Raise the Pavilion
• Another Penal Colony Dream
• Voices from a Troubled Land: A Short Memoir
• Confessions of a Grumpy Old Cock-and-Bull
• KatzenSteeler
• Not a Team Player
• A Modest Proposal
• Hell-Cat Maggie
• Yet Another Literary Folly
• A Dean Martin Celebrity Roast
• Modern Chivalry Revisited
• Gil Blas Restored
• Harry Franco Unearthed
• ffred's nearly-forgotten treasures
• Huddling Place
• The Rev. Mrs. Sniffles Travels to the Holy Land
• It's No Good if You Have to Explain It
• Happy Bloomsday
• Investigating Wherefore
• Dublin Revisited
• The Pinto Letters
• The Moneyman
• 2022: Another Hiatus
• Fables, by François Fénelon

Part 5: 2024-???
Old, Retired, and Grumpy

• Animated Awards
• Three Essays on Lois Waisbrooker
• More Prison Dreams
• To Build a Fire and Other Stories
• Glacier Park: The Whole Bloody Affair
• Hashknife: a Fragmentary Romance of Holbrook, Arizona
• Remembrance of Restaurants Past
• Letters to the Daily Sun
• Super Bowl
• Economic Science

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