Welcome to The Big Jewel, where funny happens once a week but the memories of funny last forever...because yes, they're that ugly and traumatic! This week, your literary Santa Claus Kurt Luchs introduces you to a fictional creator of fictional characters named Richard Bodkin: A Bare Bodkin, Or: One Lunch, Naked, To Go by Kurt Luchs Once in a millennium, it is an editor's sacred privilege to play midwife to a writer of earthshaking significance and eye-rolling originality. Unfortunately, that hasn't happened to us yet, but until it does we are honored to introduce our readers to Richard Bodkin, or "the San Francisco Earthquake," as he is known to intimates. Mr. Bodkin, our readers; readers, Mr. Bodkin... For the full article please visit http://www.thebigjewel.com/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this email list please email list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with your request.