Welcome to The Big Jewel, where (along with Merriam-Webster) we like to define "memoir" as "a narrative composed from personal experience, usually used in plural." As you'll see, Dan Shea defines it somewhat differently. For him, a memoir is the incoherent, paranoid and yet highly entertaining ramblings of a disturbed psyche: Memories Of Ma, The Old Neighborhood, Little Billy Woodnik, Growing Up Too Fast, And The CIA Spying On Me By Dan Shea After school, during the milder months, all us kids would play stickball in the street. Each block had its own unofficial team, and we were the best. Heck, we were so good that the other kids sometimes accused us of cheating. We'd just shrug it off, win another game, then go poison their dogs. I say let our record speak for itself, you know?... For the full article please visit http://www.thebigjewel.com To unsubscribe from The Big Jewel's Hilarious Weekly Email please send an email with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line to neilpasricha@xxxxxxxxx