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Dear Reader: this crazytown publication might be just what you need.

If you're drowning in precious or carefully programmed content, and you just want a laugh or wonder what the heck, you'll love Lone Prairie.
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A buying culture on a no-return trajectory.
I did not know you could return food.
 • Julie R. Neidlinger
The United States Postal Service has a few problems just in time for Christmas.
As it turns out, sending a Christmas present to Germany is more difficult than crossing the Maginot Line.
 • Julie R. Neidlinger
Chocolate Is King: A terrible Thanksgiving tale.
I’m not new to inappropriate Thanksgiving tales, but a decade ago, after significant professional degradation during this time of giving thanks, I…
 • Julie R. Neidlinger
The rise and fall of civilization is because of shopping carts.
While watching my overweight cat swat his partially empty food bowl around and while looking at me accusingly, I was reminded that there are several…
 • Julie R. Neidlinger
A reader's manifesto, revisited and lightly acidic.
Even a nation brainwashed to equate artsiness with art knows when its eyelids are drooping.
 • Julie R. Neidlinger
A writing class via Zoom, and my apology session with God afterwards.
I don’t know how the kids did it, during the pandemic.
 • Julie R. Neidlinger
In the grand history of horrible logo remakes, Cracker Barrel is nowhere near as Legendary as what Doug Burgum did to the state of North…
Fonts matter.
 • Julie R. Neidlinger
The splendid self-driving camper.
When a hitch is optional but swear words are not.
 • Julie R. Neidlinger
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