ABQ Free Press

04/09/2024

If you think poets are idiots, well, you're right. Here's a poem explaining why from Volume One of my comic Novel, I Got Stinky Feet.

A Poet's Dilemma

I stand on the bank of the fisherman's stream
Feeling depressed and wanting to scream.
For how can I write of the large-mouthed bass
When I'm standing here sticking my thumb up my ass?

How can I bespeak the wonders of thee
When I've nailed my tongue to the trunk of a tree?
Oh what a well-read poet I'd be
If I scribbled on paper instead of my knee.

The day grows dark,
The light does pass.
I'm standing here stuffing
My head up my ass.

You can get I Got Stinky Feet at Amazon and other online retailers.

They would save the wicked from the pious, the rich from the poor, torch the rain forest, confront sleazeballs and die a thousand times over if necessary. Yes, blowhard Dave and his loyal companion Dennis are off one one of the nuttiest adventures of all time: a cross-country motorcycle trip begu...

04/09/2024

A long time ago. Mid-1960s. My buddy Jim dressed as a pack of ci******es for Halloween. He made the costume himself. Can you imagine what would happen today if a kid dressed as a pack of smokes? Oh, the horror. Illo from my latest book, Disturbers Row, which is available on Amazon

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03/07/2022

A new book! Former ABQ Free Press editor Dennis Domrzalski has written a new book! It's called Disturbers Row and it's available as a paperback and eBook on Amazon and other online retailers. It's about growing up Catholic in the city of Chicago in the 1960s and battling crazed and abusive nuns. It's also about the freedom that kids used to have to just be kids. There were no such things as helicopter parents.

Here's the back cover blurb:

Chicago, mid-1960s. Five seventh-graders, the Disturbers of Room 204 at Our Lady of Grace Catholic School, are a menace to the nuns and to society. The Disturbers refuse to conform, they challenge the nuns’ abusive authority and question idiotic rules at every turn. Of course they are routinely beaten silly by the nuns for their attitude of defiance.

Outside of school, the guys and their pals roam their blue-collar neighborhood at will, having fun and getting into trouble. Disturbers Row is a trip back to a time that no longer exists, a time when it was perfectly acceptable for nuns to beat up children, a time when kids were free to be kids and when they used their imaginations to dream, have fun, break rules and learn and grow. No adults needed, wanted, or even interested.

Join the Disturbers as they drive Sister Mary Zita and the other nuns insane. Join them as they play guns and war, hockey, baseball; as they fight, shoplift, smoke, and have fun while crisscrossing their neighborhood and city. You'll have a blast.
https://www.amazon.com/Disturbers-Row-Dennis-F-Domrzalski/dp/0985181354/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ZUJGSFCBEEBG&keywords=disturbers+row&qid=1646665386&s=books&sprefix=%2Cstripbooks%2C138&sr=1-1

Disturbers Row