Tag Archives: Akaky Bashmachkin

We’re moving on up to the big time, as the old TV line had it, or at least becoming available to the readers of a funny blog called "The Passing Parade–Cheap Shots of a Drive By Mind" in New York, as we previously did to those of SimplyJews, another satiric blog in Israel. Most of the links in my blog roll are just ones I like, not folks who actually link here. But Akaky Bashmachkin, of The Passing Parade (the first half of whose title reminds me of a Reader Rabbit computer game Mr. Boy used to play) said in his post New Blog: "If you are interested in what goes on down there deep in the heart of Texas, then I suggest you go over to Dick Stanley’s fine TexasScribbler blog and take a look at what he has to say about life, politics, and other important things down Texas way and throughout this our Great Republic." Thanks Akaky, we’ll try to live up to that. Akaky’s nom de plume is taken from Russian writer Gogol’s short story "The Overcoat."