My Neck of the Woods

A humor column by Daryl Popkes for The Cook County Star
and The Cook County News-Herald



09/29/03 - Gunflint Guy Hears From the ACLU - It's Not Pretty

09/15/03 - This Country Is Going To The Dogs

09/01/03 - Klaatu Barada Nikto (Don't Panic)

08/18/03 - Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirates Life For Me!

08/04/03 - Of Men and Meat - Grillin', Chillin' and Willin'

07/21/03 - 'Scuse Me, While I Kiss This Guy

07/07/03 - Earth First! Mars Next! Pave the Solar System!

06/23/03 - Sierra Club Tells Tall Tales

06/09/03 - I just want to say one word to you - just one word: "Plastics"

05/26/03 - I Think There's Something Wrong With Me

05/12/03 - You are too far from reality!

04/28/03 - Flying The Friendly Skies

03/31/03 - We're saddened, saddened that this columnist failed so miserably at humor that we're now forced to war.

03/17/03 - Future History -- Now It Can Be Told

03/03/03 - A Prophet Without Honor In His Own Land

02/17/03 - You May Say I'm a Dreamer

02/03/03 - Jose, Can You See?

01/20/03 - La Gunflint Guy, He Has Some Gaul

01/06/03 - A Funny Time For a Nursery Rhyme

12/23/02 - They Love Us! They Really, Really Love Us!

12/09/02 - Stop Me If You Heard This One Before

11/25/02 - Counting My Many Thanksgiving Blessings

11/11/02 - It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To

10/28/02 - Ask Mr. Gunflint Guy

10/14/02 - Top Ten Reasons to Vote "NO" on the School Referendum

09/30/02 - If Might Can Make Right and the Right Might Be Right, What's Left For the Left?

09/16/02 - Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

09/09/02 - Hate Mail!

09/02/02 - As Battles Go, This One's a Mother!

08/19/02 - Second Thoughts About Notable People

08/05/02 - Can I Super-Size That For You, Mr. Brando?

07/22/02 - Hey Mickey, You're So Fine, Though Asinine, I Loved Your Whine...

07/08/02 - Ask Mr. Gunflint Guy

06/24/02 - Gone But Not Forgotten

06/10/02 - Innocent Intrigue or Fatal Attraction?

05/27/02 - Things My Wife Does That Drive Me Crazy

05/13/02 - Cache as Cache Can

04/29/02 - I'm the Education Columnist - I Do It for the Kids

04/15/02 - Silence Dogood, Please Come Home

04/01/02 - This Isn't Funny

03/18/02 - Cook County Redneck Quiz

03/04/02 - Canadians Finally Get All Their Pucks in a Row

02/25/02 - Hate Mail!

02/18/02 - Bridging the Olympics, from Rad to Relic

02/11/02 - Hate Mail!

02/04/02 - PETA, PETA, Tofu Eater, Can't I Even Swat a Skeeter?

01/21/02 - If I Had a Goat, These Things Would Get it

01/07/02 - Star Light, Star Bright, Tell Me Why My Life's a Fright

12/24/01 - O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum, Da da da da da, You da Baum!

12/10/01 - I Think Yule Agree, It Could Be Verse!

11/26/01 - Norway: Utopia or Hell on Earth?

11/12/01 - Earning a Quick Buck is Deer to my Heart

10/29/01 - Ask Mr. Gunflint Guy

10/15/01 - Desert Storm II - This Time It's Personal!

10/01/01 - Can't We All Just Get Along?

09/17/01 - I Know You Are But What Am I?

09/03/01 - She's Got a Ticket to Ride but the Train is Late

08/20/01 - R U 2 Kool 4 Skool? - a simple quiz

08/06/01 - A Sap's Fables

07/23/01 - Ask Mr. Gunflint Guy

07/09/01 - Sierra Club Falls Down the Stupid Tree and Hits Every Branch

06/25/01 - Have a Heapin' Helpin' of our Hospitality

06/18/01 - Hate Mail!

06/11/01 - The Last Portage

05/28/01 - Mars, Venus or the Planet of the Apes?

05/14/01 - A Wary Home Companion

04/30/01 - Yet Another Lazy Excuse of a Column

04/16/01 - Canada (Will it ever become a real country?)

04/09/01 - Hate Mail!

04/02/01 - How Now Mad Cow?

03/19/01 - Isn't IT About Time?

03/05/01 - The Snow Must Go On

02/19/01 - Chicken Little was Right!

02/06/01 - In Matters of the Heart, You Dare Not Fumble!

01/22/01 - The Idiot's Guide to Ice Fishing

01/08/01 - It's Written in the Stars

12/25/00 - Who needs a Grinch when you have a Grouch?

12/11/00 - The Board is Overboard

11/27/00 - Who Let the Lawyers Out?

11/13/00 - A Tale of Three Speeches

10/30/00 - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

10/16/00 - Of Mice and Men and Presidential Hopefuls

10/02/00 - She Wants Me to Wear Silver...

09/18/00 - Thinking Positive about Going Negative

09/04/00 - A Love of Labor

08/21/00 - Going, Going, Gone!

08/07/00 - Another Dam Column

07/24/00 - I Scream for Good Humor, Man

07/10/00 - Eat, Drink and Be Merry for Tomorrow We Fry

06/26/00 - Beaver Fever

06/12/00 - The Write Stuff

05/29/00 - The Gall of the Wild

05/15/00 - Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to be Fishermen

05/01/00 - Song Translation Quiz

04/17/00 - 'Tis Better to be a Turnip

04/03/00 - Clinton Wins on Budget; But More Lies Ahead

03/20/00 - Still Mad as a March Hare

03/06/00 - Goldfinger's Revenge

02/21/00 - You say it's your birthday?

02/07/00 - A Soap Box with a View

01/24/00 - Ice Fishing, a Short History

01/10/00 - Moose Menace!

12/27/99 - Y2Kwit

12/20/99 - Every Good and Perfect Gift

12/06/99 - Life, the Universe and Everything!

11/22/99 - Another Turkey

11/08/99 - Deer Me!

10/25/99 - Talkin' Trash

10/11/99 - Lost and Found

09/27/99 - Reader Response Review

09/13/99 - Some Like It Hot

08/16/99 - Picking and Grinning

08/02/99 - Tree-Hugger Quiz

07/17/99 - A 4th to Remember

07/05/99 - A Dog with Common Scents

06/21/99 - An Ode to the Old Commode

06/07/99 - Flaming the Flies

05/24/99 - God Save the Queen

05/10/99 - Waiting With Baited Breath

04/26/99 - Mud and Flood, This Week's a Dud

04/12/99 - A Taxing Situation

03/29/99 - Viva, Cook County!

03/15/99 - Take Off, You Hosers!

03/08/99 - Letter to the Editor

03/01/99 - Slush Fun

02/15/99 - Rest in Peace, Wiarton Willie

02/01/99 - On King! On you huskies!

01/18/99 - Cold Comfort

01/04/99 - Black Holes 101

12/21/98 - Dreaming of a White Christmas

12/07/98 - Home For The Holidays

11/23/98 - Winter Surprises

11/09/98 - Deer Hunting Woes

10/26/98 - Vote and fall back

10/12/98 - Getting ours on the Gunflint

09/28/98 - Hitting bottom on Gunflint

09/21/98 - Brief shining moments

09/14/98 - What was that thing?