Oct 03, 2016 07:05AM ● By Otis Twelve
We all know the old quote. “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” This kind of persistence is considered a virtue, especially when...
Aug 26, 2016 05:35PM ● By Otis Twelve
There are two things everybody has…” Those are the wise words of my grandfather, Johannes, who hated Kaiser Bill, loved bacon ends, and work...
Jul 20, 2016 09:12AM ● By Otis Twelve
Being a suburbanite—a classification that gnaws at the very fabric of my bohemian soul—I find myself more and more obsessed with the vegetat...
Mar 25, 2016 02:28PM ● By Otis Twelve
Mirrors Covered in lives And streaked with assignations and carrots on buns and snails and fine wine and fruit in vodka jars as large as yo...
Dec 04, 2015 09:42AM ● By Otis Twelve
We pause now for a moment of silence in memory of the plethora, the genus, phylum, and species of old jokes japing the male’s propensity to ...
Oct 20, 2015 01:30PM ● By Otis Twelve
Never… Ever… Never, never, get involved with a writer.Now, that is not to say that writers are not nice people. Many of them are perfectly ...
Jul 17, 2015 12:35PM ● By Otis Twelve
This article appears in July/August 2015 Omaha Magazine.I get up every weekday morning at 10 minutes after three.Let me repeat, it’s very da...
Jun 01, 2015 01:00PM ● By Otis Twelve
This column was printed in the 2015 May/June issue of Omaha Magazine.It says right there in an old bio I sent out years ago, “I was once Pau...
Mar 09, 2015 08:00AM ● By Otis Twelve
Originally published in March/April 2015 Omaha MagazineSo an old friend said to me, “I used to like living in Omaha, but now it’s too big.”P...
Oct 10, 2001 11:03AM ● By Otis XII
Cabbage is used by many cultures, and treated in many different ways. Otis Twelve explains his inexplicable (due to his now-confirmed herita...
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