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I suggested this story and even I am shocked and delighted at just how unhinged it all gets; suggesting this story is maybe my greatest contribution to society?? And her name, like mine, is ANN!!

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Great suggestion Ann! But I dare say there is much more where this idea came from :)

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Really excelling yourself here. I'm starting a bar called "The Cult & Swindle."

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I’m always excited when I see another Dirtbag story hit my Inbox. I mean, I settle in with a blanket and popcorn. Better than any Netflix documentary! 🤣

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Revive the Flying Rollers of the New Eve. It’s not possible to create a better name for a cult.

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With Pride and Prejudice being written well before this dirtbag was born, I choose to believe at one point she did indeed demand a pulse check on the shades of pemberly and their pollution levels

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"As late as 1917, grifters were trying to sell novels by claiming they’d been possessed by the ghost of Mark Twain while they were writing..."

...only to be found out by the fact that what they produced lacked his skill, charm and wit.

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Sounds awfully like those synthetic wannabe writers... one's named Claude, another ChatGPT, another is simply perplexed....

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“I hesitate to call this a meet-cute…” 😂 Not only spiritual swindling, but also stabbing and nun(ning); my three favourite elements of dirtbaggery!

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always gonna be good when lola montez pops in

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That was utterly in entrancing, horrifying, and delightful.💕 thank you.

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Man, this was good.

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Great stuff, thank you! This tale itself could be the best lost Charles Portis novel ever. But your voice really makes these Dirtbag posts zing. Bravo!

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Oh man she’s glorious!

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Congrats on the ebooks!

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The Descendants of Itinerant Rolling Theosophists Bringing About God’s Salvation (or Bragging About Grifters’ Success)

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OMG DAN

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How about this one? Chosen Ones of the Enlightened Sect of the Dirtbag

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I would join that cult immediately.

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The title picture — I recognize her. Aunt Bea! From Mayberry. Barney will lose his mind over this.

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