Author Archives: Brandon Claycomb

About Brandon Claycomb

Brandon Claycomb grew up in Hodgenville, Kentucky, near where Abraham Lincoln was born. When he isn’t serving up Monday posts as the sous-chef at The Philosophy Bistro, he’s usually working on his novel about the adventures of the illegitimate American daughter of Charles Dickens in pre-Civil War Illinois. A couple of years ago, under the combined influence of Lewis Carroll and a dubious latte, he wrote a ridiculous story about a dyspeptic rodent, which lives on at www.herbalthegerbil.com.

In The Drunk Tank

Brandon Claycomb spends the night in a Kentucky jail so that you don’t have to. Continue reading

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The 50 Greatest Civil War Names

In honor of the 4th of July, Brandon Claycomb does the deep research required in order to list the 50 Greatest Names of the Civil War, starting with Jubal Early. It only gets better from there. Continue reading

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