Tourists, Retirees, and Other Reasons to Stay in Bed Book

David Grimes' humor column runs three times a week in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. David began writing his humor column in 1985 when it became clear he had no talent for other, more useful jobs ath the paper.

Somehow the rumor got started that David has an anti-Canadian bias. Nothing could be further from the truth. During the course of a year, only a fraction (22 percent) of David's columns make any reference whatsoever to Canadians, and many times his remarks are flattering sympathetic, or, at the very least, non-libelous. In fact, given the choice, he would much rather write nasty things about the French.

David was born in 1952 in Sharon, Pennsylvania, a city that Money magazine once dubbed the Least Cultured City in America. He moved in 1976 to Brandenton, Florida, which he scads of cultural opportunities, many of which can be seen walking alon 14th street late at night. He and his wife, Teri, live in a heavily mortgaged house with balky turned their driveway into a skateboard park, and a 4-year-old pug named Buster, whose motto is "Whatever you are eating is better than whatever I am eating." David has worked at home since 1998, when management took away his desk to make room for a snack machine. This is his first book.