2008

May

ALL CHURCHES LIE — TRAPS ARE SET FOR YOU — BEAST...

Apr

You,re doing it wrong.

The four steps to comedic mastery.

1. Prospecting for humor 2. Mining the humor 3. Refining the humor 4. Presenting humor — From an...

Test footage of a pin popping a water balloon from a new high-speed camera — at 2000...

Select Nuts: An Afternoon in the Castro, from Merlin Mann. (AKA, Wizard Nonwizardd.)

What do you suppose...

“…is the scarcest item in Alaska? Women! Men who run from the States to escape them find...

“You Really Got a Hold on Me” by She & Him, from the album Volume One.

The website for We Tell Stories, a free online publishing...

"Yale art student Aliza Shvarts' senior art...

“Rockin’ Our Sales”, by Bruce ServicePack and the Vista Street Band — an...

The strange, strange story of Kaspar Hauser.

From one man’s Refacing American Tender photoset on...

“Highlights of his global tour include encounters with Nelson...”
— From a description of a Peter...

Living it up while I'm going down.

“As the emergency bell rang and rang, he began to fear that it might somehow—electricity?...

“So, the caterpillar has emerged from the cocoon… as a...”
— C. Montgomery Burns, from the...

So fucking true. (From boxforge.)

“I would like to thank my parents, Ayn Rand and Jesus.”
— Author unknown; an example...

“Dragon rock has a lot more fire, and burning in it than...”
— Darius Wilkins, age 8, of...

“Businessmen they drink my wine plowmen dig my earth none of...”
— “All Along the...

Music Lessons. The best thing ever? You tell me. And...

“Portland, Oregon” by Loretta Lynn, featuring Jack White, from the album Van Lear Rose.

“Let the words be simple and bare when the beauty is in the...”
— Harry Shefter, from that damn...

There are three essential qualities for...

High mountains. A strong sun. A rich supply of unburied corpses. — Repurposed from an example...

From The Amazing, Often Extraordinary Adventures & Art...

“She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes...”
— Lord Byron. I’ve been...

Lies I've told my 3-year-old recently.

Trees talk to each other at night. All fish are named either Lorna or Jack. Before your eyeballs...

Previously on LOST: What?

Britain's fallen soldiers: In memoriam.

Algernon Bottomside Percival P. Puckernubbin Wing Cmdr. Basil Morningwood Remington Snatch Cecil...

“There is also a legend of a place called the Black Lodge,...”
— Deputy Hawk from Twin Peaks,...

For those not familiar with early 90’s hacker movies...

Some kind of gram.

Josef: Have you seen my towel?
Me: Which one?
Josef: You know, the brown, mammogrammed one.
Me: (smirking) The what what?
Josef: (beat) Monogrammed. Monogrammed!

Not the namesake of this tumble log.

“half a bottle of Jack’s, and a belly full of regret.”
— Paul F. Tompkins. One in an...

This Problem of Narcotic Addiction —...

“Approximately 50,000 people in the United States today are narcotic addicts. They commit over...

“Alright guys, you’ve got a Jedi on board! Prepare for...”
— An enthusiastic, non-ironic...

About this space.

We’ll be a little more careful this time, letting people in on the secret. Gradually, slowly,...