Out of Sight, Like a Pumpkin

I noticed that Paul Collins is again updating his website, in blog form, this time. I haven't completely dug through the archives, but...

Tom Wolfe, eat your heart out.

In the spirit of Bob Newhart, here's "Ladies and Gentlement, This is Your Captain Speaking." Speaking of Newhart, I was list...

I suppose I could just let you catch up on reading McSweeney's yourself, if you were interested, rather than posting every other article...

A sestina to Thrasher magazine.

The Fabulous Friends : Conservative Christian Groups' least-favorite all-star cartoon.

Poor Tanner's condition keeps getting better and worse. He was doing fine until Wednesday night. He got up around one, and threw up tw...

I think Tanner is doing better now, after his condition got worse Thursday night and Friday morning. They gave him a shot Friday morning, a...

Tanner is not well. Yesterday, he started crying out in pain, but we couldn't see anything wrong with him. But that evening, he seeme...

So, I have become yet another proud iPod user. I'd been looking at them for some time, and in the last week or two began really serious...

I just checked in at MoPA 's web site, to see what movies are coming up, and I see Takeshi Kitano's Dolls will be playing January 2...

How to hook up your iPod to your car stereo. Just a link so I can find this later...I am considering buying an iPod, though I hardly use m...

The theory of relativity expressed with words of four letters or less.

A reflection on Nellie McKay by way of Randy Newman.

Sunset Bowl is closing. I always had trouble getting a lane there. I imagine that is partly due to the closing of other alleys and consol...

Now that school has started, I find myself complaining about the lack of free time which I wasted away when I had it over the vacation. I d...

So a new quarter of school is now underway. I cannot exactly say that my classes are absolutely riveting, but they are probably a bit more ...

My aunt and uncle apparently suggested to my mother that I should buy their cemetery plot from them. They are moving to Colorado, and appar...

A San Diego company is exploring a drug to treat compulsive gambling . The wisdom of trying to find a pill that corrects each and every men...

A very happy new year to you all. This is of course the traditional time for resolutions, and I have decided to follow the old tried and tr...