Unless you’ve seen someone brain another person with a brick for no reason at all this morning, I’m reasonably certain this will be the worst thing you see today. It is crazy how unbelievably condescending and racist stuff was about Asians not so long ago. There was this weird rule that no Asian person could [...]

They have not yet invented words for how much I hated this kid. But there it is, kids– this was what people did pre-internet. Instead of downloading pre-written reports, we had to schlep to the library to photocopy encyclopedias and plagiarize vast swaths of stuff, switching a word here and there for plausible deniability. Share [...]

Via Plaid Stallions. I had the Batman. The jointed nature of this wall-hanging proved to be its undoing as my constant futzing with it to get just the right, perfect pose pretty quickly spelled doom for the arms. Here’s what I sort of miss about the 70s era of toy-stuff. It was licences and properties [...]

Be water, my friend. What I love about this seemingly esoteric, mystical imagery about the nature of identity and approach is that it is practical advice on how to enter a situation where your goal is to beat the crap out of another person. In context, this is something he wrote as lines of dialog [...]

Ohmigod. Our president was the cutest pirate in the world. And wow, look how much he grew up to look like his mom; that’s the same face-shape and chin. Watch for Donald Trump and/or other birther-assholes to use this photo to try to prove that he was born in Somalia. Share this:PrintFacebookDigg

It is an internet, facebook and Twitter meme that today is “Skynet Day.”  According to the Terminator movies, the Armageddon-bringing computer network known as “Skynet” became self-aware at 8:11PM, April 19, 2011. Shortly thereafter, according to the movie and its series of lesser sequels (don’t get me started with claims that T2 was somehow better. It [...]

This is amazing news. Now, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln researcher has discovered nearly 3,000 previously unknown Whitman documents from that era — a trove of information that sheds new light on the legendary poet’s post-war thinking, as well as on Whitman’s published reflections on the state of the nation. The documents they found were things [...]

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It is the two-year anniversary of my dad dying today. Yesterday was his birthday; he very nearly Mark Twained, my Pop. A few days after he died, I found myself in rather a state. Processing not only the fact that he was gone and no longer here and no longer alive, but also, for the [...]

Twenty two years ago, my mother threw my father a surprise 50th birthday party. People from his past came, some across country, to attend… My parents were kind of poor as church-mice, so the guests actually had to pay for the honor of coming, in lieu of a gift. Which they did. My dad could [...]

Christopher Hewitt, TV’s Mr. Belvedere. He does something so magical and amazing here that there may not be words for it. It’s part ham, it’s part over-the-top-British-queening, it’s part awkward and it’s all awesome. Listen to his ad-libs and crazy-creepy sex-sounds at the idea of eating stuff and know the power and majesty of the [...]

Also, in honor of poetry-month (?), here’s a passage that I commited to memory when I was in High School and Walt Whitman was like revealed wisdom to me. My dad had given me a copy of Whitman’s collected works when I was in, like, 8th grade or so, after I made some dumb-ass statement about how [...]