The ten commandments of toilet paper
1. The leading edge of the roll cometh from over, not under. Only cat owners may be exempted from this commandment.
2. When thou fi..
Review: A sizzling “Doubt” by Ten Thousand Things
Though it’s only six years old, John Patrick Shanley’s play Doubt: A Parable has already become a contemporary classic. I attended Ten Tho..
A heist caper featuring all 58 shades of Kara Nesvig’s lipstick
The city was in the middle of an intense heat wave. The sunset was a heartless shade of crimson, like an electric cherry in a neon orange ..
Warning signs that you may have a dangerous addiction to fonts
You scour thrift stores for non-ironic uses of Cooper Black.
Your coworkers find you breathing heavily over their shoulders when th..
Why Slug's non-insult of Prince's music is like my aunt Gerta's non-insult of my aunt Frieda's sauerkraut
Slug, you’ll get no hate from me. I know people have been giving you a hard time today because you told Pitchfork that “Prince was a shi..
Jay Gabler's Guatemala: A blogger gone native
I’m not sure exactly what happened last night after Fatima and I shared a bottle of bootleg Four Loko she’d made by following an ancient..
An experiment: What will I write if I start writing before I know what I'm going to write?
My thoughts first turn to unicorns. Why unicorns? Maybe because they’re random and horny, like so many people I know and love.
But what..
Eleven suggested names for Starbucks cup sizes that are even bigger, and even more fun to say, than "Trenta Cup"
Gonzaga Cup
Wakka Wakka Cup
Uffda Cup
Macchu Picchu Cup
Manga Cup
Lottawatta Cup
Hubba Hubba Cup
Wowza Cup
Lollapa..
Ten things you need to know about surviving in the real world with a doctoral degree
So you’ve earned your Ph.D., but have succumbed to the temptations of the world outside academia, where people trim their nose hairs and..
Yes, Billy Joel, you can and you will continue to take it: American history since the Cola Wars
VP Bush is voted in, MC Hammer’s pants are pinned
Vanilla Ice, Andrew Dice, a thousand points of light
Clarence Thomas, Gulf War, L.A. r..
Classical music’s strange effects on children
“Witnessing performing can still have a powerful effect on the uninitiated, as Nupen himself knows: ‘I was told of a four-year-old c..
The greatest miracles of Rick Springfield Jesus
Rick Springfield, the Australian singer-songwriter who’s best known for the 1981 hit single “Jessie’s Girl” and for playing Dr. Noah Dra..