Ten Things Filmmakers Wish Had Never Been Invented
E-mail. It used to be that when a character made it big, you could tell: the fan mail started piling photogenically up. Love letters c..
Word Games Were Invented to Humiliate Me
In Christian theology, Purgatory is a place of penance, a pre-Heaven zone where the souls of the departed have to wait and spend time repe..
I Am Like a Weeble When I Am Dead
climbing onto this church/ thank god/ carrying a giant rake with me to scare walking individuals
last february i drove home from th..
Cheap Halloween Costume Ideas
Roy Orbison: Put on a pair of Ray-Bans, borrow someone’s guitar, lie on the floor like you’re dead, and retweet everyone who mentions ..
Types of Book Clubs
Overly Ambitious Book Club
“Did anyone read this month’s book, Ulysses?”
“Nope.”
“Sorry.”
“I checked it out of the library.”
“Oka..
My Humanist Years
I was raised Catholic, but one night in my freshman year of college I lay down on my bed, thought about it for a minute, and decided I did..
Best/Realest Tweets of the Week, 10/16-10/22/11
– Compiled by @JayGabler
In Defense of Tom Cruise
Today I started writing a different post about movies, but realized that before I could write about my favorite movies, I was going to..
Megan Boyle talks about poetry, alt lit, and “Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee”
“i’ve been having regular sex with this guy
“he hits my cats on their heads and they look insulted”
Catholic School Fundraisers: My Journey From Ecstasy to Agony
Yesterday the Catholic school in my parents’ St. Paul neighborhood had a “care-a-thon,” which excited my mother when Minnesota Twins star ..
Cultural Studies, Kiss My Ass
Today my writerly friends have been gleefully tossing around a blog post by The New Yorker‘s Alex Ross, in which Ross looks back and s..
Top Ten Male Screen-Star-to-Radio-Star Attempts of the 1980s
10. Kevin Costner. If Kevin Costner was really serious about his music career, he would’ve kicked it off in the 80s, when he was riding hi..