Seems appropriate to kick things off with the whispered words from the MSCL theme: the contest has begun.
The permanent contest page is here (or just look to your right; it’s at the top there).Feel …

Evidently the fine folks at Distortrait can smell what the GBC is cooking — they’ve put Kiefer on a girls’ bike.
That goes on a t-shirt, I’d better be getting one free. Thanks to reader Elle …

Hey Sars,
Yet another help-me-find-this-book question for the readers, if you don’t know off the top of your head. A book intended for probably the 12-14 audience, or slightly older. Some kind of post-apocalyptic scenario where …

Hi Sars,
I read a book about five years ago that I think was sort of recent at the time (2002-3). In those days I chose books to read almost purely by the graphic design, so …

Sars,
As a child I had a favorite book that was, my mother says, a folk tale from some Northern European country. Russia? The Ukraine? Norway? We can’t remember, or in any case disagree. It was …

Dear Sars,
I always thought that my first letter to you would contain at least a LITTLE drama or ethical dilemna, but here we have it.
I remember reading a wonderful book when I was around 10 …

There was a children’s book I loved as a kid. It was the story of a brother and sister who were transported to an alternate reality to rescue their grandparents. Their grandparents had fallen through …

Not exactly what I have in mind…  
It’s baaaaaaaack!
A year and a half ago, you wonderful, helpful, smart, generous, sweet-smelling, tasteful, education-minded people raised $30,000 for DonorsChoose and invited me to shave my head. Now …

It’s all even in the NL East. Unbelievable. Kay and Leiter can’t get their heads around it; I have to wonder what Darling and Hernandez have to say in the Mets booth. …Well, I know …

I had an entry half-written about how in the hell anyone is supposed to believe the Devil didn’t beat Johnny’s ass in “The Devil Went Down To Georgia,” but Wing directed me to the McSweeney’s …