To read: Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends
To watch: The Trials of Darryl Hunt
To wear: MAC Splashproof Lash; Aerosoles …

The winner of the “Kerosene and Spiders” mini-contest appears below.
What garnered this entry winning status? The random capitalization and the jump into the story with no lead-up; use of the terms “expiring” and “fairer sex”; …

Lance Mannion, in the midst of discussing David Halberstam:

One of baseball’s great beauties is that it is played at the speed of a human voice’s ability to keep up. It’s the only team sport that …

Okay, here’s my problem. I’m 31, single, I don’t want to be, and I’m wondering if I’m being too picky. Typical, huh? Maybe not so much. This might actually be a case where the guy …

We had a rerun this week, but it needed recapping, and now it’s done.

Chad says his girlfriend is out of town and he doesn’t “have a curfew,” as if that is the point or anything …

Dear Sarah,
I was born and raised in St. Louis until I left for college, and one of the things that I left with was an undying loyalty to the 2006 World Champion St. Louis Cardinals.
Sorry, …

(Note: This is not the contest, which I’ve rescheduled for the summertime. This is just a contest.)
The Scientific American entry spawned a few comments that got me thinking — what if I tried to write …

Long ago, in an economy far far away, I had a job at Holtzbrinck Electronic Publishing. Holtzbrinck, a German company with many American-publishing holdings, also owned Scientific American, at least at that time; also at …

Did you see the most recent episode of Lost, called “Catch-22”? It made me cranky because there was no actual Catch-22 in it. I’ve always understood a Catch-22 to be a situation in which two …

BSD and I always bet on the season series between Boston and the Yankees; I think I won last year, but it’s not looking good for ’07 after the Bosox completed a sweep of the …