“I wrote 63 songs this year. They’re all about Jeter.” Just kidding. The game we love, the players we hate, and more.
From Norman Mailer to Wendy Pepper — everything on film, TV, books, music, and snacks (shut up, raisins), plus the Girls’ Bike Club.
Helping public schools, winning prizes, sending a crazy lady in a tomato costume out in public.
Monologues, travelogues, fiction, and fart humor. And hens. Don’t forget the hens.
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Because a few people have asked…fans of David Foster Wallace should read Troy Patterson’s write-up for Slate. Troy is a fellow vet of our college paper, and his take is on point as usual.
Well, …
It’s ambitious, the book — the subtitle, “How a Baseball Team’s Collapse Sank a City’s Spirit,” is indicative of the grand parallels Mitchell Nathanson intends to draw between the Phillies’ Keystone kollapse to the Dodgers …
I’m looking for a WP widget for use with photos, one that either 1) allows me to put a graphic ONTO the photo (a little cartoon head, a virtual Post-It, like that), or 2) works …
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Cookie dough vs. mint chocolate chip. I have the same problem with cookie dough ice cream that I have with candy corn: I can’t eat just one kernel, or just …
From The House Next Door poobah Keith Uhlich:
I’m helping to run a film society in my neighborhood called “Film Park Slope.” It’s held, as long as scheduling allows, every month at Congregation Beth Elohim(271 Garfield …
I’m trying to find out the name of a show that I think was either on FOX or UPN.It was on TV roughly in the same time period as Dark Angel, and I believe it …
And now, your Frozen Four match-ups: cookie dough vs. mint chocolate chip and strawberry vs. vanilla.Mildly surprised that neither peanut-butter-based entry survived, especially in the case of strawberry’s victory (which came by the narrowest of …
The evidence that Don is an angel is compelling, provided you’re inclined to believe it in the first place: his date of “birth” is September 11; he appeared when I needed him, and withdrew (to …
Dear Sars,
I have this friend, let’s call her Poodle. We’re both in college (senior year) and have been best friends since our very first day when we were both terrified whimpering freshmen. I love her …
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Cookie dough vs. chocolate. Chocolate is a strong default, but I think cookie dough scores higher on the “unable to put down the pint until it’s …