TWoP’s Oscars coverage is up, including the real-time blog, featuring Matt Zoller Seitz, Odienator, Joe R, and myself; and the post-telecast Galaxy Of Fame, written by me with assists from Wing and Joe.

But it’s jury duty which the United States Postal Service chooses to honor with a stamp.
Hundreds of thousands of species of flora and fauna. Dozens upon dozens of minor holidays; myriad dead Americans of significant …

I apologize for the interruption in service; something that remains unidentified attacked the database server (it may have been one of the comments, although that explanation doesn’t quite add up), and the site went down …

After a 15-minute conversation with Skyrockets the other night in which each of us claimed that our local post office is the worst in Brooklyn — and I’ve gone to his, but mine is Van …

“It’s a stupid name!”   “So’s your face!”
The UN free-rice vocab game, guaranteed time-suck for word-nerd know-it-alls like me (thanks to reader Smash for the tip).
The new TWoP blogs, with daily picks and random bitching …

Not the Sox themselves — and congrats to the team and its fans, by the way — but Charles P. Pierce on Slate.com, who sours an otherwise  serviceable season overview by taking the obligatory slap …

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 …

What do they have in common?They’ve both made me very very tired today — the P. of I. because he clogged up traffic something fierce in midtown all day long, and excuse me, but why …

 
After the great foot-flaying of Tuesday, I faced a dilemma yesterday morning: what to wear on my feet?The current wearer of the comf crown in my footwear kingdom is a pair of dollar-store flip-flops I …

Thanks at least in part to your votes, Donors Choose has made it into the final round of the American Express Members Project — one of five finalists.
 
One of the other five finalists, though, isn’t …