Monthly Archives: March 2007

Atlas contemplates his crotch

More unacceptable and peculiar statuary here.

Assume a guarded crouch

The April Fools’ Day Defense Kit Several years ago, a friend failed to assume the guarded crouch and was completely taken in by this story published by Discover magazine. She received the news that this was a joke with absolutely horrible grace … which was really, really funny. Which made her even angrier. This might [...]

Saturday

After the complete terribleness of yesterday, which resulted in a foil nose, I am determined to make today better. To that end I am going on some excursions that I will be sure to enjoy: the local flea market, a huge garden center, an Asian grocery. Between the mild sunniness of the day, the good [...]

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List of weapons that don’t exist, but should. HAHAHAHAHAHA. Wheeeeee. Awesome.

Outside Trondheim

“The trees lost their leaves to the slow creep towards winter, the light started to weaken, declining into a mid-afternoon dusk. I lived in a hut by a fjord and walked through the twilight mornings, across fields dusted with a light coating of snow, a coating which thickened as the winter became darker. The stillness [...]

The gift that keeps on giving

It occurs to me that in the spirit of how I acquired it, I should pass this book along to someone else. If you want it, send me an email and I’ll mail it to you. I promise to neither judge nor humiliate you. Seriously. I boldly and shamelessly carried it to my apartment from [...]

I have green foil wrapped around the tip of my nose right now.

And don’t you just wish I’d take a picture of it? I’ve had a bad day thus far. Slept badly, woke up defective and inferior, look like hell, and am generally frustrated and clumsy. So I wrapped some green foil* around the tip of my nose and informed my co-workers that I had been in [...]