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1. I now have archives! Just 2004, from January through the present, but that’s good enough for now. The rest will be forthcoming in a not so timely, probably haphazard manner. Cheers.
2. Okay, seriously, don’t even try to convince me that there is a better ice cream flavor on earth than superman, because you’d just […]

Before I get to the other stuff, I just want to say that kids are awesome for many reasons, one of them being that they apparently do not have to obey the rules of postage. Case in point:

I got a letter from one of my students yesterday, mailed with a one-cent stamp. Yep. […]

This past Friday and Saturday, I got to learn how to be a funktified poetry DJ by helping out with the LitKicks 24 Hour Poetry Party. I had a lot of fun staying up all night, listening to my massive iTunes playlist that includes a little bit of everything from Ricky Martin to Wilco, […]

Upon reflection, I’ve realized that I lead an utterly fascinating life. I’m sure you didn’t know this, but, well, I do, and that’s what counts. Anyway, since my life is so filled with wondrous wondrousness, I know that at some point, I will have to write my autobiography. My memoirs. Of […]

First of all, I just need to get this out of the way:

Yes, the Super 9. For when 8 is not enough.
Other than that, well, really. Is there anything other than that?

I was just reading this thing on McSweeney’s (which I don’t want to link because I have a deep-seated hatred for McSweeney’s, yet I still read it on occasion because I’m weird), about a guy who got Radiohead’s Kid A in the mail right before his birthday and this song on it became the soundtrack […]

Good lord, I live in a wasteland. Everywhere I turn, I am hit in the face or at the very least, pointed-and-laughed at by the utter wrongness of how things seem to be in this wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong world. Let me explain:
Entertainment:
Item 1: The Worst Book Ever Written
I’ll begin by saying […]

Today is the July 4th, which means that every redneck with a cigarette lighter (read: every redneck) who lives in my town will be lighting fireworks for the next three weeks. Loudly. While I’m trying to sleep. Verily I say unto you, it is a grand time of year.
Anyway, to be moderately […]