Yesterday, at about 2:30 in the afternoon, someone or something destroyed the water main that feeds my neighborhood. My psyche working the way it does, the instant I heard this news I went from feeling fresh, air conditioned, and comfortable to instantly feeling like the sweatiest, filthiest non-Hilton who ever lived. No condition changed except […]

Ten years ago today, I had been out of college for about six weeks. I had taken four years that were supposed to be about a)intensive study in my chosen field or b) intensive care after partying four nights a week and chosen c) “neither,” devoting the bulk of my time to student quasi-government and […]

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Did Paul Shaffer do the music for Pirates?
Does Chevy Chase play the undead monkey?
I’ll be workin’ on this one like a Rubik’s Cube for the rest of the week.

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NOT PICTURED ON THE COVER: a thing that happened in the news this week
Problem: things keep happening, and you don’t have time to keep up with them all. More to the point, things that seem like a big deal on Tuesday turn out not to be worth a good […]