Slighcarp and Grimshaw

Marshmallows + Rubber Tubing + the Japanese = Laugh so hard I’m crying.

Inside the new Tom Cruise biography: Slate gets to the good stuff.
And, in case you were wondering what a Thetan does after death, here’s the straight poop from its Wikipedia page:
When a person dies – or, in Scientology terms, when a thetan abandons its physical body – they go to a “landing station” on the [...]

Jeff and I for the first time are truly following a presidential campaign. We think part of the reason this is the first we’ve followed is simply that we were too young/in college the last time this happened. By “this” I mean simultaneous Republican and Democratic races for the party nomination. I think this [...]

“Michael Pollan, I really do enjoy that Michael Pollan teeters on the edge of being a douchebag for me. But he really hasn’t gone over the edge yet. For me.” -Jeff Boyle, on Michael Pollan’s shortlist of book and music recommendations for Borders. Admire it here. Truly, go look. It includes Walden and Neil Young’s [...]

As many of you who read the blog may know, I quite enjoy the Harper’s Weekly Review. A couple weeks ago, 24 July 2007, they gave away a tiny Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows spoiler. Wait, I’ll find it for you:
Japan was gradually rearming itself. “Bombing,” said Col. Tatsuya Arima, “does not [...]

Hello to all! How has it been going! I have been slightly underslept for a long enough time that I’m considering just drinking tons of caffeine over the course of the entire day (as opposed to stopping before noon as per my rule for moderating caffeine intake) so as to be slightly high and better [...]

That’s right: graduation, the jail, family, my boring but good-paying office job, looking for a teaching job, and our formerly-neat-and-tidy-now-bulldozed- looking-wrecked-ass apartment tried to kill me with their demands on my time–but I prevailed and I came out of last week with an MFA in poetry. Dean Guma told me I was entitled to “all [...]

Turns out running Right to Write, Sarah Lawrence College’s prison writing initiative, at full tilt is a bit of a job. Writing about the experience while concurrently running the program at full tilt is turning out to be a questionable pursuit, but I’m entrenched in both already. So, damn.
In response to the [...]

OK, so I was just looking up Sarah on Wikipedia because my knowledge of the Bible isn’t so great. Wikipedia’s pretty proud of being user-generated and having eagle-eyed users who keep incorrect/ridiculous stuff out of the entries. Well, let’s just say they should be a little less proud (or more proud, perhaps?)
Look at this, from [...]