HEY POETS!
Are you tired of posting your poems online only to receive an inappropriate level of praise? Or worse, garnering actual criticism?!
Well, you need never be hit with a surprise poem critique again! Just slip one of these handy-dandy qualifiers near the beginning of your posted poem so that people know exactly what level of interaction you ( Read more... )

(As originally presented on Twitter.)

This is sort of a "Poetry Is Doomed" addendum.

You know what's funny about people digging up old articles you wrote? They find stuff you said you’d do but didn’t. To that end, in the third installment of my "Poetry Is Doomed" column I very casually mentioned that there were about 50 reasons why being a jazz ( Read more... )

I wanted to know if the Oval Office had a computer in it, so I emailed the White House to find out what was up. When it came time for me to enter the code words to send the message through these two words popped up for me to type to verify my humanity:


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Setlist of "Lewis Black Hates the Weather"

An email exchange gone horribly wrong:

Louise Robertson:: She expects everyone to be on the same page as she is and her page is written the way Jackson Pollock painted pictures, except she's not as verbose. *

Me: I chuckled out loud at [your] Pollock reference ( Read more... )