When the great villains of horror movies and literature are listed, goo does not often make the list. Vampires? Check. Zombies? Oh yeah. Werewolves? Aaaaooooooo. Hannibal Lecter? Hello, Clarice ( Read more... )

Essayist David Rakoff is dead. Fuck cancer.

His near-monotone voice will probably be familiar to This American Life listeners.

I loved his collection, Don't Get Too Comfortable, and really enjoyed his performance as presidential assassin Leon Czolgosz in the audiobook version of Sarah Vowell's "Assassination Vacation."

Dead at 47. Fuck cancer

Actual headline on the web site of the Seneca Daily Journal today:

"Plan to be spontaneous this summer"

We all know about earworms, those songs that burrow deep inside your head and refuse to come out, right ( Read more... )

Some enterprising person should start a business that would deliver phones, landline or otherwise, to people so they can throw them against the wall without damaging company property ( Read more... )

So I could use this post, the first time I've posted here in a good long while, to fill you in on my life, or how things at the paper are going. To that I say, bah ( Read more... )

The first man to ever report seeing the Lizard Man (South Carolina's answer to Bigfoot) died last week in what police are saying is a drug-related shooting.

Bah. It's obvious that Lizard Man came back to finish the job.

...it'd be really easy for me to take Netflix telling me, "Jason, we think you'd enjoy Harakiri" the wrong way.

When I was a little kid, I want to be a pizza maker. I worked at pizza places off and on for years when I was older.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a writer. I've been with the newspapers for nearly three years.

In the interest of keeping this pattern alive, if anyone hears of any openings for an cowboy-pirate-spaceman, let me know.

A map of the murders in London in 1888, with links to the orginal Times articles.

http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/archive/tol_archive/article4669671.ece

Well, I'm not getting anything done at work tomorrow.