recipe for a good vomit
Take two ounces of the finest white alum, beat it small, put it into better than half a pint of...
Sep 30th
minced oaths
make certain that there is NO liquid in your mouth when reading the last bullet or you will be doing...
Sep 30th
chaz babbage’s windows error report
ever since i...
Sep 30th
trivia tuesday
name an animal whose body is not symmetric. after consulting with elaine benes, you can find a very...
Sep 29th
an iris by any other smell
some flowers are named after...
Sep 29th
the adventures of alfred tennyson and...
charles babbage, the english mathematician and father of the modern computer wrote the following to...
Sep 28th
words wholly related
precocious & apricot both derive from the latin word, præcox (early-ripe). a precocious child...
Sep 28th
the ratio of horatio
an open letter to people with...
Sep 25th
words wholly unrelated
counsel & council they are pronounced the same and have overlapping meanings yet they are from...
Sep 25th
get this:
my next door neighbor refers to the usb port on his laptop as his laptop’s cornhole.
Sep 24th
word salad -or- semi-semiotics
i was throwing back apéritifs with an associate the other day and realised that through the course...
Sep 24th
how to be james thurber
In The Years with Ross, James...
Sep 23rd
civic duty
i hereby bequeath my copyright on this bitching...
Sep 23rd
for wunderpantry: 3,000 year-old bog butter »
Bog butter...
Sep 22nd
today is butter day at the ragbag
a b-list friend of mine just returned from paris where he took a two week haute cuisine cooking...
Sep 22nd
concerning butterflies
i thought i would write a post today that didn’t involve freaky sex terms or raw fraternity...
Sep 22nd
cracher par terre
ridiculous french schoolyard sign reads:...
Sep 21st
recipe for "light-as-air brunch"
Air, approximately 6 cubic feet 1 pound highest-grade sirloin 3 eggs 4 perfect lobsters ...
Sep 20th
know your fuds -or- how i misinterpreted an email from my...
Sep 18th
comic sans & courier
i whipped up this gag derivative...
Sep 18th
the panel game
i was called a smart alec on two separate occasions today and thus went immediately to wikipædia to...
Sep 17th
i created this cuz the tawdry ménage à trois among ...
Sep 17th
f-clichés
this week’s f-words are more properly f-clichés. of particular interest to yorrs tru-ly are ...
Sep 16th
today's todo list
Develop a new non-verbal system of communication independent of all known linguistic models....
Sep 15th
words wholly related
pork chops & porcelain both are ultimately from the latin porcus meaning pig. porcelain...
Sep 14th
arial & helvetica
on friday, i hosted a screening of...
Sep 14th
another grade-a firsty
Not everybody knows how I killed old Phillip Mathers, smashing his jaw in with my spade; but first...
Sep 11th
a single f-word
i was at the beach on labor day, rubbing a special blend of canola oil and lavender extract on my...
Sep 11th
my favourite first line of any first...
In the last years of the Seventeenth Century there was to be found among the fops and fools of the...
Sep 10th
the ex libris of charles “nazi smasher” de...
Sep 10th
sex libris
the above bookplate is evelyn waugh’s. the...
Sep 10th
how to get your girlfriend to be on...
1. refer to the stripper as an ecdysiast, just as the ancient greeks might have. thus: YOUR...
Sep 9th
cock ale
i have tasted some weird treats in my lifetime but the thought of adding chicken gravy (and nutmeg)...
Sep 9th
the gall-peters projection -or- the earth as your...
Sep 8th
deuteronomy 23:1
He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the...
Sep 8th
Watch
here is the vend diagram video that i yakked about yesterday, now embedded forever within the ones...
Sep 3rd
news bulletin (for immediate release): my former...
Sep 2nd
it's that time again
ever since my casio® digital watch got stuck on the 24-hour clock, so did i. like the american...
Sep 1st