In case you haven’t seen this yet, here is an awesomely mind-numbing thread on presidents from FARK.com.

My new action hero (created at HeroMachine 2.0). She uses photosynthesis to power her rocket jet wings and lightning bolt hair. Weapons? She doesn’t need weapons. She can zap you with photons at the flap of an eyelash, or oxidize you to ashes with one little breath.

I know blogging about dreams is pretty lame … But I felt that this read like short fiction, so I thought I’d be lame anyway. Enjoy! ———————————————————————- I was living in what seemed to be my current apartment, but which uncharacteristically had a rooftop deck with a pool and jacuzzi. When I went up…

If you’re into short short stories (or if you don’t like reading fiction because it’s too long) you’ll enjoy Esquire’s Napkin Fiction Project. The magazine mailed plain white cocktail napkins to 250 authors around the country and published the results online. While I haven’t read them all, one of my favorites is The Holdup…

I really liked this poem from today’s “The Writer’s Almanac“, so I’m reprinting it here… Poem: “A New Lifestyle” by James Tate from Memoir of the Hawk. The Ecco Press. (buy now) A New Lifestyle People in this town drink too much coffee. They’re jumpy all the time. You see them drinking out of…

To commemorate the occasion, a “Top 10 Books The Nation Can’t Live Without” list has been compiled. Tolkien and Harry Potter have beat the Bible. And I’m currently reading, and very much enjoying, the second half of #8. The top ten are as follows: 1) Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 20% 2) Lord of…

Tropical Storm Ernesto is ruining Labor Day plans. I offer the following quote from The Five Orange Pips, a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle.“All day the wind had screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced to…

Solidarity for Pluto Let’s all show our solidarity for pluto by shaving our heads, thus turning them into little planetoid-esque balls. If you can’t do that, raise a fist to show solidarity for our dissed little “dwarf” planet.