Dr. Know
Greetings to you mammalia! Hah! Hoo-hah! I’ve created a word! Ah, linguistics. Quite a feeble study, is it not? It is. Does it count as…
arts
Vintage isn’t just cool anymore, it’s green too!
Waiting outside for an hour in -30 C weather, and dressed in only enough to leave me with a cold for the rest of the…
Tapas time
Tapas parties are gaining popularity around the world. Tapas is a dish of savory bite-sized snacks that are designed to be shared and enjoyed. Spanish…
Upside down
DOWN I’m sick of people thinking that they are better than me and I’m sick of me thinking that I am better than them simply…
In a land far, far away
That game was awesome! I realize that the gold medal win will be old news by the time this goes to print, but if you…
Conan fever
In a post, with the fitting title “No Bread for the Redhead,” TMZ reported that Conan O’Brien isn’t making any money from his upcoming 30-city…
Fried brains and Sam
As I went in no particular direction, for no particular reason, sifting and sloshing my mass of formless molecules through some kaleidoscope reality, I was…
Writing rainbow
Daria Salamon, author of the Prairie Bridesmaid, finds that she does her best writing when she starts at 10 p.m. and works away into the…
Chew on this
Martha Street Studio is filled with eye candy. Bacon bookmarks, mock bubble gum modeling clay, “Pollick’s lollipops” and other novelty items that all look good…
Lovely Rita
It’s back. Did we think that, just because, in 1983, Michael Caine and Julie Walters did such a memorable job in the movie version of…