“Overpriced” Notebooks, “Hipster GameBoys,” and Your Abrasive Brand Ambassador
A repentent Gen X-er balances his sincere love of small businesses with a need to be cynical and suspicious of everything
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Once Upon a Black Rainbow
Two tunes celebrating St Vincent’s fairy tale take on repression and depression
Literacy 2026: Book 5: Strange Pictures
“The Japanese Mystery-Horror Sensation” about sinister messages hidden in drawings
Farm Girl Has Weird Dream
Internet fun with movies made even more boring
Ha-ha, gottem! (Round 12 of 13,768)
A friendly reminder to anyone who’s been left lost and wandering through the zeitgeist after winning the most recent culture war
Literacy 2026: Book 4: The Ending Writes Itself
The “meta thriller” debut novel from Evelyn Clarke about authors trapped on a secluded island competing to write the best ending
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Swiftly Flow the Days
Two tunes warning John Mayer’s urethra not to come creeping ’round my back stairs
My pens!
Speed-running through a new fixation on fountain pens, which are supposed to be all about slowing down
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Remember His Song
Two tunes from Labi Siffre and the 1970s as a decade that never ended
Our Dumb Country
Maybe we can try celebrating on the 251st
Pangrammer, or, Zeke Just Bought the Quietest Pixies CDs for His Family in West Virginia
A new time-wasting web toy for no good reason
Pride and Curb Cuts
Simple thoughts about how LGBTQ pride helps everybody (but that’s no reason not to keep celebrating it)