Trenchant.
$19.80
Buying sushi tonight, the bill comes to $19.80, and the nice guy at the register laughs “1980! — that was a good year!”
“Yeah!” I sez. “Yeah.” And I hand him my credit card.
“You had hair down to your … Read on Macduff...
I defy you
to name me
that movie one better be wouldn’t
male lead
with neil patrick harris.
with neil patrick harris.
with patrick neil harris.
Stalin’s Sexy Man-Apes: Sergei!
Yesterday we announced our multi-part world-exclusive inside look at “Stalin’s Sexy Man-Apes” — the quartet of part man, part ape creatures that everyone’s been talking about. CIA officials advised me to start by sitting down with Sergei — the oldest … Read on Macduff...
Stalin’s Sexy Man-Apes
In the mid-1920s a team of Soviet scientists led by a soft-spoken man named Ilya Ivanov began work on a secret project aimed at developing an army of ape-human hybrids. Picture a squad of these creatures attacking Berlin. Joseph Stalin … Read on Macduff...
Bean song
Counting beans, one for every
word you said today.
A waterfall of frozen
lima bean conversation.
Bright bean rage.
Soft, velvety heirloom beans.
Bean opera. Beans buzzing
in a thick glass jar.
Where do all these beans come from? —… Read on Macduff...
The Greatest Almost Entirely True Work Story Ever Told
It was another busy day at Amalgamated Skills — “Where we bring you the skills that you use to do things better than you would do otherwise, if you didn’t have the skills that we bring you.” Rhett Kronkhead, the … Read on Macduff...
Looking back
He described his life as a series of tasks
filled with the description of those tasks
how he’d cut the boards
what he did in the cotton gin
how he’d made the metal bracings for the chair in the front … Read on Macduff...
Are You Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Over the last year or two, a loose cabal of aliased co-conspirators has been using this site to tackle challenging books en masse — everything from the dread pirate Gravity’s Rainbow to the surprisingly Spanish Don Quixote. We call these … Read on Macduff...
A whole new TV genre (don’t you dare close your eyes)
As some of you already know, I’m taking a hiatus from the 9-5 life so I can spend more time walking my kids to school and working on my writing. Whenever this has come up in conversation, the question back … Read on Macduff...