Category Archives: general

So there’s a banner ad (on Greg Dean’s Real Life Comics) that reads: Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend but do diamonds hold all of her d20’s? Yeah, we didn’t think so. Naturally, each “o” in the second line … Continue reading →

Binyavanga Wainaina in Granta Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel Prize. An AK-47, prominent ribs, naked breasts: use these. If you must … Continue reading →

If anyone has a right to tell blond jokes, I have.

This Soapmaker is my former neighbor. It’s not a good likeness. (Posting mainly to save the link.)

Jerome K. Jerome – or his fictional counterpart “J.” – says in chapter 5 of Three Men on the Bummel:   I do not regard the conveyance of useful information as my forte. This belief was not inborn with me; … Continue reading →

City Journal Autumn 2002 | The Starving Criminal by Theodore Dalrymple It is the breakdown of the family structure – a breakdown so complete that mothers do not consider it part of their duty to feed their own children once … Continue reading →

“What was it I wanted at Trader Joe’s? Oh, right, I’m on a diet.” “I wouldn’t put it past them to name a product that. ‘Oh Right I’m On A Diet’ brand tofu chips.”