Today, my boss found out that a certain celebrity whose book we are about to publish was sent to jail for rape 60 years ago. However, we have thousands of dollars invested in the project already, so we can't pull out without throwing away our money. We know the book will sell, but we're a company known for producing books by "American heroes". I, ( Read more... )

I'm a unicorn, apparently. Sarah sent me an e-mail with the (inaccurate) story of Gwen Arrujo, a transgendered girl who got beaten to death in California in.. 1999? I think. The article went on to say that she was a rare unicorn and everyone around her was a ravenous hyena ( Read more... )

Yesterday, the ultimate battle between my masculine and feminine side took place. It was a cold morning. As I woke up, I felt that today would be different. There was something palpable in the air. Little did I know the trials and tribulations that would lie in wait for me as the clock ticked closer to impending doom, and that in only a few hours, ( Read more... )

Today, we had a customer order a book named "Boners". The customer's name? M. Lewinsky.

Yesterday, I had this feeling of total paranoia/anxiousness/one-step-away-from-hyperventilating. It was like a palpable sense of impending doom. If I could just reach out and grasp it, my fingers would enclose a cold, death-like.. thing. I don't know. The whole day, I couldn't explain why I felt that way. I talked with Sarah about it at the end of ( Read more... )

Okay, so, apparently, Abraham Lincoln invented something along his way to the presidency and doing some other stuff. He came up with a way to navigate vessels over shoals. Its the only known invention he got a patent for.


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This is a letter I got to transcribe a couple of weeks ago. Its pretty neat, if you like anything about history. Written by Andrew Jackson.


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I have an awesome job sometimes. This is a letter written during the Civil War by one of the troops. It's dated January 5, 1863


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