Double Feature Day!

1: UMaine's Dead Plant Society: No one will read this, but I'm really happy with it: Turning over and old leaf

2: Two kids makin' sweet internet videos.
Maybe They're Just Not Funny

I am pretty happy with my story about Matt McEntee, which you can read here. It's the first thing I have written for The Maine Campus in a while. Hope you like it.

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I've either found my spiritual guru, or my new favorite jazz musician for family functions. I can't really tell.

Wolf Blitzer, who is named after an indie-rock band from another universe, had the best inauguration speech of them all today:

They’re supposed to spend 40 minutes inside for this coffee, as it’s called, David [Gergen]. They call it a coffee. I don’t know if they’re drinking coffee or what they’re drinking. Maybe hot chocolate. Maybe tea. But it’ ( Read more... )

I had this idea for a reality television series while brushing my teeth. It would be called "Celebrity Exception," and the show would be about couples who have "celebrity exceptions," ie, agreements with their spouses that they can cheat on each other, but only if it is with such-and-such a celebrity ( Read more... )

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Detective 'Stripes' Purrington, on the case. (Literally, a bookcase ( Read more... )

This has been something of a legend for me, so I am pleased that the Web has finally harvested such riches.

It's really, really uncomfortable to watch.

In one of my art classes passed me randomly at the other day and said, "I had a dream about you. But in my dream, you were a small boy, who imparted wisdom. With a beard."

Today I ordered a pumpkin muffin: "I'll have a pumpkin muffin." But it ended up coming out more like, "I'll have a pumpkin, muffin," to the female barista. I felt awkward.