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My old friend Trayfnyak has lately written that "It's normal to be bored ... Anyone who thinks otherwise has been reading too much uplifting literature, which, like Baudelaire, is for the feeble minded and pretentious only."
What Trayfnyak perhaps hasn't had as much occasion as I to note is that literature is such a reliably effective way of becoming bored ( Read more... )

Do to weather-related delays, I spent ten hours yesterday in the icy clutches of the Dallas-Fort Worth airport. Here are some things that I learned.

1. Airport bookstores can be interesting. Amid the usual horrors (The Five People you Meet In Heaven) and the Special New Embarrassments to American Letters (I Am Charlotte Simmons), I saw, of all ( Read more... )

At a bar on monday night I got very drunk and had an odd conversation with this hairy guy who produced television shows for New Jersey public access television. He seemed sad, so I grabbed a napkin and quickly made for him a crudely-drawn sketch of my new imaginary aquatic friend, Beauregard, the dolphin of exquisite despair.

Then, after ( Read more... )

from The Metrosexual Guide to Style, a "national bestseller" by Michael Flocker.
To change the course of history, you'll probably require more than the amusing little handbook you now hold before you. But, regardless of your origin or your chosen path, knowing a little bit about a lot of things is far preferable to staggering blindly through life ( Read more... )

New from the Arts-n-Crafts desk of Ubermaus Industries:

Looking for a gift for that hard-to-please someone on your holiday gift guide? Try these:

Celebrate the human anatomy with a knit uterus-doll.


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What--I flatter myself that you may be wondering--has happened to the UberMaus?

Well, dear reader, I have become ever more deeply embroiled in the various forms of existential horror of a PhD program. Here are some things that I have written about it.

Chapter One: AnimadversionsBeing a grad student may be bad for my old practice of posting ( Read more... )

It's now past 5 in the morning and I have undoubtedly ruined myself for work, or anything else productive, tomorrow.

The main reason for this is because I discovered, to my chagrin, that the grandissimo-sized "value" meal at McDonald's now comes with a beverage the size of an oil drum. I celebrated my safe return home -- noteworthy because this ( Read more... )

Lunar Goat: You know my weird roomie?
the UberMaus: Well?
Lunar Goat: Some of us were talking in the room and she just starts knocking on the wall. The louder we talk, the harder she pounds, and vice versa. Instead of talking like a normal person, she beats on the wall. She never stops moving and she is always picking at her head and pulling things ( Read more... )

Given the fact that through most of Western history, much of the greatest art was produced by and for the Church, I find it amusing that Christianity, as currently practiced, is so inexplicably eager to borrow its sacred iconography from the dismal cesspools of mass-produced "culture." I have a sick fascination with these tawdry and/or vulgar ( Read more... )