"Gepetto-ing" Is The New "Benching"

If you are like me, a lonely artisan in the big city who makes crude wooden toys for a living, then all the modern trappings of dating—the break-up, “ghosting,” “benching,” Tindr, etc.—just don’t seem to cut it anymore.
Here Are All Of The Best Winter Solstice Songs
The Winter Solstice is a time to put brass instruments between your lips and push air through tubes out into the endless void of night. Who hasn’t wandered out into the woods covered in the blood of a fawn to wail on a dented and ancient trombone? If work is too hectic and you don’t get time off to wander around a…
Today Is National Boss Day: Here's How To Do It
Today is the day we celebrate the boss. Your boss. My boss. The Boss. We’ve been doing this holiday since our ancestors were drawing crude circles into the dirt under the harvest moon. We’ve been doing this holiday since wolves were in serious contention for being the next big thing on Earth. Boss Day is a holiday…
The Night The Pope Came To My Apartment
The last time the Pope came to America, there wasn’t nearly as much fanfare as there is now. Today, news outlets across the world are tracking the Pontiff’s every move, reporting his every utterance, and drawing bad pictures of him wearing roller skates in the margins of their notebooks. The last time the Pope came to…
Secret Anatomy: Did you know these things were part of your body and that wishes don't come true?
The body is an amazing factory of squelch noises and dribbling liquids. You can do anything with the right kind of body: bend, reach, kick, fall...anything! But here’s the thing, friend: what in the world are all the bits inside of the body that make it go buzzing around the neighborhood coaxing pies from the skillful…
Fantasy Draft Primer: Whom to Hug and What to Fear
Soon you will bleach your body hair and ascend the steep temple stairs. Soon you will light the fire of your father, and his father. Soon you will hear the whispers come up from the Great Below, sending bits of bone and dried leaves skittering across the echoing banquet hall of Vyrthox, the Once Dead King. Soon you…
Here Are All Of The Best Football Teams
The corn thirsts for harvest. The beans are floating in mid air and there isn’t a cat to be seen for miles. We’ve crested summer’s peak in America and we’re gonna slide down the other side of this sucker in our flesh sleds, enjoying gridiron views the whole way down. Welcome to America. It’s football night forever.
CDRom: The Best Parts of Computers All in One Big List
We use them every single day. Whether we are ordering cartons of oil or filing our malfeasance reports with the ombudsman, computers are everywhere. Used to be you could walk a full mile and never come across a single computer. Now, computers are as ubiquitous as mead, and as commonly used as sledgehammers. I’m sure…



