How to Make Decisions (58)

How to Make Decisions
Issue 58
We welcome your letters, questions and desperate pleas for help in this uncaring world. As always, e-mail WBXylo at Gmail.com. Don’t fret about e-mailing me with puzzle problems; I won’t yell at you.

How to Make Slime
(Source: Weise, Jim Weird Science)
1. Place 1/2 teaspoon of borax into a jar.
2. Add [...]

Dustinland

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People are weird. That’s OK. We aren’t here to judge. We are here to celebrate you and your wackiness. We are here to understand your perversity. We are here to dissect and catalog your perversions and label you, then maybe point and laugh at you. [...]

It’s All Fun and Game Until Valentine’s Day is Here

I love Valentine’s Day. It makes single people suicidal and attached people wish they weren’t so that they could go back to complaining about being single, instead of running around shopping for the perfect useless gift. Being a late bloomer myself I’ve unfortunately (for me, not the guys) spent more Valentine’s Day man-less than I’d [...]

Moodspins Book Review: Lunar Park

Here’s another squirrelly description of the novel writing process:
You render a world, fall into it, and take a prose camera with you.
But enough about that! “Where’s the payoff?” You’re wondering. “Is this guy ever going to do anything but yammer about writing novels? I don’t write, so that last paragraph is [...]

Dustinland

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Donating your organs is totally rad! Donating your whole body, well, that takes a little more thought. No one really knows where you go when you die, but if I actually thought there was the possibility of some über-hot grad student staring at the fine musculature of my buttocks, [...]

How to Make Decisions (57)

How to Make Decisions
Issue 57
We welcome your letters, questions and desperate pleas for help in this uncaring world. As always, e-mail WBXylo at Gmail.com. Don’t fret about e-mailing me with puzzle problems; I won’t yell at you.

How to Make a Manhattan
Mix 6 parts rye (3 oz.) with 2 parts sweet vermouth (1 [...]

Maybe the Shaman is Herman Hesse, Maybe Bret Ellis

First, this week, a link. I love it, so I won’t say anything at all about it—save, perhaps, “There is a light that never goes out.” Here ‘tis.
Maybe I’ll say one more thing. MFA dropouts of the world unite.
Writing can’t be taught. Form can be studied, and discussed. Specificity [...]

The Yeti Rants: Is This What the People Asked For?

“The American people spoke out for a return to civility to the Capitol in Washington and how Congress conducts its work, and Democrats pledge civility and bipartisanship in the conduct of the work here, and we pledge partnerships with the Republicans in Congress and the president, not partisanship” – Nancy Pelosi
That’s the cry that [...]

How To Make Decisions (56)

How to Make Decisions
Issue 56
We welcome your letters, questions and desperate pleas for help in this uncaring world. As always, e-mail WBXylo at Gmail.com. Don’t fret about e-mailing me with puzzle problems; I won’t yell at you.

An Important Message for Valentine’s Day
If a woman tells you that Valentine’s day is a made-up Hallmark [...]

Senator Al Franken?

No joke, as his Air America radio show came to an end, comedian Al Franken announced his intention to run for the Minnesota seat on the U.S. Senate. You can read the full transcript of his announcement here. This is quite the interesting story, which we will no doubt have more on once [...]