I ran in to a hiccup at bedtime. It wasn’t actually the first time I’ve run into this particular hiccup, but it got me thinking. Almost e...

Soundtrack: hit play and start reading. Tom Waits: "Pony" Tom Waits sings about home like a man who's been lost a long time....

Hey readers. I want to write about something on my blog, but in order to be fair, I need to get a point of view from a few readers. Specif...

A blogger whose blog I follow recently celebrated her 38th birthday (congrats), and dropped this hilarious line: And if one more 23-year-...

I found this on Foreign/er , a random find from the Korean blog list, and found it very interesting to watch. them cultural lines just keep ...

OK now. For your soundtrack needs, hit play on the clip below, and start reading. Mahna Mahna, by The Muppets (1976 version) I'm heading...

soundtrack: hit play and start reading. Scroll down. Please. Seriously -- the images with the song are . . . not related. But "Send ...

This one got the most votes so far, so I'll start here. When I heard the news about the Sungnyemun Gate burning down in Seoul, one of th...

Whoa. That's weird. After writing in my last post about why people do these kinds of destructive actions, I came into the staff room a...

You can read about it at The Marmot Hole , so I won't reprint the whole thing here, but basically, they caught the guy who torched ...

This is the second part of a two-part post. Please read the first part first, here. Rilke again, 'cause dammit, he deserves to be read...

Without advent, Christmas arrives through the side door, and startles me while I'm brushing my teeth for bed. With advent, it enters wi...

When people get their news from the internet, with its 24 hour coverage, things get silly, with journalists clamouring for column inches on ...