Archive for December, 2008

Anyone who has wielded a Sharpie pen at a frat party and used the skin of an unconscious brother as the canvas knows that these versatile little pens aren’t just for marking your CD mixes anymore.
But Charlie Kratzer of Lexington, KY has taken the instrument to a whole new level, drawing an intricate Sharpie mural [...]


I have to hope that all the warm and sentimental images of Christmas are true. That inside, houses really are filled with children elated to see that Santa ate the cookies. Where there are crazy piles of shredded wrapping paper and families gather around a warm fire to share home-baked cookies and stories.
Because from the [...]


Remember when you were at the mercy of whatever was on TV during the holidays, so you had to settle into the smelly couch in the basement with a Diet Coke and watch a heaping dose of simplified moralistic “special holiday programming” until your eyes burned?
Yeah, we miss those days, too.
Evidently, so does Jeffery Bennett, [...]


We took our daughter out to eat the other night for her birthday, and this was the coaster that was placed under our giant 26-ounce mug. The words were so poetic, so loquacious, that we thought them necessary to share. (A few of them, we are convinced, are entirely made up. “Stanglmair?” Really?)
This “wine snob” [...]