The House of Substance

It's a new year in a little bit, and some new things have to be done. It isn't really a lot of fun moderating comments, and doing th...

This was initially a reminder to a friend to do taxes. Cute, right? But the way this one's constructed swapping in text is relatively ...

Yes yes, it's a bad picture. I was drunk.

A long time ago, in a land far far away: For of a truth [Abu al-Husn] had nothing left, after that which he had squandered, but a concubine,...

John Hawkins, Community Organizer: Both jobs were low paying, difficult and generally unpleasant. There was never a time when I said, "...

I posted this a while ago. Time for a repost, as she died Tuesday. It's unjust of course, she was a very happy and sunny person, and ...

PISA results are out, and everyone leaps to condemn whatever they can condemn: Canada has dropped out of the top 10 in international math e...

At the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery: It's about four feet off the ground, you can bend down and stand up in the bottom hole and...

News: 'Fast and Furious 7' delayed after Paul Walker's death Obviously a valuable part of the franchise that should get off my ...

Harlan Ellison, Super Genius:

Compare and contrast:

M. Bouffant led us to Wacko, an Archie McPhee with pretensions. And there was this: Not St. Valerius: Not St. Coronatus: Not...

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Can the apocalypse be willed upon us? Some try. Also they walk me around LA to look for evidence of its coming. Note to the Riddled crew...