Over at the New York Times, prominent linguists John McWhorter and Geoffrey Nunberg discuss the sudden ubiquity of the word “vajayjay”. I actually first heard it from Candace, though she says it’s too popular now, especially because it reminds her of Oprah Winfrey. I agree; no one wants to think about Oprah’s vajayjay. Except Gayle [...]

Peter: I’m reading the lead singer of Luna’s account of his affair with his bassist and dissolution of his marriage. You’ll never guess who the bassist is. It’s Jem, from Jem and the Holograms — or, at least, it’s the woman who voiced her. I wonder if she ever announced “It’s showtime, Synergy!” before Luna [...]

I was combing through drafts of unpublished blog posts, and I ran across an abortive one that was to have been sort of a sidebar to some commentary notes Jay Pinkerton and I planned to write if we ever got around to posting online our Fastman comics that we wrote for Cracked back when he [...]

I read when I was a kid that it takes seven minutes to get to sleep. I read too much as a kid. After that, my falling-asleep process always went like this.
11:30 p.m. If I start falling asleep right now, I can be asleep by 11:37. That means that if I set my alarm for [...]

I told Sofi to send this in to the Consumerist, and she did!
(On a related note, I got a cheque today in a 9.5″ x 12.5″ cardboard FedEx envelope, which seems a little oversized, but I’m just happy to have it.)

Well, it’s just a good thing I wasn’t doing what some single men might be doing in front of their computers at 1:30 a.m.
I was playing a game of The Sims 2, trying in vain to make two dogs mate (so, I suppose in a technical sense, I actually sort of was watching bestiality pornography), [...]

“If you show up with a bun in the oven, you’re in trouble. I’ll punch you in the oven!”
“I suppose there’s a way to approach women on the street that isn’t creepy. I think Ted Bundy had it right with his routine where he wore a fake cast and asked girls to help him load [...]

I should have posted this a week ago. But what’s the difference? I was busy and these people are still dead.
Boris Yeltsin
Little-known fact about former Russian president Boris Yeltsin: He was missing the thumb and index finger of his left hand owing to a childhood mishap while disassembling a grenade stolen from a Red Army [...]

I should introduce you to my friend Erin. She’s the one who got hit in the head with a beer bottle a while back. At least, I thought it was a beer bottle. It turns out it was a whiskey bottle, which is worse. A beer bottle smashes. A whiskey bottle just goes clunk and [...]

I’m not one to boast,* but I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that my old friend Mike “The Math Librarian” Martelle has started a Facebook group called Is Reed Richards as smart as Peter Lynn? I guess it’s not boasting to mention this. After all, the answer could very well be “No” with the [...]