The Flogsta Scream: Creepy and bizarre but I kind of love it.
Every night at 10:00 PM, the "Flogsta scream" can be heard in Flogsta, a neighborhood in the western outskirts of the Swedish city of Uppsala. At precisely this time, students…
Sorry, kid. Easy Bake Ovens are pink for good reason.
Around Christmas, a little girl became a momentary Internet sensation after appealing to Hasbro to make an Easy Bake Oven in a color other than pink or purple. Her brother…
The epilogue
A reader sent this to me today. It’s a photograph of the epilogue of MEMOIRS OF AN IMAGINARY FRIEND, which creates quite a stir amongst many readers. I love it.…
My son is not a USB device
I do a lot of writing with my infant son on my lap. Yesterday he was chewing on the cord that connects my phone to the laptop. Unbeknownst to me,…
So I guess there’s no practical use for the word then…
Thanks to Twitter, I have been informed that to “decimate” does not mean to obliterate or wipe out. It means to destroy one-tenth of something. Great. There have been untold…
I might’ve married this guy if given the chance
It’s always slightly annoying when a guy delivers a toast or a wedding speech that is impossible to top, but in this case, I’ll allow it. I don’t watch many…
Lessons and observations from a week of The Clowns.
This evening we will meet to discuss the future of The Clowns, the rock opera that my co-writer and I have spent the last five years writing. With two weeks…
This is why I hate leaving for work.
These are the last images I see before leaving for work each day. As much as I love my job, the walk to the car is a long, painful one…
The rebels haven’t gone anywhere. They just suck now.
I tend to be a person who resists conformity and rejects tradition in favor of personal preference and a desperate attempt to preserve individuality and perhaps even enhance it. In…
