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Et tu, New Yorker?

I was reading a this story about MSG when I came across the following: Despite MSG’s image makeover, I’ve found + more

Miscellany

Researchers estimate that 90 percent of medieval manuscripts have been lost completely. Florence Hazrat asks the important questions: Are prescribed + more

Old Man Yells at Cloud

This xkcd comic—from 2010, mind you—remains true today: I mean, see for yourself: exhibit A, exhibit B, exhibit C, exhibit + more

Quote of the Millennium

I’ve been reading through The Ladder of Divine Ascent by Saint John Climacus, and this paragraph, from the chapter “Step + more

Happy Birthday, Prince of Darkness

Miles Davis—arguably the most innovative jazz musician of all time—would have been 96 today. The very first jazz record I + more

The Dangers of Geek Chic

Shot: “Man is probably not a machine, but he behaves as such in a situation where the machines impose his + more

Quote of the Day

“I believe that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless + more

The Truth Is Out There

Disappointing news from Congress’s first public hearing on unidentified flying objects since 1966: While UFOs (or, rather, UAP, for unidentified + more

Things I Wish I’d Written, Part 3,481

How’s this for an opening paragraph? I am staring at about a dozen, stiff, eight-foot high, orange-red penises, carved from + more

Miscellany

Birthday-shopping for a child you hate? The Department of Homeland Security has you covered. “Institutions like the Ivies,” writes B.D. + more

When a Tree Falls in the Forest

Over at Smithsonian magazine, Ellen Ruppel Shell waxes eloquently about The Tree—a 500-year-old, 100-foot-tall mahogany salvaged from a remote forest + more

Going Down the Rabbit Hole-in-One

Apparently, hole-in-one insurance is a thing. As is insuring prizes for all manner of promotional events, like, say, guessing the + more

And…We’re Back

It’s been a minute, as the kids say. I thought it might be a good idea to not post anything + more

BREAKING NEWS

Ordinarily, I don’t post anything on Fridays. But my source in Cambodia just sent my this story, which, for men + more

“I was just blouse…browsing.”

Not sure about the somewhat, um…provocative photo accompanying this story, but there’s a lot of truth in what John Sturgis + more

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