Going radio silent for the next week.I've been kidnapped and shipped off to the wilds of Coastal America where I'll be forced to drink wine, eat crab and spend time with people I love in a house that overlooks the sea.Damnit.

Inktopia brought this guy to my attention and now I keep seeing him all over the place.How about you guys? Does he haunt your dreams, too?He is the face of my madness. My obsession.

"...full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."Idiocy truly is the gift that keeps on giving. I wish it wouldn't, but it simply doesn't know how.Today's collection is of statements that at face (almost) sound halfway decent, but disintegrate into...

The Girlfriend and I have taken to sending out cookies and candies for Christmas/Chanukah.Each year we pick six or seven recipes, bake several batches apiece and ship them out to friends and loved ones. It's a good system: we get to bake, we get to...

My students strove, really strove, to dive deep with their papers, to say something truly profound about the effect ancient literature has on us as modern readers. Sometimes it worked. Sometimes it didn't.Have a little taste.After all, if the Odyssey...