Tonight, we’re going to rip it up for youse with some more fresh questions about ass-shakingly interesting things, same as every week. Prizes include a pop-up book of Celebrity Meltdowns*, a guide to weight loss for those of us with an adjustible gastric band*, and just like Sam the Butcher, I’ll be bringing the meat. [...]

Speaking of being a sucker for things (and I was, just six days ago), I cut my teeth on wordplay, and here’s one I’ve always had in mind but thought it was stupid, and now that it’s out there it turns out it wasn’t anywhere near stupididity. Falindromes are failed palindromes. A palindrome is something that [...]

 Adena has come upon some scans of the original versions of the Monopoly cards, before they decided on the whole rich-old-man theme. I’m a sucker for these quick pen-and-ink graphics, and these don’t disappoint.

A Scottish friend of mine sent out this Lateral Thinking Test he got at work. I’ve scanned it (Page 1, Page 2) for your onscreen viewing convenience, as well as the fact that from here I can’t upload a pdf. He said twenty minutes, but you should finish it in about half that. I believe [...]

Turns out Rhino is reissuing deluxe remastered and expanded editions of all the Replacements’ albums, the same way they’ve done for Elvis Costello and some others. Rhino typically does a great job with these packages, and it’s worth noting that they don’t seem to have got all the Mats’ albums done up this way, just [...]

I regret to say that I will not be blogging today, as I am currently learning how to perform an appendectomy on myself without anesthesia right here at my desk, and I suspect it might take all day. Not that my appendix is in any kind of trouble, touch wood, um, well, touch formica, but better [...]