Annals of Japery

January 25, 2012

Why I Must Charge People Fees for Their Own Art 13

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People don’t want to buy rocking chairs anymore. But the lack of sales doesn’t stop people from making them. As a result, we rocking chair sellers have come up with a solution.

August 25, 2011

Paris, Wikipedia, and My Middle Age Crisis 6

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The crisis goes on like this night and day. It matters little whether I’m on YouTube, watching television, flipping through my wife’s magazines or churning through RSS feeds and Twitter updates, there are always endless amounts of famous, middle-age men to look up.

May 10, 2011

The Dog Massage 3

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I am an old dog, yes, but like to think that I’m open to new tricks.

November 24, 2010

The Hot Stove Report: A Parody 3

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Now that the 2010 season has ended, it’s time to look at the off-season transactions that will shape next year’s division rivalries and pennant races.  Here, then, are a few of baseball’s most notable available free agents.

September 28, 2010

T-Shirts I Have Known 4

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Remembering vanished shirts is a somewhat wistful thing. Each one means so much, yet each will disappear.

September 27, 2010

Bulletin: Interview with Tom McCarthy, General Secretary, INS 8

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This arboreal carnage seemed fitting, however, prior to a meeting with a man who teaches a class on Catastrophe, and who founded the International Necronautical Society, whose mission is to “map, enter, colonise and, eventually, inhabit” the space of death.