Lemurian Congress

"Oh the rent--the rent! What about my career !" (It's by William Crawford Galbraith, who did a lot of artwork for The New York...

My mother told me horror stories about cleaning the kitchen window yesterday, and I saw her pile of blackened paper towels, but it wasn'...

It took only two hours for seven of us to move everything. I hate making other people deal with my own personal shortcomings -- pack-ratting...

Last week I told my mother that I only had about another three hours of packing to do. After an entire week of near-constant packing, I just...

If you've been reading this blog today, you've been wondering what yo-yos have to do with feces . I myself wasn't aware of any ...

You know what they say..."Poopy things come in threes!" Or at least they SHOULD say that, because it's certainly true this wee...

The articles in the 1929 New Yorker continue to use the stock market crash as fodder for jokes and insults, but now the advertisers are tr...

In the November 23, 1929 issue of The New Yorker, a helpful reader (Mary Rose Himler) submits a timely list of popular yo-yo tricks: The Moa...

During the latter months of 1929, The New Yorker ran a continuing series called "A Voyage to Purilia." Written by Elmer Rice -- a...

Not long ago I read every single John Barth book in chronological order, and I didn't like what I discovered. My basic conclusion was th...