The Cacophony Society: Best Pranksters Ever?
“All-seeing-eye” by Winston Smith, from Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society Pop quiz: What do Burning Man, Fight Club, flash mobs, urban exploring, art cars and the Billboard Liberation...
View ArticleExcerpt from Best-selling YA Author Catherynne Valente: The Boy Who Lost...
My latest obsession: Catherynne M. Valente Catherynne M. Valente Is Today’s Lewis Carroll Catherynne M. Valente is the next Lewis Carroll. Let me explain. Over the years there have been endless...
View ArticleRemembering the Armenian Genocide: an Interview with Dana Walrath
An Armenian family receiving food relief, 1915 (source: Wikimedia) In 1914, the Ottoman Empire had more than 2 million people. Less than ten years later, their population was reduced to less than...
View ArticleHappy Towel Day, You Hoopy Froods
Grab this image and use it on your own site to help promote Towel Day. Today is Towel Day, the day we celebrate the works of Douglas Adams. Adams is best known for the The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the...
View ArticlePushcart Prize 2015: “Like Discovering Yet One More Galaxy”
Yours truly reading from my first Pushcart Prize Anthology Winners have just been announced for one of my favorite prizes, the Pushcart Prize. I’m not the only one, Publisher’s Weekly named it “among...
View ArticleDonut Day! Win The Donut Book
Now that’s a lot of donuts, Dolly! [Source]Did you know that in the US today is National Donut Day? I know what you’re thinking, this is probably one of those silly holidays made up in the last few...
View ArticlePledged: the Secret Life of Sororities
Sororities, by their very design as secret institutions, drive speculation and gossip about what happens behind their closed doors. Supposedly the devotion to volunteering and respectability that our...
View ArticleAn Art Journal to Capture Your Life’s Journey
Back in my day, when we had to walk forty miles buck naked through the snow to get to school, journaling was a simple thing. There were no fancy-pants trinkets or tags in fancy fonts. There was little...
View ArticleThe Three Investigators Vintage Mystery Books
From Three Investigators #7, The Mystery of the Fiery Eye Of all the mystery books I read as a kid the series I remember most is The Alfred Hitchcock Mystery series, The Three investigators. Alfred...
View ArticleThe Best Books for New College Grads
There’s been a lot of hoopla around here about “back to school” but not every college student is new to campus. Just as the new freshmen arrive yearly there’s a whole new batch of graduates ready...
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