Simon Visits The Year 1843 in Architecture
I hit ‘random article’ on Wikipedia and then rant about whatever I see. This week: the year 1843 in architecture. Architects are assholes. My evidence for this comes entirely from literary characters...
View ArticleAuthors That Would Make Bad Writing Infinitely Better
As a manipulator of the English language myself, I hold several beliefs dear to my heart. They are as follows: 1) If you are over the age of 12 and still cannot successfully distinguish when words...
View Article5 Special Editions of Monopoly That Would Never Sell
Monopoly: World Religions Edition Since almost all pieces end up in Jerusalem anyway, the game should work, right? Wrong. The first...
View ArticleA line-by-line analysis of Mickey Avalon’s “My Dick”
My dick cost a late night fee Your dick got the HIV Beginning his song with a bang, Avalon wastes no time in getting to the heart of social issues. He first promotes his member, pointing out that...
View ArticleA Sonnet for the Evanston City Council
Shall I compare thee to a bag of dicks? Thou art more floppy; tougher to inflate: Rough winds do shake the flaccid shafts like sticks, And just one bag hath all too light a weight: Sometime too short a...
View Article5 Spectacularly Awful Sci–Fi/ Fantasy Character Names
Science fiction and fantasy are interesting genres in that they encourage narratives free from association with real–world logic, philosophy, or science. Pretty much anything goes in the land of...
View ArticleOn Tolkien, War and Morality
I logged on to Facebook this morning to discover that today marks the 122nd anniversary of the birth of J.R.R. Tolkien. I don’t want to call it his “birthday,” seeing as he passed away many years ago,...
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