Professor Yeti

Online music magazine Pitchfork instigates a weekend of indie rock in a Chicago park, and the results are surprisingly good.

Getting sick in the supposed prime of one’s life seems vastly unfair.

Rosalyn lovingly explains why the historic San Benito House wins the Best Sandwich award year after year after year.

Some people love him and others fantasize about spending an afternoon hanging out with him.

Five Comic Strips From A Long Time Ago

Krazy Kat
The Tours of Dr. Syntax
Foxy Grandpa
Mutt and Jeff
Hairbreadth Harry

Five Reasons to Quit

Financial incentive
Significant other demands it
Health
Chance to prove will-power
Socially embarrassing to continue

Five Attractive State Quarters

Minnesota (loon, fishermen, lake)
Connecticut (oak tree)
Vermont (maple syrup)
Maine (lighthouse)
Iowa (Grant Wood painting)

Five Ways to Use the Word […]

The venerable professor quickly touches upon sleep schedules, garrulousness, and leather.

Jonathan attempts to exorcise his brush with a phantom called “Multi-Level Marketing.”

There’s a lot of head scratching around the White House . . .

Tonight is a special night . . .

This bi-week we’ll turn to the great architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The excerpt is from a lecture he gave to undergraduates at the University of Princeton in 1930. In the lecture, he discusses how unpleasant he finds the prevailing architectural attitude of the day and in the paragraph below he references some pamphlets that support […]