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Eat The Document
[Editor’s note: This piece is all entirely true. Unlike most of what you see hereabouts, this required and reflects actual research. Show some respect.] Psychoanalysts sometimes speak of the epistemophilic instinct, an unbridled love of learning that grips scholars like fingernails in their backs. Read more >>
List: The Art Gliner Punch Line Machine
Art Gliner, sixty-five, is the namesake of the University of Maryland’s Art Gliner Center for Humor Studies. He is also a classical music deejay on WGMS, in Washington, D.C., where he can sometimes be heard to announce, “This is Art Gliner, your intro-doo-suh for this work by John Phillip Sousa.” Read more >>
I Write Short Books About the Popular Bands of the Day. Here Is My Story. (Episode 1.)
EPISODE ONE: THE DAWNING
When asked to define the essence of his “it” factor, Scott Moffatt, oldest and it-iest member of Canadian supergroup the Moffatts, replied with a knowingness that belied his 16 years.
“I think,” the man-child recently said, “chicks dig the guitar.”