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+ Whatever Works + [Originally published Wednesday, July 13, 2005 ] Woody's Sketches for His Next Four Pictures Project One Working [...] Academy snubbing. Consider cutting the subplot involving Kierkegaard. * * * Project Three Working Title: Inferio

+ Text Messages Sent Between Harriet Tubman, a.k.a. Moses, and Leon Wilkes, a Running-Away Slave + HT: where r u? LW: where r U? HT: u hav 2 b able 2 keep up no matter what 4 this 2 work. LW: [...] California, where he secretly leads a double life: during the day, he mingles with aspiring Nobel laureates, masquerading as a pos

+ Asshole High School Reporter Kristie MacDougal Buries the Lead + Becky Thelen Lands Lead Role in Competition Production of Grease By Kristie MacDougal A FTER weeks of [...] in 1941, he and nearly a quarter of his male classmates joined the army the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Resident Janet Wi

+ John Irving Clarifies the DTV Transition + John Irving is the author of The Cider House Rules , The World According to Garp , A Prayer for Owen Meany , and The [...] coming-of-age narratives. One is of a young set of rabbit ears that is captain of the elite school's wrestling team and carrie

+ Dan Brown's Angel Code and Daemons + C H A P T E R   1 Henry Ford's schematics for the Model T, circa 1908. R enowned car engineer [...] the anxiety he felt, he carved (Carve! Carve!) a wooden statue, on the back of which he emblazoned an ancient sign for virility that

+ Insatiable Decalogue + DRAMA: A college student with an insatiable lust for murder sublimates his sociopath side by becoming an [...] an insatiable lust for murder rediscovers his lost love of bug extermination when a cockroach infestation breaks out in the prison.

+ The Afghanistan Government's Economic Stimulus Plan + Tax Breaks If you make more than 50 chickens per year, you get a three-chicken refund. If you make fewer than 10 [...] attends graduate school and publishes work in newspapers, magazines, and McSweeney's . He has only been convicted of treason twice.

+ Beating a Dead Horse (Triple Crown Equine Nomenclature) +     Suggested Names for Racehorses Expected to Have Undistinguished Careers Ω Average at [...] Ω New Horse Smell Ω This Is Not Happening Ω Win One For Judas Ω Suicide Watch

+ How I Unwind + A fter a long day, I like to pour myself a tall, cool glass of iced tea. I'll sit on the porch swing and gaze at the [...] coroner would remark. Everyone would laugh ruefully. The pasture is truly beautiful. I'd like to marry it so it can have my c

+ Wallace Stevens v. My Grandfather + My grandfather’s correspondence contesting an erroneous charge with Wallace Stevens, Vice President of the Hartford Insurance [...] the ribcages of giraffes Very Truly Yours, Wallace Stevens Vice President Ha Ha Hartford Company of Insurance

+ The Internal Monologue of Someone Looking for Waldo + N othing like Waldo, Cave man, Sort of Waldo, Nothing like Waldo, Nothing like Waldo, Mass amount of people [...] from the University of Clemson. He spends his time searching for work and expecting answers to the questions he poses to his dog.

+ Friday Doorbuster Specials at the Dollar Store! + Trevor Macomber is a corporate writer from Connecticut—and yes, that phrase sounds as schmucky to him as it does to you. [...] calling it) at WriteintheKisser.com . He also enjoys pepperoni calzones. So, you know, if you’re not gonna finish that …

+ Things You Can Accomplish Should Have Accomplished Before Conan Takes Over The Tonight Show in 2009 + Almost five years ago, Y.P.R.'s cultural critics extraordinaire Will Layman & Ed Fischer analyzed some " Things You Can [...] ] step five : Procreate Take the whole marriage-thing out for a test run first, sure, but then get down to business. Live

+ Online Reviews of Really Confusing's, Neighborhood Bar and Grill + "The food was ... good?" * * * "I've never not understood a restaurant before." * * * "We just wanted to take [...] a djinn, who beckoned me with promises of gold and jewels hidden under the floorboards." * * * "The shrimp quesadillas were

+ Memorial Day Mania Redux + Reprinting May 2003's feature. ...