Actually, while I was at work the other day, their Mom moved them to an undisclosed location, which I thought at first was under the floorboards beneath the sink, but that turned out to be a different litter. (Please don’t ask.) Today I managed to track them down to the closet in the guest bedroom, [...]

8 Then there wuz sheep-doods in teh field, an they wuz watchin teh sheep in teh dark. Iz vry vry boring. srsly.9 An suddenly, visible angel! An glory! O noez!!10 But teh angel sed, “is ok, you can has gud news for all teh doodz!11 Todai in da city ov David, you can has sayvur! [...]

Friday morning our cat Retard finally gave birth. She’s just under a year old herself and became pregnant during what was obviously overlong procrastination on my part. Yes, this is Tennessee, and relatives are suspected. I have a closet full of books, packed in boxes from floor to ceiling, and on the topmost furtherest corner [...]

Not sure where Grad Student Madness found the illustration above, but Miss Cellania points to this site (“All Amateur Seating!”), and includes the following video:

This was the most popular video in our office last week.

According to Christopher Smart’s entry in Wikipedia — which notes, by the way, that it uses text from the 11th edition of the Britannica, now in the public domain — Smart had begun showing symptoms of mental illness by 1751. “Smart was wont to accost passers-by in St James’ Park and demand that they kneel [...]

In the late 1970s while I was a graduate student at Columbia and living on the Upper West Side, I helped organize our block association on 101st Street. The invitations for our first meeting went out with my name listed as one of the hosts, and that night I stood on the stoop of Annette’s [...]