Leonard plays for a sports team. Although it seems unlikely with this ragtag band of misfits, the team makes it to the big game. At a crucial moment, he blows a big play. Leonard dresses in drag to gain the trust of a woman he wants to date. Absolutely no …
Welcome to Fun Camp! By now you’ve been shown to the communal Squee Cabins and been assigned a bed shaped like a race car, rocket ship or cartoon animal, and you’ve probably asked yourself: what am I doing here? You’re here because someone very important in your life — a …
BORN. To Janet Corbett, 31, a convenience store clerk in Puyallup, WA, and Satanachia, 6008, Grand General of the Infernal Spirits, a man-child who shall be named “Enoch”. The father came to the mother on the moon of the sixth day of the sixth month at the sixth hour in …
“Hey, you feel like going down to Martha’s Vineyard for the Memorial Day weekend?” “Sure! Oh, that’ll be nice. A beach trip! And we can see my sister. Do you want me to book a flight tomorrow?” “Nah. We’ll just use the transporter.” “Oh, Henry.” “What?” “I don’t know why …
SALES INCREASE UNDERPERFORMS The Household Sundries division reported an all-time high 52% increase in sales this quarter, with strong showings in the cookware and cleaning supplies sectors leading a late-period surge that contributed to the record-setting total. Management notes, however, that its goal for the quarter was a 75% sales …
“Evenin’, Palladius.” “Evenin’, Kevin.” “What can I get for ye this sunny day?” “Wusky, my dear.” “The Jameson, I assume?” “No indeed. Give me the Glenlivet.” “Palladius! You don’t say so.” “I just can’t take it anymore, Kevin. Not another gory day of it. Look at them all, out there …
The Ayn Rand Institute * in conjunction with * The Leonard Peikoff Foundation for Rational Youth Outreach proudly presents: THE 2013 GALTIES (The 15th Annual John Galt Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Objectivism by American Youth) San Diego Airport Hilton – Saturday, August 24th – 8:00 PM – Nominees and guests only …
Hey, there, neighbors! I’m H.I. “Red” Hand, owner and head man in charge of Frederick’s of Rhetoric, and I’m here to tell you: April is the cruellest month, mixing memory and desire — but February is the shortest! And that means that I’ve only got four days left you offer …
People always ask me, “Ruth-Melissa, how did you come to operate the largest chain of Christian-themed pizza-pie parlors in the continental United States?” And I mean always! My neighbors ask me, my friends ask me, my less successful relatives ask me, and you’d better believe that paid undercover operatives of …
Today would have been the 120th birthday of legendary British filmmaker Reginald Sir Coptic Mange. On this momentous occasion I can think of nothing more appropriate than to look back on some of the films that made him one of the titans of the screen. Without further ado, to the …
As part of our ongoing dedication to preserving our nation’s cultural ephemera, LP dot com is pleased to present captions from rejected New Yorker cartoons, 1920-present. “Rodney, for God’s sake, control your Negroes.” “Prepare a standard sodomy clause, Miss Scunthorpe.” “It’s sort of a cook-out, only with horsemeat and machineguns.” “Oh, it …
To follow in the gargantuan footsteps of Barzun’s seminal (not to mention semeinal) work on the significance — and I use the word in its strictest structuralist sense — of the Hostess oeuvre, the immortal From Cupcakes to Chocodiles: The Decade of Difference, seems presumptuous, if not arrogant. And yet, …
7:30PM. Covene third editorial board meeting of the Journal of the Tennessee Alternate History Society. 7:32PM. Announcement of snacks available. Possibility of another snack run later in the evening. Inquiries made about lack of Chee-tos; Senior Editor Johnson assures group that only the hot crunchy Chee-tos were available at the …
Thank you for buying the Small World Guide to British Columbia! Through the years, travel books have continually reinvented themselves in response to a changing audience. Once tailored to an elite, wealthy clientele of high-society travelers, they eventually discovered the tourism-minded middle class and, later, the budget traveler who’s always …
