"Audience Participation Cues for the My Dinner with Andre Midnight Screening."

When those "Rocky Horror" events leave you feeling empty and questioning your very existence, it's time to move on to the Andr...

"Can I give it to my monkey?"

This is the essence of what Andrew Sullivan presents under the heading "Hathos Alert."

"And if the elevator tries to bring you down/Go crazy (Punch a higher floor!)."

Prince lyric , which just occurred to me in the context of the feminist-in-the-elevator-at-the-atheist-convention incident . Prince was tell...

"How Bad Are Bananas?"

"The Carbon Footprint of Everything." Oh, the carbon footprint. .. What a diverse range of possibilities ran through my head when ...

A Meadhouse counterscape.

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Deflated Canadian art-prank on Texas.

Canadian artist Cesar Saez proposed to build at 300-meter banana that would float in the air... in Texas . He needed over a million dollars...

"Brave New World" or "1984" — "Which template would win"?

We used to wonder, Margaret Atwood writes. During the cold war, Nineteen Eighty-Four seemed to have the edge. But when the Berlin Wall fell ...

"If I do discriminate, it's that I only want healthy, intelligent people."

If you accept a woman choosing her sperm donor, and if you accept a woman choosing which embryo left over from someone else's fertility ...

The contrast between “Brave New World” and “1984,” the nature of Ophelia’s madness in “Hamlet,” and the theme of colonialism in "Lord Jim."

I love the hilarious obviousness of the paper topics chosen to test those on-line paper-writing services. Guess what? The papers they write...

Heavenly blue, crimson rambler and pearly gates...

The retro-hippies of today are hitting the morning glory seeds . Electrical banana is bound to be the very next phase.

"Taking a shower, washing your hair, drinking cold water, opening the window, watching television and even reading a book."

Things not to do after having a baby. For my part, I refused to be a prisoner to tradition and blithely ignored these taboos. And Dong Ayi d...

"'I'm sorry, I was hungry' has become a culturally acceptable way to apologize for brusque behavior."

Oh, yeah? Or is this just another topic the NYT editors discovered by reading blogs and whipped into an article that could seem to be about...

Reading about rubber bananas while really very hungry.

Oh, I've been sitting in this café for so long. The large capuccino glass has been empty for .... is it hours? That cookie -- a large co...

Sentence of the Day.

The award goes to David Montgomery of the Washington Post for this juicy mass of info in the form of a sentence: Plump couches, radical boo...

"They also have sex for pleasure but most of the time, it's a way of making peace. They are a bit the hippies of the forest."

Bonobos. It's feeding time at the sanctuary, and with the distribution of papayas, bananas, sugar cane and other delicacies for the 43 ...

Trying to control what the next Justice will have to say.

Todd Purdum has this piece in the NYT about the way Supreme Court Justices have disappointed the Presidents who chose them. The classic quo...

The tempting marketplace.

Obesity researchers are using mapmakers to graphically demonstrate that kids walk home from school past lots of places that sell the kind o...

Are we ready to start blogging about the '08 election?

Or are we still too tired of presidential campaign blogging? Well, surely we're at least too tired of John Kerry. But here he is , beggi...

Things that remind me of Pop.

canfield2 Originally uploaded by anna banana . My grandfather -- Pop -- used to call me Anna Banana. I was struck by this photograph I fo...

Dandruff is everywhere!

"A researcher has discovered unexpectedly large amounts of dandruff and other flaking skin, fur, pollen and similar materials in air po...