Niles from Frasier Takes Acid on an Overnight Spelunking Trip with Deebo from Friday and Reënacts Plato’s The Cave

by Brian Champlin

My friend, we are in a cave. A very deep and profound darkness is all we can see.
Sounds good, bitch. I’ll bring the ladies.

Arrrrrtwork

Behold “Three Jokes about Pirates,” a short piece of humor writing, and a digital painting, and a short film, sort of, via arrrrt.com’s artPad, by Dennis DiClaudio, (who really ought to get the lead out). (Viewing tip: Set the…

Hamlet by P. G. Wodehouse

by Jaime J. Weinman

“A Mr. Hamlet to see you, sir,” said Jeeves, having floated into the room as noiselessly as a fakir popping up in the middle of some sort of ritual pillow fight in the Far East. Hammy’s an old University…

Andrei Codrescu, exquisite corpse

Y.P.R. 1. Hey, what’s up? A.C. Nothing as far as I can see, but that’s bound to change as soon as they reverse my mood. Mr. Codrescu is a poet, novelist, an essayist, a screenwriter, a columnist for N.P.R., and…

Hills Like Stuffed Tigers: Calvin Discovers Hemingway

by Russell Bradbury-Carlin

I am on the hunt. My hands feel gritty against the stock of my rifle. Sweat and dirt have tightened my grip. I turn to my faithful friend, Hobbes. “Do you have the scent of the prey?” “What prey?”…

Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink!

Some spur-of-the-moment, off-the-cuff, split-second, ad-lib snap judgments regarding Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink: The Power of Winking without Blinking.