I make no apologies for the esoteric, not to say peculiar, nature of the posts on this site. To the extent that it’s funny to anyone at all, I expect that my old friends get the most out of it, though even they probably think I’m a few nerds short of a sci-fi convention, so [...]

Out of the Rolling Stone 100 Best Singles of 2008, I recognize precisely 4 titles.
See if you can guess which four. Here are some hints: two I only know because their videos went viral, one I know because of a minor controversy, and the other is just so ubiquitous that even I couldn’t avoid it [...]

By Lord Edmund Bryll, inventor of Brylcreem
As regards this time of year, which you should not fail to note is of a festive nature, owing to the impending occurance of the Christmas holiday celebrating the birth of our Lord and Saviour, those of us of higher, not to say superior, breeding turn our thoughts to [...]

Clever video.

by Ingvar Jævel, foreign exchange student from Kongsvinger, Norway
Festive greetings to you all! It is I, Ingvar! From Norway!
Since I am having Christmas in America this year I decide to shop like Americans! In Norway we give pickled fishes for gifts! Even we Norwegians think that is disgusting!
So I went to a “retail park” today! [...]

Been busy. Hope to post more soon, but in the meantime here’s a quick summary of current events ’round here:

Lord Edmund Bryll has finally been allowed back into the bedroom. Or, as he put it in an excruciatingly long e-mail to me: “I find myself in the altogether pleasant, not to say triumphant, position of [...]

Look! The Oilers are all lit up like a Christmas tree!

by Ingvar Jævel, foreign exchange student from Kongsvinger, Norway
Hello again to you all! It is I! Ingvar! From Norway!
Once again I am writing to you from the beautiful Land of the Braves and Home of Mr. Freeze! America! How I love this place and its trusting people and easily distracted watchmen!
Yesterday was Sunday! My I-don’t-have-to-run-day! [...]

But probably not.