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Four Stories From Today's New York Times

Posted on November 04, 2008 at 08:03 AM

Who has a better sense of humor: liberals or conservatives?
Obama will not answer whether he likes boxers or briefs (with good reason)
While the life of novelist Carolyn Chute is by no means typical of people who live in northern New England, reading this profile reminded me a little bit of home
A collection of classic disease-warning posters

Also, this story wasn't in the NYT, but Obama won in Dixville Notch and Hart's Location, NH. Residents of these two tiny towns have historically voted at midnight and closed polls early. This is the first time they've voted for a democrat since 1968.

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New 23/6 Piece: The Grapes of Wrath II

Posted on September 26, 2008 at 07:40 AM

Back-Cover Book Description for The Grapes of Wrath II: Raisin' Hell

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Hygiene for the Worker

Posted on August 04, 2008 at 04:26 PM

book cover

One of my best used-book finds ever was a copy of 1912's Hygiene for the Worker, a book published to help young men and women become happy, healthy, and unquestioning factory-laborers. The book is wonderful in so many ways. The illustrations are simultaneously delightful and creepy, the language is charmingly outdated, and the lessons in the book attempt to create a race of scrubbed-clean, milk-drinking super employees who spend their vacations at home "laying up a greater store of health and energy than the young people who come back tired and weary from having too good a time at the mountains and other regular summer resorts."

test each nostril

I love Hygiene for the Worker a lot, and thus I was pleased to recently discover that it has been digitized by Google Books. I highly recommend taking a skim through this hilariously outdated, yet sometimes disturbingly pertinent book.

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New 23/6 Piece: The Libertarian Candidate for Me

Posted on July 07, 2008 at 12:25 PM

Yup.

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Finally! A Juice for Stay-at-Home Wives.

Posted on May 26, 2008 at 02:12 PM

HomeMaker Orange Juice

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Dumping Ground of Links

Posted on May 13, 2008 at 07:29 AM

A blog that switches the heads of kids and dads. Amazing. [Via Boing Boing]

How to Succeed in the Music Biz, by Erykah Badu. [TSOYA]

How to Eat a Cupcake. Moreover, how to cook one. The strawberry buttercream frosting recipe is incredible.

Thomas Doyle's Miniature Art. [Via CRAFT]

Cat Clowns. [From Nat]

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Hypothetical IM Conversation Between the Writers' Guild and AMPTP

Posted on February 16, 2008 at 06:14 PM

I found this quite amusing.

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Everything's Coming Up Favreau!

Posted on October 31, 2007 at 05:55 AM

Some good things going on:

My piece "Selections From an Anti-Duck Propaganda Pamphlet" is up on The Big Jewel today.
Fellow Philadelphia comedy person Don Montrey wrote a nice post about me/Meg and Rob on his blog, Die Actor Die. Which, incidentally, is an excellent blog that you should be reading.
We've got a number of Meg and Rob shows coming up in Philadelphia, including November 19 at Die Actor Die, November 28 at Bedtime Stories, and hosting Puppet Karaoke on December 20. I'll post more information on all of these shows soon.

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