The Oxford Electric Bell Has Been Ringing For Over 175 Years
We’re ringing in the new year (as well as marking National Ring a Bell Day) with the story of a bell that’s been ringing year in and year out for almost two centuries.
Kids In Canada Went On Strike Over The Price Of Candy Bars
Today in 1947, the start of a big moment in the history of sweets: kids in Canada protested a hike in chocolate bar prices with what would eventually become known as the Candy Strike.
I Review The Body Electric
It's the 200th birthday of Walt Whitman, the poet best known for his landmark work Leaves of Grass... and the guy who anonymously wrote glowing reviews of his own writing in the newspapers.
The greatest Mr. T Haiku ever written
T walks into room/Suckas and fools are pitied/Jibba jabba stops
Spam Poetry Reading #1
Those nefarious bandwidth thieves know that it will take more than a simple promise of "p*a*r*i*s" to get our attention. Thus, they send us what appears to be completely incomprehensible poetry.