I am the weird friend and I've written you a manual. "Weird" here is literal, a deviation from the statistical norm, not a negative...

I've heard that among the Vikings a kitten was given to a newlywed couple, both in honor of the goddess Frigg and for the practical...

​ I have been lied to about red wine. All of the poets and authors who have put the words "red wine" and "sweet" anywhere near each...

​​​ Jack and I are home from our wild roadtrip across the country, the phrase "wild roadtrip" here meaning "journey through endless...

​ My therapist wants me to begin practicing mindfulness as a way to combat dissociation and obsessions. It's not really new for me -- my...

In the 3.5 version of Dungeons & Dragons, your character became unconscious when they fell to 0 hit points, hit points meaning "health"...

Thanks to autocorrect I've sent messages like "Ninjutsu was another name for Ereshkigal in Assyrian mythology." This mistake has created...

So the classic 1922 silent PSA about the dangers of out-of-country home ownership, Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, is officially...

I pulled down a copy of William Faulkner's 1932 novel while recently in a bookstore. That copy had been well-loved and was consequently...

There are a few things I've learned that I'm prepared to pass on to you all, future captains of the united guinea pig hordes. I hope that...