Like all print music magazines in these troubled times, indie rag Under The Radar wants your advertising money. Well, maybe not your advertising money, unless you own a record label. But they want advertising money. And even with the competition getting thinner every day, UTR still has to find...cre...

THE LEGEND OF THE LOUISIANA SWAMP WOOKIE At Honey Island Swamp in Louisiana Sometimes called a "Wookie" The Honey Island Swamp Monster has become one of the most well-known swamp stories because of the real or imagined presence of a creature similar to what others have called Bigfoot. Sometimes know...

I was a last-minute edition to the latest edition of SEMJ. I got a chance to give my perspective on how to do well on social news sites like reddit. !!Spoiler!! Make good content. Don't be a jerk. !!End Spoiler!! If you're still interested in reading it, they've provided me with a copy to distribute...

I’ve tinkered around with quite a few poetic forms (the villanelle is my favorite) but I’ve never managed to finish either a sestina or a ghazal. The ghazal is an Arabic form that’s still used often in Iran, Pakistan, and India. The poem is made up of couplets that should be strong...

From The Chicago Tribune's Howard Witt: Highway robbery? Texas police seize black motorists' cash, carsSuit says cops force motorists, largely black, to forfeit cash and cars—or be charged with trumped-up crimesBy Howard Witt Tribune correspondentMarch 10, 2009 TENAHA, Texas— You can drive into ...

This is a bantam white cochin rooster. Isn't he cute? (Photo stolen from TheBigWRanch12)Let's call him Chester, because I can't for the life of me remember the exact name of the bantie white cochin rooster I'm about to tell you......

I usually listen to music while working. I can go without, but I prefer to go with. Working during the day and working at night are completely different activities to me, and require completely different music. Also, working with words as I do, the music I listen to while working must not take my at...

A number of them really, but for the most recent example, okay:See, way back during the Blowjob Wars of '06, when I wrote this post...I was -kidding-, see. (It's an incredibly tedious feminist internecine thing; you wouldn't understand).So, but, yeah, anyway, um.Dear organization entitled "Bash Back...

“Close them down, get them out of business. If they’re dead, they ought to be buried.” -Richard C. Shelby, the senior Republican on the Banking Committee, on ABC’s “This Week” > Thus, the strangely inverted world of bank bailouts continues. Republicans who started the entire l...

Yesterday, in Backdoor Bailouts for Goldman Sachs?, we noted that GS, as well as Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, and Deutsche Bank, were all made whole on their bad bets with AIG. That’s right, what was misleadingly described as systemic risk turned out to be in large part little more than a co...