world weird web category archives

only on facebook

Sunday 22 February 2009 | 13 cookies in the jar

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“seeking a sexual tyrannosaur for a romp in the park”

Saturday 17 January 2009 | 7 cookies in the jar

I am a very career-focused, attractive woman seeking a man who is willing to fulfill my ultimate sexual fantasy. I am an executive with a very successful corporation that keeps me very busy and I sometimes have difficulty finding men who share similar interests to my own in the bedroom. Nothing turns me on more [...]

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hello co-pay

Tuesday 16 December 2008 | 2 cookies in the jar

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gobsmacked again

Tuesday 16 December 2008 | 5 cookies in the jar

Me: [far too late last night, trying, for no reason I can now remember or defend, to explain flarf vs. conceptual poetry to my sleepy companion, as we lay curling our chilly knees together and half-falling asleep, and thus finding myself resorting to the Land O' Lakes butter-maiden model, quod vide super] The Brujo: Yeah, [...]

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ten thousand hours.

Thursday 4 December 2008 | 14 cookies in the jar

In the early 90s, the psychologist K Anders Ericsson and two colleagues set up shop at Berlin’s elite Academy of Music. With the help of the academy’s professors, they divided the school’s violinists into three groups. The first group were the stars, the students with the potential to become world-class soloists. The second were those [...]

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“but make our clothes and fix our hair”

Wednesday 3 December 2008 | 3 cookies in the jar

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top ten reasons why the gays should not be permitted to marry

Tuesday 2 December 2008 | someone left a cookie

Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like polyester, air conditioning, and Splenda. Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people makes you shop for heels. Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even [...]

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and for those even more tied up in internal guilt crocheting than I?

Friday 28 November 2008 | 3 cookies in the jar

The Bureau of Communication is here to save the day (and/or your ass).

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hue & cry

Monday 24 November 2008 | 9 cookies in the jar

This is crazy geeky fun—especially if, like me, you have eighteen THOUSAND things to do/grade/write/read/clean before el Día del Pavo and (basically) the end of the semester, which is barrelling up on me with alarming rapidity.

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all your republican base are belong to us

Friday 7 November 2008 | I like a cookie

My favorite election story, still, as the hours pass and I savor each one. So a canvasser goes to a woman’s door in Washington, Pennsylvania. Knocks. Woman answers. Knocker asks who she’s planning to vote for. She isn’t sure, has to ask her husband who she’s voting for. Husband is off in another room watching [...]

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