A Salute to the Men Who Make this Great Day Possible — Hey guys, so the plan is the mothers will go hiking while we make them dinner. Listen I bought a $100 bottle of wine especially for this event which we can drink while they are hiking. With regard to the menu, I know steak is our favorite dudes but our…

There is more to love’s geometry than a heart on Valentine’s. Have you heard about the love rectangle among New York City police officers that was so heated the officers’ guns were all confiscated by their superior officer? A love rectangle is quite unusual. It got me to thinking about…

Go on Wordle strike today! — I saw this in my twitter feed. Yup, we’re going on Wordle strike today. Do NOT, I repeat, DO NOT cross the picket line. No Worlde today. Unless you’re a scab. You’re not a lousy scab are you? You support unions, don’t you? Don’t sneak off somewhere and do your…

Plans switch to four letter word format in near future — Get ready for some four-letter word action, folks. Wordle has officially run out of five-letter words, after less than a year of running the hugely popular quiz game. “We didn’t really expect this to happen,” said NY Times quiz editor Johnny Applesauce. “We thought there was an infinite number of…

And does it matter? — I teach at a Los Angeles university. For my creative writing class I announced that we were going to all publish our writing in our own publication on Medium. (You can see it here!) “What’s Medium?” was the universal response. I notified the administration and the other faculty about my…

And will be revealed in the last sentence of this article to be NOT from an alien civilization — But for the bulk of this article, you may remain in wide-eyed hope and awe and the possibility that at long last we have been contacted by ET. We thought for a while there that ET didn’t like us. That made us sad. But hooray! For the two minutes of…

Trump was hoarding them this whole time! — The recently released FBI affidavit is redacted in black magic marker, but the Haven was able to hold it up to a light and read some of the passages. According to the document, an unnamed witness claimed Trump has been hoarding Hillary Clinton’s emails in a special box inside his…

If the Second Civil War is coming then we need to be prepared — Hello, Silverlake neighbors. My name is Curtis, and this is Deborah doing the signing. Thanks, Deborah. And welcome, everyone. None of you probably ever thought that would be joining a citizen’s militia group. I know I never did. I thought I spend my entire life drinking Intelligentsia coffee, getting tattoos…

I didn’t know what hospice was. I thought it was like a creamy torium or something. — “Creamy torium, you knucklehead! You mean crematorium?” “Is that a place where they put dead bodies in a stove and then forget to set a timer and they burn them by mistake, like Mom does sometimes when she is baking cookies but she takes one too many of her Mom…