It was closing in on 2:30 AM and the farewell party that never did materialize was coming to its unremarkable conclusion. I walked out of the palatial 2-story spa villa with her and chose to use the short distance between suite and elevator as a hurried opportunity to say goodbye […]
I guess the logical question I need to ask myself now is, how in the hell did I manage to run 600 miles in 2015 in cotton underwear? The moisture, the chaffing, the horror. Trying to put them on now feels like affixing a burlap sack to my, well, you […]
I missed it in theaters. They didn’t make that mistake. I skipped it on an 8 hour transatlantic flight home from London, skipping it 4 times on board, technically, to listen instead to many downloaded European football podcasts. They weren’t so foolish. You could say, if you were so inclined, […]
On this, the 2nd episode of Julie’s Cooking Show, chef Sofia the 9th whips up the Unicornian specialty Lulump. *Recipe is for entertainment purposes only. Please don’t actually make Lulump. Unless you’re a unicorn, then by all means have at it.
This is shaping up to be quite the week, a week that’ll undoubtedly be filled with smiles, tears, laughter, hugs and maybe a blister or a few cramps. As I write this I’m sitting the Westin hotel just off Beale Street in Memphis. I’m looking out at the morning sky […]
It is with great joy that I introduce a brand new feature here on OWTK, Julie’s Cooking Show. In this debut episode of Julie’s Cooking Show, chef Sophia the 9th teaches us how to make the ancient recipe for Flimmage. Enjoy!
Maybe it’s because I too long to write stories for young people like A. A. Milne did, thus becoming, like him and his Winnie-the-Pooh books, a small but meaningful part of the childhoods of countless kids. Or maybe it’s because I generally adore childhood so damn much or because Piglet, […]
Kids, you may want to sit down for this. You too, mom and dad, although I trust, deep down, you already know what you’re about to read is true. Despite what everyone from your doting elementary school teachers to the encouraging dude at the barber shop has been telling you […]
