The Rules of Play Action

Set in the shadow of the decaying buildings and streets of Baltimore, The Rules of Play Action is a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three kharacters with no plans for the future - or even the present - who become entangled in a curious romantic triangle. Rikki-Tikki-Deadly trains his incisive

Your “Gravity Always Wins” Jets-Browns Open Thread

It is hard to fathom The Narrator's cruelty, sometimes.  Most fans of moribund franchises approach the season with glum resignation, knowing that draft picks and free agent acquisitions will have little effect on the team's fortunes, and by mid-November they can comfortably relax and enjoy the feats of more competitive

White Horse

Everything would have gone smoothly if it hadn't been for that damned horse DNA. "Zzzzzmmpt lllllllloooooommmmm tt mmzzzzzzz eeeeeeee tptptpt?" the mission specialist griped, in a series of hisses, pops, and other tones that translates roughly to ["Why the fuck are you splicing that equine shit into my chromosomes?"] The genesplicing technician

Snap Draft: Halloween Movies

As the Dr. Mrs. vacuums around me, I'm thinking to myself...hey, I don't have a Smartest Coach on Earth post ready for today, and I don't have enough time to put one together.  But at its heart, the Smartest Coach on Earth series is mainly about taking someone else's idea

On Joining the Century Club

--- #1 --- I'll never forget my first. It was in Casablanca, of all places.  He was a junior officer in the Deutsches Afrikakorps, stationed there as part of the occupation facilitated by the Vichy Government.  I was only sixteen.  I had snuck away from my boarding school in Basel for a little