How to Explain My Fear of Scuba Divers Trying to Drown Me When I’m Wearing a Black Suit and Tie
I have this phobia. Where did it come from? An explanation, at last!
July 6, 2026
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On Stephen Foster’s Bicentennial, Listen to Randy VanWarmer’s Tribute Album
Randy VanWarmer’s final album, a haunting tribute to Stephen Foster, became all the more poignant when VanWarmer died on the anniversary of Foster’s death. Revisit a strange, beautiful, deeply personal recording by a musician who deserves to be remembered.
July 3, 2026
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Oblivioni is Back!
We’re off our brief hiatus, and you can look forward to great fiction, commentary and contrarian tastes and opinions. Also poetry!
May 15, 2026
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February 27, 2026
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Ah, the Indescribable Pleasures of that Day After Thanksgiving!
What exactly is the purpose of putting Thanksgiving on a Thursday? What is today for, exactly, this aimless extra day?
November 27, 2025
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Quote of the Day: The Day the Robots Stopped Reasoning
One day, we will tell our grandkids about the day the robots just decided to stop reasoning.
October 22, 2025
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Dederico Felloni, the Director who Died: The Ultimate, Totally Definitive Biography
Once hailed by dozens as a cult genius and derided by critics as the worst filmmaker in history, Dederico Felloni’s bizarre life and films defy belief. This two-volume “definitive” biography drags him from obscurity with equal parts obsession, absurdity and sheer narrative chaos.
September 29, 2025
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The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)
From Pliny’s tale of Kora tracing her lover’s shadow to neoclassical canvases where love and loss intertwine, artists have long imagined desire as the seed of representation. How did clay, shadow and longing gave rise to the mythic origins of painting and sculpture?
September 26, 2025
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Your Sunday Funnies: Ella Cinders
Ella Cinders was a long-running American comic strip created in 1925 by writer Bill Conselman and artist Charles Plumb, inspired by the Cinderella story but set in modern times.
September 7, 2025
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Chopped Liver Brothers, Fancy Fruit Men, and Does God Really Really Exist?: Alon Preiss Reviews the Web
Delving deeper into Brooklyn’s “Fancy Fruit” mystery. The internet really is dangerous.
September 2, 2025
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