Tossers
Almost all the Highland Games’ events involve throwing things that should really
be left alone. There’s the Hammer Throw, the Stone Putt, the Braemar Stone Putt
(like the Stone Putt but with
Paul Buchanan
Wheels
Maybe it’s just my age—maybe I’m just a grumpy old man—but for me the expression
“third wheel” ranks right up there with “I could care less” in my list
The Talented Mr. Shrdlu
Today he is all but forgotten, but there was a time when Etaoin Shrdlu showed up
daily in newspapers across the U.S. His name most often appeared in the dense
columns of
Deep Waters: A Review of Diane Setterfield’s Once Upon a River
Diane Setterfield’s atmospheric and entirely-charming new novel, Once Upon a
River, released this week by Emily Bestler Books, takes place in the mid-19th
century, an age suspended between Darwin and divination. The
I Want to Believe
It was just after dinner on a weeknight in 1981 when my best friend Tom called
me on the phone to ask if I’d be his wingman on an exorcism.
Tom had