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Announcement

I’ve decided to adopt a new style…and I’ve taken a new name to go along with it! Things are going to be quite different around here. Best regards,
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PR Winner of the Week: lady whose face was eaten off by best friend’s chimp

She’s back! That lady whose face was eaten off by her best friend’s powerful chimpanzee Travis returned to the spotlight last week, when she traveled to Washington to advocate
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The Race

I’ll never forget the day that Mikey and I raced to the little island in the middle of the river. As we stood on the bank, Mikey said the
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“Yeah, man! I’m naked, man! I’m naked on a bike next to your car! Sorry!!”

That’s what a naked guy on a bicycle said to me when I was driving home the other day, and got stuck beside an endless procession of naked people on
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First impressions of the David Foster Wallace biopic

Finally got my hands on a screener of the forthcoming David Foster Wallace biopic, “The End of the Tour.” It’s an adaptation of an unpublished Rolling Stone interview/Although Of Course You
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The Hummingbird

Maisie and John were playing tennis in Glendale. That’s when John saw it: a hummingbird hovering over the court, about eight feet above the net. “Look!” said John. “There’s
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Diary of a hike

Ah! Hiking! It’s good for the spirit! See? Flowers! Growing in nature! Say, what’s that purple thing? A balloon from a child’s birthday party, no doubt. It has  been known
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I always forget this about the Buddha

This part of the story: One afternoon, when he was 29, Siddhartha fell into a rage. He went into the other room, where his children sat quietly. The first
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Dread Pirate Roberts is laying it on a little thick

Update from the Facebook account of Ross Ulbricht, the constantly shirtless murder-hippie who ran that bitcoin marketplace for drugs and guns: “Dear mom, I had to make you this
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President Girl-Reagan bans mutants. Plus: a kid dip!

While browsing through the super high res and awesome National Archive photos online I found this one from Reagan’s 1981 Inaugural Ball: I thought it was weird because who
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