Tag: John Bailey Owen

Sad news for fans of Nathan For You

The beard disguise was one of my favorite bits on the show, too. Pretty sick that something so funny was also used for crimes.
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Two facebook statuses

that I remembered last week when there was all that reddit-talk about the new paradigm of reddit. These were posted right after Mubarak resigned: “Congratulations, Egypt! Welcome to democracy!”
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Some old pieces about the Facebook game Jetman

What an exciting title for a post. This is the game I am talking about: For a few weeks in college, everyone played this a lot on Facebook. In
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I’m afraid I have to cancel yesterday’s post

You know what the worst thing is? The image is called “hummington.jpg,” and I saw the name before I saw the actual image. I thought it was going to
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Hummingbirds

What’s that, John? You like hummingbirds? You like to look out of your window and see them? That’s very discerning of you, John. You are a good man. What’s
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The Day Coffee Stopped Working

One surprising thing I learned recently is that coffee is losing its effect. Here’s a diagram from Science which shows how coffee’s ability to stimulate is undergoing exponential decay: I
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An Interview With Some Tweezers

    Here’s how I decided to deal with my acne when I was thirteen: An office. My 13 year old self is sitting at a desk. Tweezers enters.
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This was Joan Crawford’s bookplate

I found this in a 50s compendium of bookplates. When Joan Crawford was filming morale-boosters at the end of World War II she met an Italian guy who had
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In high school, I watched someone sing this at our talent show:

He and a friend who didn’t go to our school sang along to it as it played on a CD: He had been in charge of planning the talent
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