Other Projects:

A semi-complete list of publishers who accept electronic submissions

A handy research source for people who want to learn more about college football and college football history

I Am Not Proud:

Spare change accepted, as long as it is on a credit card. (Opens a new window)

People Who Are Funnier Than Me:

Homestar Runner
A remarkable breakthrough in cartoons! It's called "humor".

The Onion
News satire at its finest.

The Comics Curmudgeon
A man gripes about how unfunny the comics are. Funnier than the actual comics.

The Best Page in the Universe
The man, the myth, the pirate, Maddox.

David Fong
An old friend. Old friends get links in this neighborhood.

Odd Todd
The continuing adventures of a man who got laid off in the dot-com bust.

The Brad Christensen Exhibit
A man who scams the 419 scammers.

Belligerence and Debauchery: The Tucker Max Life
I don't get into him much, but he lives a truly bizarre life.

The Straight Dope
The smartest man in the universe answers questions you never knew you had.

Want to know how many people have visited this site since February of 2005?

Neither do I.

Essays

Philosophy/Science

• The Speed of Gravity
• Upon Further Reflection: Determining Whether Gravity Moves at the Speed of Light
• Global Warming --or-- CO₂ is A-OK (A Three-Part Article)
• Getting to Know Uranus

Getting Green on the Grid, Global Warming Addendum, Feasting On The Flesh of the Invaders: A Guide to the Environment, This Is Not the Title of This Article, Really Want to Disprove Intelligent Design? Then Disprove Evolution., God and Evil, The Earth is Flat. Prove Me Wrong, Suction

Arts & Entertainment

How to Write an English Paper, Of Course Frey Lied, He Wanted to Get Published, Didn't He?, A New Pleasure: X-Play, Live 8's Message to the People of the World: You're All Useless, The New Entertainment, Life's Too Short not to Watch Shit Blow Up on Television, Why American Literature is Crap, The Internet and Literature, Eulogy Upon Douglas Adams

Holidays

A Video Christmas Card to You, A God and Guns Christmas

College Football (and Other Sports)

• Why College Football Playoffs Are a Bad Idea (A Seven-Part Article)
• The Fifth BCS Bowl

College Football Preseason Predictions, College Football Preseason Conference Predictions, What I Love About College Football, College Football Preview 2007: Issues, Part II, College Football Preview 2007: Other Issues, College Football 2007 Premortem, College Football 2006 Midcap, Charlie Weis and Notre Dame, 2006 College Football Preview, What the Hell Am I Going to Do Without My Olympic Curling Coverage?, I'm Not Going to Talk About College Football, Why Have College Football Playoffs? Everyone Already Hates Them., The BCS Is Out... Begin Bitching For No Reason, The Problem of Obnoxious College Football Fans, One Ohio State Fan's Apology For His Conduct, The Coming Season, Offensive Mascots: Who are they Offending, Really?, Ohio State's Chances in 2005, College Football 2004: The Landscape Shifts, The Big East Misses the Boat, ACC Chooses Poorly

Society

What Do Economists Do?, Articles I Thought About Writing, But Didn't, Baby Boomers and Drugs, How Do We Know John Seigenthaler Sr. Didn't Kill Kennedy?, Important Update: Americans Bored By Actual News, I Should Start a Blog, What Idiot Would Watch ESPN Hollywood?, Observations From a New Clevelander, Open Letter to the City of Cleveland, Offensive Mascots: Who are they Offending, Really?, If You Think Foreigners are Stealing American Jobs, Get Over Here and Mow My Lawn, Mail-Order

Business

What Do Economists Do?, Are GM and Ford Only Laying Off the People Who Put "Shitty" Into Their Cars?, If You Think Foreigners are Stealing American Jobs, Get Over Here and Mow My Lawn

Travelogues and Travel Writing

• Malta 2007
• Fiesta Bowl 2003: One Last Look Back
• Europe 2000
• Europe 1999

Fictions

• The Rock Atop Cair Andros
  Not the Cair Andros from Tolkienian myth, but a sort of fable. I never found the name of the rock where a person who fell asleep on it would die or become a poet, so I stuck with a name I liked.
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Screenplay
  The one I wrote, not the one from the terrible movie.
• Goodnight Manhattan
  A novel project that really wasn't all that novel. But it is finished, so what the heck?
• Forgettably Memorable
  A short story that I rather liked back when I wrote it.

Poetry

• Signar's Saga
  The Norse epic. A tale of gods, giants, and Vikings.
• The New Season
  A stirring tribute to the arrival of a new college football season.
• Collected Short Verse
  A collection of some shorter pieces.