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• 16 Carnival of the Vanities - The Ten Horned Beast

  I cooked them scrambled eggs and made sure they had enough beer. Dad regaled them with a story from his childhood where he conned a man into buying a bag of turds for a dime and the wife's head popped off and flew around the room, shrieking imprecations at the heavens.

  in Culture — by Bigwig — on Nov 27, 2002

• 15 The Carnival of the Vanities Number Nine, Number Nine

  The secret is in getting the gym shorts to rotate so that the waist opens up on the descent, thus providing ample space for the all important cranial insertion, the angle of which determines the final position of the shorts on the contestant's head. Actually landing a full wimple or rastafari is an incredibly rare event.

  in Culture — by Bigwig — on Nov 20, 2002

• 14 Men at Work

  I bet Madonna would bite off bat heads if her tiny tricycle broke.

  in Music — by Bigwig — on Nov 15, 2002

• 13 Carnival of the Vanities #8

  It's the first proof that the comic strip appreciation gene I got from Dad might have legs. She certainly doesn't get it from her mother, who looked at me rather oddly when I told her that her two-year-old now had her own subscription bag at the comic book store.

  in Culture — by Bigwig — on Nov 13, 2002

• 12 Carnival of the Vanities #7

  I'll wake up one day tied down to my bed by the rubbery strands of gigantic slime molds domesticated by the great-great-great-great-great grandkids of an E.coli bacterium that saw me destroy the best cells of his generation.

  in Culture — by Bigwig — on Nov 06, 2002

• 11 Carnival of the Vanities #6

  Baby don't like jazz, and baby don't care for metaphor. Baby is, after all, an accountant.

  in Culture — by Bigwig — on Oct 30, 2002

• 10 Carnival of the Vanities #4

  The second hardest thing is to learn is to avoid tired old clapped out baseball metaphors

  in Culture — by Bigwig — on Oct 16, 2002

• 9 Carnival of the Vanities #3

  Gossip Blog! Gossip about Bloggers for Bloggers! All Day, Every Day!

  in Culture — by Bigwig — on Oct 09, 2002

• 8 Carnival of the Vanities, #2

  How to please your reader! Post longer and more frequently! How to avoid embarrassing premature equivocation!

  in Culture — by Bigwig — on Oct 02, 2002

• 7 9/11 Comic Strip Reviews

  I've always thought that reading the comic strips is a highly subjective experience; I've no other way to explain the continued existence of Cathy.

  in Culture — by Bigwig — on Sep 25, 2002