Notes on the Always-Bowling Tribe of Eastern Borneo

I spent a few years studying the Always-Bowling Tribe of Eastern Borneo under a grant from the Pew-Pew and Fingergun endowment. As an anthropologist, it was a choice between that job or painting houses in Greenland. The tribe was like none I’d ever encountered. And, other scientists are similarly at a loss as to how […]

R. N. Domth Oughts

If I was being besieged in a castle in the middle ages, I’d try my hardest to convince the people surrounding me that THEY were the ones under siege and that they were going to be trapped out there FOREVER if they didn’t leave. She called me a “grade A rat” which was surprising because […]

Crises that I Can’t Get Worked Up About

Dying Bees: Here’s a riddle for you: What creature has the same name as the letter of the alphabet and also put my cousin into anaphylactic shock? And, remember that “jellyfish” is not a letter of the alphabet. Yes, I know they pollinate stuff but so do other creatures. I’ve got my eye on some […]

New on Television, this Summer…

My Big Fat Heroin-addict Mom: It is, in fact, the reality show to end all reality shows… at least I hope that’s what it does. A woman with a heroin habit and a compulsive eating disorder tries to juggle two kids… probably because she’s so high that she thinks they are oranges. If successful, the […]