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Here’s a headline that caught my eye:  Wisconsin Professor wins 2011 Bad Writing Contest. The wha????  I couldn’t have been more excited. Who wouldn’t want to be the best at being the worst? Since 1982, San Jose University has held the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (“where WWW stands for Wretched Writers Welcome.”)  The contest challenges writers to [...]

While your smile is melting straight off your face and your lawn furniture is bursting into flames, your local news team is trying to figure out ways to keep you guessing when it comes to what this crazy weather will do next.  The hope is that you will be too intrigued to turn away and [...]

For some completely inexplicable reason an envelope arrived in the mail recently from The Scooter Store.  I instantly started wondering what sort of spending habits I may have developed that would convince anyone that I would be in the market for such a product. I am 36 years old (almost 37) and while that hurts [...]

  In early February 2011, my father, Harry Welshofer, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.  Just a few weeks later, he was gone. Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of all cancer deaths and its survival rate has not improved in a staggering 25 years. Please join me in the fight against this devastating disease. [...]

Planking is so last week.  So, I regret to inform you that if you haven’t yet wrapped your mind around the trend that has people all over the world photographing themselves lying flat on their faces in various strange and different locations, you may not be ready for what’s come next.  Turns out planking was just a [...]

On the off-chance that you can’t find your happy place, allow me. For those days when even Joan Rivers’ plastic surgeon couldn’t carve a smile on your face may I present: The Daily Otter. Found on Tumblr, this little blog describes itself simply as “OMFG Otters!” and that’s exactly what you will saying as you look [...]