pawky (PAW-kee) adjective Sly, shrewd; dryly humorous. [From Scots pawk (trick).] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

Now, I’m not going to name the restaurant where this happened — it’s a Japanese place in Colorado Springs, which is more than you need to know but easily surmised from the context — but it’s just this guy. This happened a couple of weeks ago, but it still makes me laugh… The waiter is

Jay Thomas tells the story. (via Neatorama)

Y.T. will have a short-short story called “Evolution” published at Clever Magazine in September.* Actually, I changed my modus operandi. I went looking around for a place that might publish the story…but ignored the ones I didn’t want to read. This one, I’ve read almost everything for this last quarter, and liked it. The setup

Don’t give Girl Geniuses regular coffee.

“The Elephant Song,” by Eric Herman. Do you have the mentality of a five-year-old? Click here.

Clip from Babe. “If I had words to make a day for you…”

After Venus (who started out as Goddess of the Sewers, a vital function in a town where cholera should be taken as a matter of course) got promoted, her intern, Caelia, got the job. Jove signed the contract himself (in blood), and suddenly, she was part of The Family. Things went smoothly for a long

His bones are set up like a set of wooden blocks stacked up to beyond eye level at complicated angles in a laughable attempt to balance them. A model built “larger than life and twice as natural.” His bright eyes switch between sharpness and humor. His cheeks are pliable from a lifetime of overblown laughter

It’s hard to write about Carrie Newcomer; there’s so much backstory. Lee first heard Carrie sing in West Lafayette, Indiana — Purdue country. He was living above a variety store called Von’s (I think it was about that time) around what had to be one of the world’s most intense nest of gamers. Aside from