Pax Arcana
Don’t expect much in this space, as the sunny and composed Mrs. Pax Arcana and I are tending to our Western properties in California this week.
Not to worry — the capable Perry Ellis will attend to our gardens (Topsy Turvy Estates) and my Hungarian manservant is fully capable of caring and feeding Father [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 29, 2009
Oh yeah, I’m gone
June 26, 2009
Friday Random 10: Michael Jackson Edition
Pax Arcana
As is so often the case at times of great upheaval, the world now looks to me to make sense of the death of Michael Jackson.
Very well.
Michael Jackson was the capstone of a line of cultural touchstones who bridged the gap between “white” and “black” music. Like Elvis, Otis Redding, and Smokey Robinson before [...]
June 25, 2009
The wallabies are stoned
Pax Arcana
A few days ago we brought you the not-really latest on Australia’s adorable political scandal, and quoted a pundit wallaby on the matter. Several readers wrote in to complain that wallaby pundit’s language was more gibberish than the queen’s English.
“These blowies are cross as a frog in a sock, but all this earbashing is [...]
June 24, 2009
Wednesday filler: George Brett has a story for you (it’s about dookie)
Pax Arcana
Baseball hall of famers are really just like us. They put their pants on one leg at a time, then they take them off in the nearest restroom at the Bellagio.
Via The Wright Stache
June 24, 2009
This sandwich makes me think of penises
Pax Arcana
I consider myself a virile man of the American heartland. I stand astride large boulders and wipe the sweat from my brow with palms dirty from the long day’s labor. I squint my eyes in the noonday sun and hold doors for ladies. I eat ribs — bones and all.
Still, there’s something about this [...]
June 24, 2009
The 12-step program for home ownership
Pax Arcana
The color-savvy and well-appointed Mrs. Pax Arcana and I are officially homeowners this morning, after closing on our new condo yesterday afternoon.
We’re like this, only better-looking and less denim-y
Now that we’re finally the stewards of our own domain, please allow me to sum up the first-time homebuyer’s experience in 12 steps. Consider it a [...]
June 22, 2009
Australian political scandals are cute as koala bears
Pax Arcana
You can tell how important a country is by the type and size of scandal required to upset the sitting government.
Here in America, we just had a president who started a war by lying about what the enemy was doing and a vice president who drunkenly shot some dude in the muthafuckin’ face — [...]
June 22, 2009
You don’t need a brain to donate a kidney
Pax Arcana
Last year we pointed to a study that showed that motorcycle-related fatalities went up dramatically in Pennsylvania after the state repealed its helmet law.
At the time I thought that was a bad thing. Now I realize how wrong I was.
According to Freakonomics, repealing helmet laws is a good way to increase the availability of [...]
June 19, 2009
Friday Random 10: Agency Edition
Pax Arcana
During a baseball game my senior year in high school, I made peanut butter on the bench by crushing up a bunch of peanuts under the head of my bat. Later in the game I hit a home run off a particularly renowned pitcher. Every game for the rest of the season I made [...]
June 19, 2009
Chopped carrots give you cancer
Pax Arcana
As you are aware by now, I am considered one of the foremost scientific minds on the planet. My grasp of disciplines from zoology to pharmacology to pharmacozoology has bedazzled my collegues in the Grand Council of the Great and Serious Men of Science for decades.
That said, I admit I was surprised to learn [...]
