Best Tea for Quitting Coffee (if you’re rich) by Evan Shultz Sleepless nights. Grumpy mornings. Getting startled at work, and responding with a roundhouse kick to a coworker’s jugular. Chewing grounds when the filters run out. It may be time to quit coffee. But I’ve been there, tried that. Switching to decaf sundered any hope […]
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The Little Radio Station That Couldn’t by James Roland I heard a ghost on the radio the other day. Idling in traffic on Cahuenga Boulevard, I dialed in the only station I truly loved, the only one I could stand to hear for more than two blocks of traffic, and found a tinny recorded message […]
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The Best Beer for Hiking Cambodia By James Roland The Temples of Angkor: the hottest tourist attraction in Southeast Asia. Each year thousands of folks from around the world fly or bus into Siem Reap, Cambodia to walk amidst crumbling history and endure constant 90-degree weather and high humidity. Hikers beat the heat with a […]
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Brilliant Infamy by Joel Champagne Supervillains have always had a rough lot. As an avid reader of science fiction, I’ve found myself rooting for the villains simply because, no matter what they do, they’re defeated by the most random of events. I can’t tell you how many times I read books that contained the following […]
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Show Me Your Monsters and I’ll Show You Mine by Rebecca S. Rea Psychoanalysts should give this a try: Create a Rorschach test, then have the patient consider deeply the meaning hidden within its forms…and doodle the bejeebers out of it! Stephan G. Bucher of 344 Design, uses a similar technique to exorcise his own […]
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Beyond the Limits of Wood and String By Joel Champagne Guitarist videos on YouTube can seem like grains of sand on the beach — countless in number and nearly indistinguishable from one another. But Andy McKee does not merely play the guitar. He transforms it into a waterfall of strums, taps, and percussive beats that […]
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Animalympics! by Titus Gee In case anyone is running short on athletic stimulation with the close of the Olympics, RF’s favorite emerging cartoonist, David Wolter, has created a sequel, The Animalympics. Wolter announced, on Monday, his pledge to create a new panel of animal athletes every Monday in the month of September. Stop by and […]
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Art in the Public Space by Titus Gee Mountain Dew has got it figured out. Until Wednesday, the last time I “did the Dew” was in college when I depended on a steady stream of caffeine and sugar to fuel seemingly endless weeks of all-night shenanigans and philosophical conversations. You might say I regressed a […]
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Best Drink (in the World) for Saturday Morning Cartoons by Benjamin Ross Dooley’s Original Toffee & Vodka dulls the pain of what Saturday mornings have become by helping you re-discover the great cartoons of yester-year. When the sinking standards of weekend morning animation make the bar seem more inviting than the couch, Dooley’s label calls […]
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Welcome to the Twilight Zone’s Arcade by Evan Shultz The alien invader sweeps back and forth across the screen, mocking me with his waving tentacles. I’ve never been good at Space Invaders — my game was Centipede — but this looks easy: nothing on the screen but my cannon and a single ponderously slow victim. […]
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