Widely Ranging Interests

WRI 61: The Curse of the Flying Tomato

WRI 84: Turtles All The Way Down

Chilis, Itchy Arms, Ghosts.  The Mother Vine.  Defeatist Indiginous Parables.  Do they have American Redneck Vampires in Romania?  The Pilgrim's Demise.

WRI 83: There Are Only Eight Nuts

Pop Culture, Clash Therein.  Coffeehouse Wisemen.  A Distant Land, a Tempting Snack.  Guild Membership at Last?  Harvest This: Francis Asks Mark the Most Important Question Ever.

WRI 82: The Perigrinator

Ski Jumping in the Iron Age. Fathers of the Daughters of the American Revolution: Oh the Fabrics we Loomed. Itinerant Wanderer of the Skies. Wiccan Wisteria. The Mold of 1000 Salamis. V-Necks and Epaulettes. Sno-Cone Programs. Chicago Block Party: A Multi-Cultural Experience of a Different Kind. Homemade Mini-Golf. Hunting and College Football. The Pagan Gods of the Deep South. NASCAR Creamed Corn.

WRI 81: (Dilettante) Barbarians At The Gates

The Small Hadron Collider.  Charmed, I'm sure.  Punk priests vs. Punk Protesters, Artistes vs Galleristas.  Jack Booted Thugs of varied tastes. Vladimir Lenin: Hipster.  Mark, The Perigrinator.

WRI 80: Easter Miracles

5th Grade Science Camp.  Traumatic Fishing; Traumatic Bug Juice.  Lessons of Fancy-Ass Private Schools.  The Smallest Frog in the World.  The Flying Bells of Belgium.  Pomlazka;  Holy Mud; Voluntary Crucifixion.  Hipster Jesus. 

WRI 79: Raw Bars of the Sodatic Zone

Behold the Mollusk, Lobster Nothwithstanding; Recreational Dive Day, Adequate Collegiate Earnings. Sir Burton, My pipe!  Francis and Mark, Fencer and Falconer.  The Gastro-Homo-Tourism Boom.

WRI 78: Curse You!

Return of Magic to the Modern World.  Capybaras.  Trouting Pants.  Noodling, AKA Catfisting.  The Barracuda of the Forest.  The Growing Threat from China.  Godzilla Vis-A-Vis the Microbial Mat.  La Bufadora, the Blowhole of Legend; Saint Peter the Martyr; Devil's Peak.  Lions Stuffed with Cocaine.  The Monsters of the Aspen Grove.

WRI 77: The Thrifty Shaman

Merry Wives of Trash; Orangutan Typists.  Thorrablot.  Mark's Bloody Family Rituals.  A Bouquet of Ammonia.  Failed Greetings and Tripping Reindeer.  The Circle of Piss.

WRI 76: We Are The Casuals

War…What Is It Good For?  The Underfilmed Korean Police Action.  The Shortest War; Interactive History; A Cubbyhole for Zanzibar.  The Four Feathers.  A Pitch Battle: Casuals United.  Disappearing in a Shimmering Desert Heat Haze.  Poorly Dressed American

WRI 75: The University of WRI

Horn-monculous.  Mash Ups.  The Official WRI Novel: Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters.  The Scottish Play meets Wilma and Betty.  Earwolf?  Earwolf!!!  Frisian Dance Mania.  The Sexy Ratio.  Earwolf!!!!!!

WRI 74: Home of the Hobo

Croatian fashion; ascots v. cravats: a blazer in Estoril.  Sea-swept tennis with a literary legend.  The most boring job in the world.  Nostalgia for the Jersey Shore.  Hoboken, a punchline no more.  Bad grammar: an affront.  Write about us!

WRI 73: Life As A Metaphor For Baseball

Little League Gold Glove:  An Imaginary Award.  Owl Creek Bridge: Some Crazy Sh**. Symbolism Pass.  The Peripatetic James Joyce; Mädchen in Lederhosen.  George Washington: Unfunny.  Ouroborous in Baseball.  The Swastika Cap.

WRI 72: Don't Need No Teef To Eat Mr. Jim's Beef

Traumatic Experiences and Live Jazz; Science Teachers and Live Jazz; Failure.  The Marty and Elaine of South Central.  Mark's Ghetto Ride.  Kappa Girls: the Best.  Faculty Night, a Sorority.  Richly Deserved Applause.

WRI 71: Tiger Mind Control

Polaroid Montages; Polar Bear Vision; The Polar Bear Expedition.  A short History of World War I.  A Somewhat Forgotten Great Game.  The Lost Czechoslovakian Legion.  Siberia: Just a Small Part of a Greater Vastness.  Spartacists, Banging On.  The Amur Tiger.  The Legend of the Czar's Lost Gold.  Pleistocene Re-Wilding.  The North Los Angeles Atlatl Society.  A Special Secret.

WRI 70: Comedic Cheese

The Cheese Cart Beneath Disney Hall.  Bacterial Blooms: A Plate of Shrimp.  The Microbial Mat.  A Second Neruda, Emerging From the Ocean.  Fecal Transplant Therapy.

The Flying Nazis of Denver

The Denver Airport Conspiracy.  Organic Vocabulary Building.  The International Scrabble Cabal.  Fly the Friendly Skies in a Nazi Flying Saucer.  The Planck Energy: Good or Evil?  The John Browns of Hadron Emancipation.

WRI 69: The Flying Nazis of Denver

The Denver Airport Conspiracy.  Organic Vocabulary Building.  The International Scrabble Cabal.  Fly the Friendly Skies in a Nazi Flying Saucer.  The Planck Energy: Good or Evil?  The John Browns of Hadron Emancipation.

WRI 68: Sea Water Madness

Peach or Pink?  Spike-Driving.  J. Gould's daughter, hobos, and tea-less-ness.  Mutiny's bounty.  Christian Castaways and Irish Morality; Irish Shanty-Towns.  Moonshine Boat Launches.  Gay Santa Claus.  Cockles.

WRI 67: A Modern-Day Diogenes

A Literal Roach Coach. A Date with a Girl From Queens. Sunset from the Whitestone Bridge. Furious Art Debate in the Oxford Union. Baseball Steak. The Golden Age of Crackpot Science. Curious Anomalies Under Los Angeles. Chief Little Green Leaf. Los Angeles Times on Microfiche; Underground Lizard Cities. G. Warren Shufelt, Vindicated? Onion Recipes.

WRI 66: World Cup En Fuego

Popular Brightly Colored Soccer Shirts. The Slovenes are Haunting WRI. Desert Foxes. Someone Loses an Eye. Pantaloons and Pointy Shoes. 30,000 Esperanto speakers can’t be malgusta.

WRI 65: The Mustache of Irony

A puce moment.  The competitive beard community.  Send the Admiral to Alaska! Canadians in tuxedos. Insulting the Spanish.  Fermented mare’s milk, the churning of.  Bishkek, Donderscamp, The Hut River Principality: Sister Cities to a metaphorical concept.  

WRI 64: Nietzsche's Tool

Scientific differences in musical genres. The Bad Brains: Big in Mexico.  Francis in Turtleneck.  The role of Jesus, Superstar. Saltpeter Hospital: seeding the American midwest with the worst of the worst, only French.  Soap, a new-fangled concept.  Behold the Dynomometer, a fine parlor game. A Numeric Value for Erotic Tension.  Factualation.

WRI 62: The Worshipful Company of Grocers

Calendrical heresy.  7 yr old hangings.  Of camels and cloves.  Strange laws, all lies.  Straight on the Interstate.  Canadian Cocktails.  Pig?  Poke.

WRI 63: Marcus the Sublime, Francis the Jejune

Neanderthals in Coracles. Pondering the Holy Roman Empire. Notker the Stammerer. Latinate Names. Transhumance and Statelessness. The Treaty of Trianon and Francis’ Passport. The Free City of Trieste. Blind Drunk and Shot by Narcotraficantes.  A Coffee Plantation of the Imagination. Weasel Coffee, WRI Coffee.

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