Rock You Like A Himacane When I first met the The Associated Press Stylebook oh so many years ago, I found it smug, snobbish. I resented it the [...] Marisa Demarco \ Nov 26, 2009 Read More “Of course there’s a hyphen in ‘hanky-panky.’ And we’ll have none of it.” —The Stylebook personified
Flashquiz: You’re A Flag Tuesday is like Friday for us Alibi folks. Tuesdays are when we “put the issue to bed” by sending the paper’s pages off [...] Laura Marrich \ Nov 19, 2009 Read More
A Lot Of Comedy Is Not Funny Take this cartoon I made, for example. The New Yorker is inviting people to make their own cartoons and submit them for a [...] Marisa Demarco \ Nov 19, 2009 Read More
More About Las Drogas See that green box on our homepage? Live tweets coming from the International Drug Policy Reform Conference happening through Saturday at the Albuquerque [...] Marisa Demarco \ Nov 19, 2009 Read More
H1N1 Update This just in from the Department of Health: The list of vaccine priority groups will now include adults with medical conditions that react [...] Marisa Demarco \ Nov 19, 2009 Read More
National Feed America Day Sen. Tom Udall cosponsored a bill that calls for Americans to give up two meals today and donate to food banks. (Plus you [...] Marisa Demarco \ Nov 19, 2009 Read More
Water On The Moon! Avast! There be water on the moon. Now the return address I practiced writing as a kid:Edith P. Giblets, 1234 Hammington Road, Gaia’s [...] Edith P. Giblets \ Nov 19, 2009 Read More I do believe I’ll summer on the Sea of Tranquility
Twee Pop Friday Music For Moping Around I’ve been hot and heavy on the mod music lately, so, because it got a mention in this week’s paper, let’s explore happy, [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Nov 19, 2009 Read More
Columbus Go Home! Robert Erickson of Minneapolis got himself on the list of speakers at an anti-immigration Tea Party in the St. Paul, Minnesota. On the [...] Marisa Demarco \ Nov 19, 2009 Read More
Just Call Me “Cookie” So I didn’t come across the affordable eight-seater solid-wood dining table I was looking for on Craigslist. But I did find a $20,000 [...] Laura Marrich \ Nov 12, 2009 Read More Also includes an antique side mill, wagon wheel wrench and wagon tongue. I remember having to buy a wagon tongue to get the game started in Oregon Trail.