Wagist

Vegetarianism and the NAP

Posted on Fri, February 26, 2010 by Trent Strong

A multi-video series on vegetarianism.

Recycling Science

Posted on Thu, February 18, 2010 by Jess Freeman

Do you believe the scientists who say that the Higgs boson is so abhorrent to nature that if one were made, it would cause a ripple back in time that would destroy the machine that made it?

Laundry: The Smug Soul-Crusher

Posted on Mon, February 8, 2010 by Sara Chamberlin

There is something downright soul-crushing about laundry. Everything about it makes me feel like a giant, miserable failure at life.

Michelle, Michael and a silly fantasy

Posted on Mon, February 8, 2010 by Bill Michalek

Thoughts on a Winter Olympic without Michelle Kwan

Billy and Me – My Generation Gap with myself

Posted on Fri, February 5, 2010 by Bill Michalek

When I was thirteen, the destined-for-shlock-immortality movie Billy Jack premiered in my home town of Torrance. My friend Steve and I walked to the “fifty-cent-movies” on Crenshaw and PCH to see it.

I Cannot Tell a Lie

Posted on Thu, January 28, 2010 by Colleen Newport

Lila ruined sitcoms for me forever. Lila ruined chick flicks for me forever. Lila ruined teen books about vacationing bloomers for me forever. Hell, Lila ruined me forever.

Back

Posted on Mon, January 25, 2010 by Alex Halpern

He sat on the back porch in a red wooden chair next to his father. The porch was screened in and vines curled around up around the sides. Beyond it was pasture, still green but unfertilized. Byron Whitaker had grown up on this back porch and in that field. Then he’d gone away to war and now he was back.

Apocalypse Now

Posted on Mon, January 25, 2010 by Alex Halpern

I, like a lot of my generation, have an unhealthy fascination with the end of the world. Every generation has its bogeyman, be it vampires, werewolves, ghosts or what have you. For us, it’s the zombie, that massive horde of putrefied flesh, those broken teeth looking to bite and convert an unwilling victim into another mindless drone.