Retailers have been slopping their Christmas come-ons into the weeks before Thanksgiving since at least 1986--that's the earliest citation Word Spy has for "Christmas creep," the retailers' own term for the phenomenon. more ›

The above drawing of a werewolf - cryptically entitled "Werewolf" - is just one of the many bizarre masterpieces on this website of a local 34 year old aspiring cartoonist. But what might be even more interesting than his art is his public myspace blog, which no doubt gets better traffic than Seattlest. more ›