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Arts editor for MPR as Max Sparber. Award-winning writer and author. 3X illegitimate. He/him.
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FROM THE LAND OF SKY BLUE WATERS

I don’t eat meat, but I do make exceptions for novelty meats. And, oh boy, I found a doozy. I give you Grundhofers, home of the world-famous gummy bear bratworst.

I am become death cab, transporter of cuties.

I sometimes like to do this to communicate how tall Christopher Lee was. Here he is with Peter Cushing. Peter Cushing was six feet tall.

Elvis Presley during a zombie apocalypse: We can’t go on together with delicious minds

This is also worth examining from a historical perspective, as IQ tests were used to justify discriminatory immigration practices by declaring undesirables -- particularly Jews, Italians, and Eastern Europeans -- to be intellectually inferior.

Legendary hater Charles Darwin

I have a theory about casinos. You know that you hear bells and klaxons whenever people win? I think if you instead heard flushing toilets whenever people lose, nobody would ever go in. I feel sort of the same way about best-of SNL retrospectives.

Is it weird that I want to be a headless ghost, just carrying my head under my arm?

I was wondering who else would come out to see Sweet Honey in the Rock at 8:30 on a Thursday but now that I am here, the answer is obvious: very cool people

Darth Vader's full name was Dartholomew Space Invader

There is only one great film adaptation of The Odyssey, Guy Maddin’s The Keyhole, which is just Jason Patrick wandering from room to room in his house

Whenever I feel low I just remind myself that there is almost certainly an alternative universe in which the only word used for sex is “doink”

Bruce Springsteen: (deep inhale) WELL THERE'S

Amazingly, James Bond -- a fascistic hero beloved for his 1960s Playboy magazine vibes -- made it to this decade, mostly thanks to Daniel Craig's 50 percent successful revitalization of the character. But maybe it's time he retired.

Post a meme made by you

Leaves of Grass is basically the Tao te Ching except the road is literal and there are a lot more New York roughnecks in it

We have a top shelf in our kitchen that is too high to be usable and this past week I decided to purchase and display Japanese ceramics on it and it's still early in the process but this may be the best decision I have ever made.