Wes Phillips

My definition of great writing is writing that makes you care about stuff you never even knew interested you. By that definition, this Warren St. John article explaining why he cares about college football qualifies. I think I'm going to buy Rammer, Jammer, Yellow Hammer for the flight home from Vegas.

I see it, but I can't make it work.

Nothing says romance like a guinea pig costume.

It starts to rain: Do you run or walk?

Not the you're thinking about, but one that explains how animals run, fly, and swim.

Through a process that R. Luke Dubois has dubbed "time-lapse phongraphy," you can listen to all of Billboard's number one singles since 1958. Playing a "spectral average" of each piece, lasting one second for each week it charted, the 857 songs create a spacey collage.

All I ever do with it is thicken sauces. Onviously, I lack imagination.