If I Were Still in School, I’d Start Writing Term Papers in This Format

Previously on Cheek and Bluster

• Jon Swift, Gone Too Soon

  March 6, 2010

  The well-loved blogger and political satirist known as Jon Swift has died. Swift, whose real name (as we now know) was Al Weisel, was 46 years old.
  The news was broken to the blogosphere in a comment posted to his blog by his mother:
  I don’t know how else to tell you all who love this blog. [...]

• Top 15 #fishfilms or #mouthfilms Tweets

  March 2, 2010

  I don’t know if he still does, but I remember David Letterman used to do top ten lists where the category would be two different things. The name of the list would be an either/or proposition, something like “Top Ten Weather Man or Dog Breed Names.” Anyway, this format occurred to me when I couldn’t [...]

• Castellers are Totally Badass

  February 22, 2010

  Proof of my nerd cred: among my occasional pastimes is picking an image from the “Images for Cleanup” category at Wikimedia Commons and, you guessed it, cleaning it up. (If you’re curious, here’s an example of
  Nerdiness sometimes brings unexpected little rewards: last night I came across an image at the Commons that only needed [...]

• Howard Stern to Replace Simon Cowell? Not So Fast

  February 8, 2010

  …“If I do say so myself, I can’t imagine anyone else but me replacing [Cowell],” Stern said. “I mean, how else are they going to make that show work? Who knows how to broadcast and who knows how to be interesting? And who’s not afraid to speak their mind?”

  ME.

• Open Letter to Certain Residents of Beachwood Drive

  February 4, 2010

  It’s February 4th, assholes. Do you still actually think the city garbage men are going to pick up your Christmas tree?
  Let’s see… there have been about ten or twelve garbage pick-ups since New Years, and for some darned reason they’ve ignored your discarded tree every time. Oh wait—I know: it’s because they don’t pick [...]