Having mastered the works of one Dr. Seuss at a precocious age, it was clear that I would be naturally gifted in the art of freestyle rap, should I ever choose to make my debut in this art form.    However, even with the force of this overwhelming scientific evidence, my obstinate boyfriend Mr. Cleemann saw fit

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I met the last short girl I loved in pretty much the same way that I met the first short girl I loved. I was five days out of jail and I parked the car I was sleeping in right outside her house. Like the first short girl, she was a little over four feet.

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It is reported that the 14-year-old Nietzsche was known as “The Little Pastor” at the Schulpforta school, for his resemblance to a country parson in seriousness and other-worldliness. In fact he was sometimes called    “The Little Groover” for his wild harmonica playing and hipness, and the whole received biography of him is open to deconstruction. Indeed

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Presenting: The Defenestrati, a crowd-created Defenestration comic.

———— Daniel Bailey lives and drinks and writes and makes computer drawings in Muncie, Indiana, the Midwest’s cultural epicenter. His blog is called Metaphysical Dick Touching (http://97percent.blogspot.com/).