BP Spills Coffee

As a show of faith in the ability of BP (or anyone for that matter) to clean up the oil spill, Upright Citizens Brigade presents you with some acerbic salve for the soul. After a long day of cleaning globs of petroleum off of whatever livelihood you've lost, what better way to unwind than laughing until you cry into your beer. Please, just be careful not to spill.

Sherman Alexie

I did a project about Sherman Alexie for a poetry class in college. My favorite poems of his are "Evolution" and "On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City." I remember joking about him having a mullet.

Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised to see him on the Colbert Report. It seemed odd to me that, in searching for a video of the interview, I came across this footage of Alexie speaking shortly after 9/11. Maybe because the poetry class that I didn't go to the morning of 9/11 was the same poetry class in which I gave my Alexie presentation. I could gush about how cathartic his words are for me now, but I'll let Alexie speak for himself.