A Thousand Words: A Moving Story

PHILADELPHIA, PA -There’s a special room in Hell reserved for movers. It’s right beside the room holding the cable guy who said he’d be at your house between 9 and 4 and two doors down from the mechanic who swore your car needed a new filibusterator. This room, which is called something fun like The Devil’s Armpit, is only 528 square feet and:mind-blowingly hotcompletely and totally empty.The way I see it, The Devil’s Armpit will look exactly like the apartment my wife Juliana and I moved to in

How they laugh in Hell

Anyone who doesn’t think that government bureaucracy eventually destroys all it touches should read this solicitation by the U.S. Department of the Treasury for consultants to provide “two, 3-hour Humor in the Workplace programs.” You’ve never seen, I promise you, a more humorless treatment of humor. It specifies, among other requirements, that: “Participants shall experience demonstrations of cartoons being created on the spot. The contractor shall have the ability to create cartoons on the

Chocolate Shop Frenzy Price Drop to $0.99

Chocolate Shop Frenzy has seen a summer price drop to $0.99 (regular $2.99). Fans of time management games like Hell’s Kitchen and Sally’s Sauna will likely want to check this one out as well. The game averages 4 stars in the App Store including over 900 5-star ratings. Excellent game at an excellent price. Chocolate Shop Frenzy is a 99-cent download from the iTunes App Store.

The hunger of Tom McFeely

Tribune.ie July 12, 2009From hunger-striking republican to millionaire property developer, the life of Tom McFeely has not been without controversy. In his first ever interview, he tells Suzanne Breen how he went from ruin to richesHe arrived in Dublin on a summer’s evening, fresh from the hell of the H-Blocks. On the blanket protest, he’d been beaten black and blue by prison officers. He endured 53 days on hunger-strike, then watched his comrades die. His marriage broke up when he was in jail.O

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