Category: Crazy People

  • Despair is natural, isn’t it?

    Some years ago I had a course on the early twentieth century British novel.  For the class I was introduced for the first time to Virginia Woolf’s work.  We read To the Lighthouse, which I loved so much I began taking her other books out of the library and reading them despite having to go…

  • The Astronaut’s Rival

    Oh. my. god.  I cannot believe how ridiculously absurd this story is.  I mean, I know it’s serious and all, someone apparently driving 1000 miles in diapers so she wouldn’t have to stop and go to the bathroom in order to get to her victim’s house on time, but the steel mallet?  the buck knife? the BB…