Wes Phillips

What do paleontologists do?

When they're in the field with their crew?

The digger when he's failing?

The geologist when she's glum?

The site carpenter who's wailing?

From nailing

His thumb?

When they're beset and besmirched

The folk most involved in research

However do they manage

To shed their weary lot?

Oh, what do paleontologists do

We do not?

One fan figured it should have taken two minutes, tops.

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And his mom, of course—and the upcoming movie. The Virginia Quarterly, which is rapidly becoming my favorite periodical, published Ellroy's afterword to the new edition of The Black Dahlia.

The Economist tells us something we already know. Wait a minute . . .

Yes, we speak of things that matter,

With words that must be said,

"Can analysis be worthwhile?"

"Is the theater really dead?"

You take a 600 Hz tone and adjust the amplitude and phase relationships among three speakers. My buddy Jeff swears he saw this done in Jersey with just two loudspeakers, but I think he was just listening at such high volume that his eyeballs were compressing.

Secrets of the orgasm: "As orgasm lasts much longer in women than in men, it is easier to study using PET—male ejaculation is over so quickly it is hard to get a reliable reading."