Mary Phillips-Sandy lives here.

This is a concept I’ve been thinking about for several years, and given modern technology it seems like something that should be possible: an ever-changing map of a city marked by smells, not street names, although I suppose you’d need an underlying street map to make annotation easier. This morning, for example, I bicycled along [...]

I had another one of those moments this week, where someone made reference to a popular television show and I looked like an idiot because I was unfamiliar with said television show — “George Jefferson? I haven’t met him,” those were my exact words, and they were met with incredulous laughter. Parents: you may think [...]

Speaking of blogs and blogs about things, this evening I learned that my uncle — who is my role model in just about every respect — has been, for some time, contributing to an anonymous group blog. This is may be more interesting if you know that my uncle is an actor whose work you’ve [...]

Item! Carrie Tryharder is running a sweet summer contest, and you have until Friday, July 3 to enter. Details are as follows: The task: Turn this spam headline into something entertaining: Police end funereal striptease acts. The format: Short story, comic, photo essay, pop tune, whatever, as long as it is bloggable The prize: A [...]

Things like this and this will now (again) be found here, twice daily. So what will become of the Nut House? I don’t know; maybe I’ll start writing about my feelings.

Developments in the burgeoning Portland* blogroll, of which this Nut House is** a part: a tempest flares and is calmed (?) over at the anonymous Point (who is this fractious critic?). Meanwhile, someone or something who is obviously (?) a pseudonym is reviewing baked goods on the city’s preeminent music blog (??). (Related, will I [...]

I’m going to be on the Blog Talk Radio program “Unusuable Signal” tomorrow night, 11 p.m. EST, to discuss the economy, comedy, Ben Bernanke’s eerie resemblance to a walrus, etc. You can listen to the whole thing through your computer, and I believe you can also call in to ask questions/make walrus noises. Click here [...]

This is someone Facebook just suggested I “may know.” I did not click any further, for fear of rending the space-time continuum.

Let us hope that whoever registered this domain a few weeks ago plans to build a vast online repository of M.Ba’s “wingnut moments.” Let us hope that’s all it is. Speaking of which, have you noticed what happens if you visit PalinBachmann2012.com?