Eric Scheske

Issue IX A Groundhog Day issue. On this auspicious occasion, we remember the prognosticating groundhog's vicious-but-forgotten cousin, the hodag. The hodag was a dreadful and strong beast that terrorized the logging camps of the nineteenth century. It had great iron teeth, a long flat tail of

Issue VII Lucky VII. We hope, anyway, thinking we could break that 1,000,000 reader barrier with this issue. It'd be a coup, seeing as readership is less than 500 at this point. Anyway, it's not our place to disprove numerology, only to laugh at

Issue VI We plod forward. In the grips of the Great Lakes' winter buffets, we have nothing better to do: the lawn needs no cutting, the golf courses are three feet under, the lakes are frozen, our Speedos are even more out of place than usual. And we don&

Issue V Welcome to the first issue of 2005 (and our fifth overall). Nothing much has changed since last year, with the exception of an exhilarating attack on our editor's mental faculties on December 31st. Our quality weekly tradition now spans two years. A Stab of Light Since

Issue IV Welcome to an abbreviated version of TWE. We plan to return to our full plate with the new year. Drinking with Toddlers I love playing with my six children and I look forward to drinking beer with them in some not-too-distant future. But we're

Issue III Cleverness is scarce, but compliments are up. So we plow forward, a glass of merlot in one hand, a flagon of ale in the other, a keyboard in the third. Welcome to Issue III of TWE. I'm Glad My Dad Didn't Play Darth Vader

Welcome Back Glad you came back for Week II. We received compliments on the first issue. Here's a tall glass of Christmas spirits to hopes of another successful run at this humble enterprise. Kinsey and the Beast In light of the renewed interest in Alfred "Batman'

Welcome Welcome to the inaugural issue of The Wednesday Eudemon. If you read it and (i) smirk once, (ii) nod once, and (iii) learn something new, I'm gratified. If you do just two of the three, I'm content like Meatloaf: two out of three ain'

"Massachusetts has the lowest divorce rate in the country at 2.4 divorces per 1,000 inhabitants. Texas has a divorce rate of 4.1." That observation was made by Andrew Sullivan, the rabidly gay-is-great ex-Catholic, but otherwise splendid writer. He goes on to observe

This blog is changing. Starting December 8th, it'll become a "weekly reader's source" (the term "on-line magazine" would be too bold). Each issue will present something fun and something fine, something stolen and something mine. Some items will be old. Some