• The converse of Engrish? The “crazy diarrhea” Kanji tattoo. (Via Boing Boing.)

• Former Paris Review editor George Plimpton submits a 3,000-word essay from the Beyond.

• Michael Schaub may be the funniest man alive.*

* I’d say “funniest person,” but Dana, of “fortunately, fruitflies can’t tell you about how their novel has reached an interesting stage” fame, lives.