Constrained writing is when an author decides to limit the words, grammar, or style they use. The most common form of constrained writing is certain forms of poetry, when the meter and the rhymes follow a set pattern. Bu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/06/03/The-Weirdness-of-Constrained-Writing/Why would you name a car "Raincoat"? Because it was small enough to drive through your front door, so you don't have to get out and walk in the rain! DAF founder Hub van Doorne designed this car with just that idea in mi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/06/03/The-DAF-Mobile-Raincoat-Could-Fit-Through-a-Door/I'm glad you asked!Cutter Wood has a new book out titled Earthly Materials: Journeys through Our Bodies' Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations. It examines the science of our excretory systems. An exer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/06/03/How-Much-Will-the-Average-Person-Poop-and-Pee-During-a-Lifetime/Singer Michael Geier, better known as his clownish persona Puddles Pity Party, was a friend of the late Paul Reubens--now gone from us nearly two years. In his latest music video, Puddles offers a melancholy version of t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/06/03/Puddles-Pity-Party-Sings-the-Theme-to-Pee-wees-Playhouse/These Dominican friars take their name from a line by Southern writer Flannery O'Connor, who described herself as a "hillbilly Thomist" -- a woman of the Deep South steeped in the thought of theologian Thomas Aquinas.Bas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/06/03/The-Hillbilly-Thomists-Friars-Who-Play-Bluegrass/
