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Now Enrolling: Dunce Academy

About 11 years ago I had a horrendous falling out with my best friend. A week ago we unexpectedly  patched things up and picked up right where we left off: a collaboration in stupidity. That week was very good for us both, and good for the Internet as well, because today the doors of Dunce [...]

March 15, 2011 READ MORE →

My New Blog Is Alive And Needs You

A lot has changed since I began writing World’s Strongest Librarian in April of 2009. It was originally going to be 99% fitness. That has obviously changed. It changed because I didn’t want to write about fitness every day. As the readers began to pour in, most of them weren’t here for the fitness stuff [...]

July 8, 2010 READ MORE →

Kim Jong Il Needs A Kettlebell, Or: I Refuse To Write For The Search Engines

Seo Experiment! My original title for this article was going to be “How Megan Fox topless photos and make money online and cheap viagra and cheap cialis helped the Boston Celtics defeat Tiger Woods in a SUPER HARDCORE cereal contest of eating TriXXX.” But that would have been silly and the story would have defied [...]

June 15, 2010 READ MORE →

One Blogger Who Needs To Blog More

Squat RX is written by a man named Boris Bachmann, a school teacher in Iowa. Boris wrote a guest post here once in which he battled a blizzard. His blog is ostensibly about training and fitness, but Boris incorporates some very profound thinking into everything he does. He is also kind and generous with his [...]

May 29, 2010 READ MORE →

People I Need To Thank, Blogs You Need To Read!

When I released The Knot, I vowed to bestow glory and honor on anyone who bought a signed copy. When it hit me that I had vowed to something a bit beyond my station, I then vowed to do the next best thing: Give everyone who bought a signed copy and had a website or [...]

May 26, 2010 READ MORE →

How to Blog if You’re Not as Witty as Your Favorite Blogger

Guest Post by Corbett Barr I have to confess, I’m more than a little envious of bloggers (ahem, like the guy who started this blog) who write effortlessly with wit, humor and sarcasm. I would love to spice up my writing by being a little funnier or a better storyteller, but I haven’t yet found [...]

April 24, 2010 READ MORE →

World’s Strongest Librarian’s 12 Most Popular Posts And The Stories And Updates Behind Them

I’ve done a lot of writing in the past year. I’ve written posts that I thought would be well-received and pretty much flopped.  I’ve written posts that I thought were so-so that wound up being extremely popular. A lot of people have asked me where I get my ideas. Basically, I get through each day [...]

March 19, 2010 READ MORE →

The Best New Blog On The Web That I Am One Half Of

Last December, my youngest reader sent me a copy of his masterpiece, The Book Of Sharks. About a week ago, we brainstormed about what he should write next. Out of that brainstorming session came the greatest idea of all time. Ethan and I now have our own blog. He has kindly agreed that I can [...]

March 3, 2010 READ MORE →

The Human Conversation In Keywords

Speak to us, O Google Analytics, modern day oracle! People find this blog in a lot of different ways.  Few are more moving or more hilarious than looking up the phrases and keywords that someone types into Google which eventually lead them to World’s Strongest Librarian. Some of the phrases are written by people looking [...]

February 5, 2010 READ MORE →

Come Introduce Your Blog

Howdy reader.  I reckon that after all this time, I know why most of you come here to read.  You are one of a wildly diverse group I can either refer to as The World’s Strongest Librarians or The Loyal Weird.  You may choose.  But the point is, I now know why most of you [...]

January 25, 2010 READ MORE →