Contributing Writers
Besides the articles by the Brothers Redcloud (Chefelf, Paul, Laura, Jacques, and Yahtzee), L&E publishes articles donated by friends and foes alike. More about each writer can be found on the Credits page.
All the Articles by L&E Contributing Writers
12-24-04 Deck the Halls with Christmas Carol Ratings: Part II: The continuation of Papa Redcloud's Christmas carol assessments. This week: J-Z. (Papa Redcloud)
12-17-04 Deck the Halls with Christmas Carol Ratings: Part I: Papa Redcloud turns his formidable having opinions about things talents to a consideration of 52 Christmas Carols, in alphabetical order. This week: A-I! (Papa Redcloud)
2-20-04 How To Be The Biggest Idiot Alive: Heccubus presents another handy guide to becoming part of what's wrong with the world today. (Heccubus)
2-16-04 The Return of Sauron: A conversation that took place sometime in late 2003. (J.M. Hoffman)
2-6-04 Mario: The secret hidden tale of intrigue behind the world's most famous fictional plumber. (Zach)
1-22-04 Overrated: Diamonds: Mama Redcloud continues the Overrated tradition with an exploration of the mythos of diamonds. (Mama Redcloud)
12-31-03 Videotape Living Will: Lefty's premiere flash film involves funny, funny coma humor. (Lefty)
12-18-03 Questions for Anne Rice: A book review and public service announcement in one! (J.M. Hoffman)
12-12-03 Meet the Staff: Slade: Slade tackles the tough nineteen questions. (Slade)
12-10-03 Overrated: The Use of Classical Music in Film Scores: To the delight of the high-brow and highfalutin at heart, Papa Redcloud returns for the second day in a row with a look into the history of film music. (Papa Redcloud)
12-5-03 My Fool is a Crock: My fool is a crock - So apparently there really are consequences if you don't write a My Fool is a Crock story. I finished this one as soon as the bleeding stopped. (J.M. Hoffman)
11-28-03 Meet the Staff: J.M. Hoffman: J.M. Hoffman tackles the tough questions. (J.M. Hoffman)
11-21-03 Anthony's Pizza of World Domination: Wherein I discover a conspiracy involving a Bin Laden deputy, bumper stickers and pepperoni. (J.M. Hoffman)
11-17-03 Boohbahs on Parade: An expose on Boohbahs. You know, Boohbas. (Zach)
11-10-03 How To Become a Redcloud Brother: A Q & A that raises more Q's than it does answer A's. (J.M. Hoffman)
10-27-03 The Candidate: A movie about things that happen to a candidate. (J.M. Hoffman)
10-13-03 Old School Gaming Quiz (Part 2): You think you're so smart about your video games don't you? Part 1 was nothing more than a warmup! This is the real deal! (Slade)
10-1-03 Cyberchase: A Review: Tasha watches PBS math cartoons so we don't have to. (Tasha Silver)
9-30-03 Uncle Pip in Wintertime: A story that's been passed down through generations of Redclouds, as long as there have been Redclouds. And that's a long time. Our line is of kings! Pepin the Short was a Redcloud! (Papa Redcloud)
9-29-03 The Day I Watched Game Show Network: The face of true evil reveals itself. (Amber-Nicole)
9-11-03 Waiting in a Parking Lot: A Screenplay. (J.M. Hoffman)
9-3-03 My Fool is a Crock: Rory, of Rory fame, sets his long-awaited pen of Roritude to the holy parchment of "My Fool is a Crock" stories. (Rory)
9-2-03 Asking for a Raise: ... Or more accurately, how not to. (J.M. Hoffman)
9-1-03 Old School Gaming Quiz (Part 1): A simple quiz to test your knowledge of the video games of yesteryear. Well, to test your knowledge of Slade's opinions on the games of yesteryear. (Slade)
8-14-03 My Fool is a Crock: Zach guessed that we were just lying on the floor in a state of mental angst, hoping and praying that some guy we didn't know named Zach would write up a crappy My Fool is a Crock story and email it to us. Zach guessed right! (Zach)
8-12-03 My Fool is a Crock: They're still trickling in. Jake takes a stab at the world's most popular literary style. (Jake)
8-6-03 Bears! Musical Arrangement: Lefty, creator of L&E sister site Polymorph, sings selected tunes from Bears!, Laura's critically disdained yet strangely life-affirming musical about bears, and Joey Lawrence. (mp3, 1412k) (Lefty)
8-4-03 Heccubus' Guide To Guessing Your Way Through College: A five step guide to being all that you can be, with half the effort. (Heccubus)
7-29-03 Problems I Have with the Big Bang Theory: Srmoore, believing the Big Bang Theory is too far-fetched, proffers a slightly more believable theory involving advanced galactic civilizations and Charlize Theron. (srmoore)
7-28-03 In the Kitchen: An attempt to make macaroni and cheese becomes cause for sorrow and heartache. (Jake)
7-24-03 Caolan's Birthday Movie: Paul's favorite girlfriend delivers a largely nonsensical, occasionally mean-spirited, consistently sloppy Flash tidbit that was originally used (in part) as a party invitation, and which appears exactly one week and one day before it will be relevant. Bon appetit! (PS: Did you know that Paul and his girlfriend have the same birthday?) (Caolan)
7-15-03 Jake's Future (This Week, part 1): Everyone needs inflated dreams that can never be realized. Why not throw in orgies while you're at it? (Jake)
7-10-03 Overrated: The Declaration of Independence: When in the course of human snore... (Papa Redcloud)
7-7-03 The Reign of the iloo: A grim prediction of what the future holds. (J.M. Hoffman)
7-2-03 Boots: Mama Redcloud sounds off on the difficulty of purchasing appropriate footwear on the Internet. (Mama Redcloud)
7-1-03 My Fool is a Crock: A story that will make you throw back your head and howl skyward, "LITERALLY!!!" (Mr. Fabulous)
6-26-03 Jake: An Introduction: A recent entry from a reader of the site who dislikes human contact so much that he's practically a Redcloud brother already! (Jake)
6-24-03 Posto!: The name of this post-apocalyptic Bingo game is not meant to imply that the author liked "The Postman", though the part with Tom Petty was pretty cool. (Chris)
6-12-03 The American Crème: Pixy takes an in depth look at the past present and future of Oreo cookies. (Pixy)
6-11-03 Overrated: Hamlet (Part 2): "Shuffle off this mortal coil"? Honestly. It sounds like what you do between the Mashed Potato and the Twist. (Papa Redcloud)
6-10-03 Overrated: Hamlet (Part 1): Has anyone ever read it for fun? (Papa Redcloud)
5-13-03 Consumer Alert: Voice Recognition Software: Bless its little heart, it tries. (Sister Wendy)
4-10-03 Reductio Ad: Let's Have Even More War on Television: How we can mine more entertainment out of human suffering. (Papa Redcloud)
3-18-03 Overrated: War: War! What is it good for? Being overrated, apparently. (Papa Redcloud)
3-5-03 A Day in the Life of Laura: Nick's partly retaliatory article chronicles Laura's average day. (Nick)
3-4-03 The Gang Scene in Detroit- An Insider's View: Reader and Motor City resident Mr. Fabulous expounds on some of the lesser-known gangs of Detroit. (Mr. Fabulous)
11-27-02 Nationally Meritless in America: Laura kicks off "College Crunch" by bitching about the National Merit Scholarship Competition, and Henry provides a delightful essay about why he should win the money. If I were in charge, I'd give it to him. (Henry and Laura)
11-13-02 Overrated: Ancient Egypt: There are pyramids in South America tons taller than anything in Egypt. (Papa Redcloud)
10-29-02 Overrated: Citizen Kane: Orson Welles was in the Transformers movie, for God's sakes. (Papa Redcloud)
9-17-02 Kat Gets Sent to the Principal's Office: The continuing academic difficulties of the girl that Jacques got suspended. (Kat)
9-11-02 Overrated: The Mona Lisa: Papa Redcloud explains why the world's most famous painting sucks. (Papa Redcloud)
8-27-02 The Bad Guy Adventure: A treatment for Star Wars Episode III. (Slade)
8-21-02 The Next Wave of Sprint PCS Ads: Nick ponders the future of a cell phone ad campaign. (Nick)
8-13-02 Overrated: Beethoven's Fifth: Resident culture analyst Papa Redcloud tells us why we shouldn't have to like it after all. (Papa Redcloud)
8-5-02 Summer Camp: A Love Story: Because Wet Hot American Summer only told part of the story... (Jen)
7-23-02 The Day I Killed Bill Gates with an Axe!: Fan fiction about the ultimate D&D marathon session. (Rory)
7-10-02 Nick and Laura's Prom Adventure: The Adventure Continues: An actual play-by-play account of the Classical High School Senior Prom, as seen by two jackasses. (Laura and Nick)
6-26-02 Laura and Nick's Prom Adventure: The Adventure Begins: A makeover story. Includes lots of exciting photos! (Nick and Laura)
6-12-02 Akimbo!: What? Another Papa Redcloud article?! The wise dad-guy of the Redcloud family returns with some more thoughts about English words. This week: akimbo. (Papa Redcloud)
6-4-02 Casting a Rueful Eye upon Literature: Papa Redcloud discourses on the word "rueful" and why so much of literature sucks. (Papa Redcloud)
5-24-02 Jim The Fish: A wonderful tale inspired by Yahtzee's ramblings in a dreamlike state. (Yahtzee & Rhubarb)
5-8-02 Do You Assume Too Much About Other People?: Find out in this new quiz by Nick! (Nick)
4-23-02 How Long Would it Take to Kill Bill Gates with an Axe?: Finally, proof that Bill Gates is the baddest mofo ever! (Paul, Nate, Rory)
3-18-02 Some Much-Needed Help for George Lucas: Because it's just possible that Episode II can be improved. (Nick)
3-12-02 A Consumer Alert: Watch out! Those sites that reunite you with your old classmates may not improve the quality of your old classmates! (Sister Wendy)
1-9-02 Some Questions for Buffy: Papa Redcloud, the wise sage of the Redcloud family, returns with thoughts on the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (Papa Redcloud)
10-30-01 O Canada - a sequel of sorts: Who's more exciting than Laura? Paul. And what's more exciting than Japan? Canada. That's why our new choose-your-own-adventure travelogue is our most gripping yet. (Caolan)
8-31-01 Smells Like Newbury Comics: It's a wicked good article! (Papa Redcloud)
8-17-01 Velcro and Microwave Ovens: Raka discovers that one is not, in fact, the loneliest number: it's 8! Let's all laugh at 8. (Raka)
8-1-01 A Flattering Proposal: A reader response to Laura's wedding article. (Laura and Raka)
6-13-01 Girls' Zone Fashion Page: Actually an essay by Rory. (Girls' Zone)
5-25-01 Brothers Redcloud Cuteness Vote: Lance: This is the last one, we promise. (Lance)
5-11-01 Angel Force II: The Sidekick: Rory adds the finishing touch to Angel Force that will propel it to greatness. (Rory)
4-13-01 Rory's Controversial Political Cartoon: Rory takes an enigmatic stand against censorship. (Rory)
1-12-01 The Empress is Dying: An unfinished drama about an empress, and a princess, and some jam, and a boy who looks like a toad. (Caolan)
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