I still have to mop the toilet to earn my allowance, and I usually blow it on comic books and bubble gum. My favorite comic right now is Legendary Steven Johnson and the Space Squad -- I couldn't believe the cliffhanger at the end of the last issue!

You'll never guess what my buddy Nate McGowan showed me after school today. He had this magazine that he said his dad keeps hidden under a mattress, and he totally stole it. So, he opens the magazine and there's this big fold-out poster in the middle, and... The poster was this big list of instructions for remixing iron filings. I don't know why you'd hide a magazine like that, and I'm not sure why I was so disappointed. Go fig.