Death Row Diaries, Part II Can watercolors change how you perceive a killer? Do murderers have a harder time sitting for portraits? TMN’s contributing illustrator Danny Gregory brings us a second installment of death row portraits.

Testimonial from a Moderately Satisfied Customer of Singles Canoes Dating is impossible: Your friends have only so many friends to set you up with, co-workers are off-limits, and online services are icky and cold. Luckily singles can now turn to Singles Canoes, a new service we hadn’t heard of until Bob Powers clued us in.

Credit In The Straight World In bad economic times, it’s hard to be picky about your job. Ex-Screw editor Ivan Lerner is still writing, though now about petroleum, not porn. Colin Brayton reports.

Oof This past summer Oof visited New York City from Osaka. Having never been here before, she spent her days exploring, camera in hand, recording a personal log of New York City with an eye to the everyday (but hardly ordinary) people and things that surround us. And at the end of the summer she stayed up all night covering a friend’s kitchen table in tiny strips of pink tape. Andrew Womack interviews her.