Grabbing Hands
I know this video of the dad playing Depeche Mode with his kids using rinky-dink and improvised instruments has been making the rounds, and I was highly resistant to watching it…until now. Ok, it’s very […]
Convalescing/Convulsing
Yeah, I know this was probably a sickness-related barf (do spinal injuries make you puke?) but I like to believe that it was induced by the inner turmoil of realizing that he will longer being […]
Cyborgs vs. Hedonists
Even though my xoJane.com It Happened to Me article (hey, I've had the urge to write one since day one and the topic presented itself to me) is ostensibly eating-related, it's more me-related and oddly, […]
Old Old News
That president John Tyler (born in 1790) has living grandchildren may be the ultimate in Old Dadness. But the whole recent media discovery is kind of charming, so no judging. Someone needs to get these […]
Provenance
An astute reader (yes, I have them) not only found the photo of "Isloation" but noted that it got seven bids and sold for $51.10 I see that the print was only made in an […]
Artistic Endeavors
Very occasionally I will vanity Google myself. It's pretty rare that anything unexpected turns up. I don't care so much about my so-called online reputation; I'm more interested in funny weirdness and I was rewarded […]
The Middle Ages: 35
"Later, during a time when there was no room in her thoughts for anything but remorseless obsessive recollection, a perverse desire to debase the tenderness she had felt for him led her to insist to […]
Fat Cats Welcome
As much as I love getting out of NYC, I don’t think I’m cut out for traveling (even driving to NJ makes me throw up half time, and not metaphorically). I felt like crap the […]
I Didn’t Know I Was Forty
I called it! Well, sort of. In October I speculated between two unknown 40-year-old Asian actresses, Emy Coligado and Junie Hoang, being the Jane Doe suing Amazon for revealing her true age and ruining her […]
S.A.D.
Ok, I'm not interested in bath houses, even modern luxurious ones, but the intro to this post reinforces that I was not imaging the dank, soul-draining properties of the German capital this time of year: […]