Macaque & Hen: B.F.F.
Earlier this year I was lamenting how I couldn’t find a Malaysian newspaper article about a monkey befriending a chicken that we brought back from Asia last year. James is such a pack rat that […]
It All Depends On How You Define Influential
Personally (and hey, this is Project Me) it would’ve made more sense if I’d written the best Latin American food piece in today’s NY Post but for reasons unknown to me I was assigned the […]
HisSpace
Over the years I’ve Googled my fair share of well and lesser knowns but it rarely occurs to me to hit up the MySpaces, Friendsters and Facebooks of the web. But their reach is undeniable […]
Is it Possible to Deep-fry Reese’s Pieces?
I was just thinking how ideal it would be having Fridays off and not starting work until 4:30pm on Mondays, if I had someplace to go away to for the weekend. But seeing as I […]
The Un-Funny Years
Free time can do strange things to people. Some might seize the extra hours and start a side business or hey, launch a new career. Me, I visit the past. Since I’ve recently started working […]
Drop Box Dilemma
Do you know what is sad? That I don’t seem capable of reading an entire work of contemporary nonfiction. (Lengthy books used to be a badge of honor. Who didn’t feel like hot shit for […]
Idle Handheld DVD Players are the Devil’s Playground
Last night I was filling in for someone on the night shift where you leave around 11:30pm or so. I didn’t really mind it because I didn’t have to work today. But the library is […]
Back in Black (no thanks to The Gap or Audrey Hepburn)
Let me point out (last week I honest to goodness said, “let me get…” when ordering a margarita. I have no idea how that horrible NYC-ism crept into my vocabulary. When I start swapping ax […]
The Gay Divorcee
I love getting accidentally sucked into '70s New York movies. Late Saturday night, trying to stave off drunken nausea (I swear, beer doesn't normally put me over the edge but Oktoberfest quantities may have done […]
Tough as Nails
Though I claim to not understand emotionally induced vomiting, I can kind of see how you might get a little sick to your stomach when about to be blown away execution style and have your […]