I’ve recently become well acquainted with the various theories of how to get a baby to please, for the love of God, sleep through the night. The best of them seem to boil down to five rules that are good to bear in mind for us all, really. 1. Don’t fall asleep eating or rocking. […]
April 29, 2013
The George W. Bush Presidential library opened last week, and the Good Dog, Carl jokes flowed like wine. But it wasn’t all people thought. Some of the surprises awaiting people? Justification For Invading Iraq mad libs! When you reach the end of the first chapter of any book in the library, there’s a “Ta-da!” chime, confetti, […]
April 25, 2013
Whoa. Whoa. Just… just hold the phone a second… Someone is looking for people to colonize Mars and NO ONE TOLD ME?? Yes, the company Mars One is screening applicants to undergo a rigorous training and then make the 9-month trip to Mars and establish a permanent settlement on the red planet. And I am […]
April 22, 2013
By now, odds are, you’ve seen or heard about Dove’s “Real Beauty” sketches, in which women are asked to describe themselves for a sketch artist, and then compare those drawings to descriptions of them by another person. If not, here’s the video: It’s an interesting campaign, and one that clearly took a lot of time […]
April 18, 2013
Last weekend I was in a show that ran 3 nights. (that was the plan – it didn’t whimper out after 3 nights…) It was a bunch of performers telling stories from their lives; I wrote a little about it before, and my wanting to be liked by the cool kid. People had been pretty […]
April 16, 2013
I don’t write about it very often here, but I love running. I genuinely love it. I love what it does for me, sure – physically and mentally (my wife compares, rightly, the change in my mental energy after a run to how the dogs are after a big, long hike) – but I just […]
April 5, 2013
When I was a teenager, there was the massive tome Roger Ebert’s Movie Home Companion. It made me want to see Taxi Driver, and Casablanca, and The Godfather, and It Happened One Night; not because it seemed like you had to if you wanted to claim to like “great” movies, but because he made them […]
April 4, 2013
Times it is okay, and not okay, to use the term “Rock Star” to describe someone: “Sarah, you were a rock star at organizing that spaghetti-feed!” Not okay. If you are involved with a spaghetti feed, you have ceased to be a star of rock. “You got that paperwork done, sorted and filed already? You’re […]
The Byronic Man 
May 2, 2013
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