The Byronic Man is a certified astrologer.  He has a Masters degree in Zodiacry from the University of Nehru, and a PhD in Astronomy and Astro-Physics from The Louvre. Capricorn: Today you will meet a Pisces and fall wildly in love and live passionately, and ecstatically.  Unless you miss your opportunity. Talk to every person […]

I was flipping through a magazine earlier and it had this article with several New York movers & shakers who have discovered wearing jeans.  Even to work.  I know!  Jeans!  Just…. wearing them! I realize this is a little more unusual in the Northeast.  I wore jeans once in Massachusetts and people looked at me […]

Well, it’s Sunday, and it’s time to announce the winner of the caption contest, and for another Weekly Question of the Week*! (* title does not intend to suggest weekly appearance) First was the caption contest, which I probably ruined by telling the back story of Muschi and Mauschen – the cat and bear who […]

A couple of weeks ago the Romney campaign, admitting that things had been rocky, announced its intentions to revamp its campaign.  Sure enough, since then Romney’s campaign has been in the headlines nearly every day. Now, revealed for the first time here at The Byronic Man, we present the memo outlining the revised plan for […]

Elegance At Home, With Your Host: The Byronic Man!

Okay.  So.  Well.  The political conventions are over and, I’ll be honest, I was a little hurt that neither party made me their presidential candidate for the upcoming election.  I know the two main candidates have gotten a lot of hype and media attention, and I’ve decided that the problem is that I haven’t made […]

Well, the political conventions are over, and at last the great national question of who – who – will get the nominations for the two parties is settled.  Now we should take a break from all this serious political debate and complex rhetorical analysis of global issues and take time once again for a caption […]

Here is a completely true, unembellished (okay – there’s one embellishment.  See if you can spot it!) account of our attempts thus far to procure a breast pump through our insurance company, who we’ll just call Federated Kafkaesque Insurance.  A company who appears to believe very strongly that there’s not much you can’t just “walk […]