All Things To All People
Longer form pieces.
Every so often, I just try to figure out exactly how they thought those 1950s Reducing Machines, the kind where you stand on it and a belt goes around and shakes your stomach, would actually, uh, work. Well, to be fair, the…
Image via Wikipedia It’s really weird. Not having depth perception, I mean. Well, it IS weird, but I’m used to it, since I’ve pretty much had it for 30 years. So, yeah. But what I’m talking about is how I was talking…
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Like everyone, I tend to come up with a lot of ideas that I never get around to doing. Sometimes out of laziness, sometimes because I can’t figure out how to make it work, and sometimes,…
Cover of Tommy Boy (Holy Schnike Edition) Like everyone, I tend to come up with a lot of ideas that I never get around to doing. Sometimes out of laziness, sometimes because I can’t figure out how to make it work, and…
Image via Wikipedia So, I’ve had this sort of thing happen before. And, as I expected, in that case, writing about it made it go away — which was kinda bittersweet in that case. In this case, however, I’m kinda hoping it…
Image via Wikipedia What is wrong with Indian food in LA? Seriously — it’s practically a trope in sitcoms and whatnot that if someone goes to eat Indian, they’re going to have a massive amount of gastro-intestinal distress. Mainly, lots of diarrhea. This…
Image by panduh via Flickr How many times has this happened to you? You go out in the middle of the work week, mostly because of a social obligation. Maybe your friend is performing, and it’s at a bar, and hell, you’re…
Image via Wikipedia I don’t like the term fag. I really, really don’t, and while I could go into the philosphical and anthropological reasons why you shouldn’t use it as an insult, I’ll go the PERSONAL STORY route because I think…
Image via Wikipedia For a short time to make extra money, my mother would do customer follow-up calls for a firm specializing in these. What they’d do, is they’d get clients from all around the country, who would send them lists of…
Image via Wikipedia And now, the answers to the popular quiz game that’s sweeping the nation! How did YOU fare?