So, evidently, if you show up for a party at a major record label in an eight-year-old Napster t-shirt, some employees of the label do not take that in the playful and ironic spirit in …

On my desk right now, I have a mug of tea, a pencil, a pen, a Sharpie, some business cards, a box of paper clips, two sticky-note pads, an empty snack bowl, and a plastic …

My old job is passing away.Starting July 10, no Cody's patron will drift toward the cookbooks in the middle of the afternoon, when the smells of baking from Bay King next door make him hungry. …

I asked, in our incredibly hot apartment, "Why are only some of your [shirt] buttons buttoned?" Response: "Oh, I take life as it comes."

I do not have an army of rights and permissions lawyers. I didn't when I was devising a curriculum and teaching a class, and I don't now that I'm writing a column. I bet lots …

In which I quote Loving v. Virginia and list off marriage perks. I'm lucky. Narrowly speaking, I'm lucky because New York's waiting period is short; New Hampshire makes you wait three days. More broadly, I'm …

Now that The West Wing, Enterprise, and the best seasons of Good Eats have finished, and House has gone on summer hiatus, what shall Leonard and I watch? He doesn't care for The Daily Show …

"What is more dangerous: fear or arrogance?" Answer: They both suck. What you prefer: a poke in the left or the right eye? If you prefer, I'll take arrogance, at least arrogant people have the …

Temperatures this weekend will hit the mid-eighties. Makes me want to carry an ice-water bath around town with me.

The most permissive laws ever are not good enough for the Bush Administration. To boil it down mathematically, if you had an arrangement by which you could f*** other women, then three days later tell …