Heather Havrilesky wrote a light trend piece on guys who care about their appearance that I mildly enjoyed until she started using the second person and the plural first person to castigate these men. I …
How is this fair? The day after I clean the kitchen, I see a mouse. Now I'm stuffing towels in the cracks under my bedroom door as though waiting for firefighters to rescue me from …
Drippy both emotionally and because the stories happen in the rain. Did the girls feel lucky, grateful, or relieved? Did they share a quick glance before getting into my car, deciding whether I was a …
Daniel Davies uses grad school principles to talk about policy. I would put that better except that I've just realized that I have overextended myself in promising to lend DVDs of Will Franken's performances to …
Will Franken's new website tells me that he's performing two discrete shows this Saturday, the 30th. I tell you that I'm going to both shows. They take place at The Purple Onion in North Beach, …
One awful customer can be such a drag. Soon! Soon it will all be over! I'm not being all "sweet, sweet oblivion in a bottle!" Rather, I'm saying that this incident only increases my Craigslist …
Recently I have less and less patience for disrespectful or snarky or dumb blathering. I put on my headphones at work less for the music and more to drown out particular people's incredibly useless yakkety-yak. …
Flea talks about bravery and Brendan gives blood. Gordon Atkinson is making the kind of decision that you have to make if you're going to give yourself up to the writing. Chain the wolf to …
