Archive for September 2011
Why we don’t own an iPad
Prying her away from her grandmother’s is hard enough.
Read MoreFootball in every direction
While sitting in the seats of Gillette Stadium yesterday, watching the Patriots defeat the Chargers, I had the following options viewing available to me: 1. Watch the game on the field 2. Watch the game on either of the two enormous monitors located in each end zone 3. Watch the actual telecast of the game…
Read MoreThis is the best they could do?
Professional Building? Seriously? They couldn’t name the building after someone slightly deserving? Just for the hell of it? A former President perhaps? A war hero? An Eagle Scout? A suffragette? The owner’s dog? Wouldn’t the Fido T. Bone Professional Building still sound better than nothing at all?
Read MoreHopefully there’s more to his marketing strategy than this
Does Reno really think he’s going to generate business with this advertising strategy? Is he wondering why the business card he tacked into the corkboard above the urinal at the local watering hole isn’t producing greater results?
Read MoreGay fraternal lovers?
The photographer at last night’s wedding asked my DJ partner if he and I were brothers. We get this a lot. My partner is just a lesser version of me. Ten minutes later, she asked him if we were a couple. We have never gotten this question before. How does someone go from guessing brothers…
Read MoreChew-chew-chew
There are tree-chewing beavers on my daughter’s favorite television show, Peep and the Big Wide World. Apparently they have made a big impression on her.
Read MoreShortcomings and Flaws: 2011
A reader recently accused me of being materialistic after I wrote about my lack of a favorite number, specifically criticizing me for saying that when it comes to salary, my favorite number is the largest number possible. He wrote: Again, outrageous. You say that your against materialistic and you mentioned in a recent Jersey Shore…
Read MoreGrocery stores and courthouses: Excellent places for first dates
Someone on Twitter recently asked for first date ideas, and it got me thinking about some of the first date staples from my youth. Two in particular. When I was in my teens and early twenties, I would often take first dates to the Stop & Shop grocery store in town. We would walk the…
Read MoreDodging sleep at an early age
From an article in the Times on napping in children: Dr. Jenni was one of the authors of a large study, published in 2003 in the journal Pediatrics, which measured sleep duration across childhood. He and his colleagues documented the decrease in daytime napping and the consolidation of nighttime sleep as a group of Swiss…
Read MoreDinner will never be so fun again!
One of my friends is yearning for the day when her son will sit still in a restaurant and finally eat like a regular human being. It will happen sooner than she thinks, I assured her. Just like someday my daughter will just sit in a chair and eat her meal without getting up, squirming…
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