“The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever”
Normally I would post a link to a story like this on Facebook and Twitter with a brief suggestion that you read it. But I can’t risk you not reading…
Wedding reboot: Matt and Elysha trivia
My wife and I will celebrate our sixth wedding anniversary later this month. A couple of days ago, I was writing about the hora, and it prompted me to go…
Simian declarations
I handed my daughter a banana yesterday for lunch. “Daddy, cut it up! I’m not a monkey!” As I was cutting it up, she added, “You’re hairy like a monkey!…
“I don’t want to be Jewish!”
Gary Sernovitz of Slate does not like the hora for a number of reasons, including the fact that it’s not even Jewish. I am also not Jewish, but having been…
The gender disparity of the marriage proposal
Here’s the difference in a marriage proposal for a man and a woman. When a woman receives a marriage proposal, it means that a man has asked permission to spend…
The inexplicable is fertile ground for fiction.
I saw this door in a Portuguese club on Saturday night. It is set into a brick wall. It’s elevated about three feet off the floor. The top of the…
Resolution update: June 2012
1. Don’t die. Still breathing. 2. Lose ten pounds. Here’s the good news: I lost 38 pounds over a period of two years, and I have not put any of…
Pop head off before eating.
About 200 years ago, the lobster was regarded by most Americans as a filthy, bottom-feeding scavenger unfit for consumption by civilized people. Frequently ground up and used as fertilizer, the…
