September 2011
8 posts
Removing a rat from your apartment. The hard way.
Here’s the short version:
A rat was living in my house.
So I brained it.
And afterwards, I drank the rat’s blood for spiritual strength and to pay homage to the ancient God of redemption, Sháktü-tiki-tä.
Ok, I made the last part up.
But most of it is true. It went like this:
To begin with, let me say I’ve never really had any animosity towards rats. My dad’s a doctor, my mother a science...
Becoming a Boss fan at Giants Stadium
Now, I’m somewhat of a Springsteen fan, but by no means a superfan. At least until tonight. Sure, I had “Born in the USA” as a teenager (who didn’t?), and loved “No retreat, no surrender” and “My hometown,” but Glory Days and the title track never grabbed me. But I lucked into some last minute tickets to see him on night #1 of his final run at Giants Stadium in...
Dealing with my closet.
We all have problems we put off dealing with.
Issues that we know need our attention, messes we know we need to clean up, patterns that we know are unsustainable if not corrected. But we just can’t seem to find the motivation to tackle them.
For me, it’s my closet.
It’s a sprawling, ugly, chaotic, unorganized, unmanageable disaster area, and a testament to my lack of organization and inability...
In defense of small-breasted women.
[[MORE]]Call me crazy, but I’ve never been a big fan of big boobs.
They’ve just never done a whole lot for me.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I know.
In a culture that glorifies the likes of Pamela Anderson and the Swedish Twins, surely I’m gay, right? Or at least in dire need of glasses?
Alas, no. I assure you I’m a visual horndog for the fairer sex.
But it just seems that whenever I fall...
How George Lucas lost his Obi-Wan.
(On the importance of having a “no” person in your life.)
If you’re a Star Wars fan, chances are you’re mostly a fan of the first three Star Wars films, and either barely tolerate or have extreme anger towards the last three. The “prequels,” as they have been labeled, were unilaterally dismissed as lacking any real character development, or emotional engagement. They were...
How to break up with a girl (from a guy who's done...
One of the most difficult ordeals a guy can face is the delicate matter of ending a relationship that his girlfriend still wants to continue, especially if he still cares for her. There are some good ways to go about it, but infinitely more bad ones, and I’ve certainly plumbed the latter category more times than I’d like to admit over the years. So in there interests of sparing men...
Luck, fate and the conservation of energy law.
I’m not a big believer in fate.
But I do a put a lot of stock in science.
One of my favorite laws of the physical world is this one, the conservation of energy law, or first law of thermodynamics:
“Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only change forms.”
For instance: Atoms in the sun undergo fission, the energy from which creates sunlight, which then heats our planet, which helps...
A lesson on manhood, courtesy of a Special...
This is a story about that tender, coming-of-age moment in every young man’s life: his first kiss. And how, for me, it in no way, shape or form resembled the one I’d hoped to have as a young man. But, like many things in life, sometimes it’s the unexpected turns that have the most to teach us.
The story begins in the hills of Maine, where I grew up ski racing. Ever heard of Olympian Bode Miller?...
