With social media usage approaching something like ubiquity, it’s not surprising to see creative endeavors that are are hatched and nurtured in social find their way into the more traditional mainstream media. To name just a few: Twitter’s @shitmydadsays has been optioned for television, countless writers have gone from blog to book including the [...]
Amanda and I just got back from a relaxing long weekend in Providenciales, Turks & Caicos. We didn’t do much more than veg out and get sunburns, which is just what the doctor ordered. (Note to self: check into the credentials of that doctor that evidently never heard of skin cancer. Anyway…)
I packed my crap [...]
If I had to make a list of favorite weekend activities, house hunting would rank somewhere near the bottom — higher than watching Amanda comment on hundreds of her high school friends’ Facebook walls for hours on end, but lower than allowing Amanda and Olivia to paint my toenails. In other words, somewhere near the [...]
It’s Thanksgiving eve and it’s mighty lonely around Chateau Verdineau. And it’s not even that Amanda has wandered off into a different wing and I just need to wait for her to return to the Great Room bearing a silver platter heaped with gourds, gizzards or some other kind of holiday crap. She left for [...]
Sunday nights.
To-do lists.
Black tie events.
Reply to all.
Going to the post office to return something I purchased online.
Unexplained traffic jams.
Explained traffic jams.
Rappers who think they are actors.
Actors who want to be singers.
Passive aggressive behavior.
Carrying a tray in a cafeteria or fast food restaurant.
The royal “we”.
Royal blue.
Meeting new people.
Waiting in line.
Alarmists.
Smokers.
When I take off my glasses and [...]
Of all the activities I plan for weekends with my daughter, our semi-regular visits to Dave & Buster’s offer the best odds of landing my ugly mug on Why the Fuck Do You Have a Kid?
“Why’s that?” you ask. (OK – maybe you didn’t really ask but I’m gonna tell you anyway…)
Well, you see, Olivia [...]
This morning I read a Wall Street Journal article called “Not So Fast” by Granta editor John Freeman. It’s worth the read if you have the time (doubly-so if you don’t have the time) and it begins like this:
The boundlessness of the Internet always runs into the hard fact of our animal nature, our physical [...]
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