Urban Honking

It’s strange how even when you don’t have kids, your life still somehow gets more stressful as you age. At least this is my experience. After yet another sleepless night last night, I was standing in the kitchen this morning glumly holding a cup of coffee in my hands and wearing this weird heavy shawl […]

I’m reading a lot right now, as I finished a shitty draft of my article and am waiting for my old man to tear it apart with his teeth before I rewrite it and/or before I quit my job and go live in a tent in the woods. So I’m taking some reading days. The […]

I just deleted some stressful emails and said “I don’t care” out loud. It felt great. I am working on not sweating the small stuff. There is more than enough medium and big stuff to sweat and I’m going to save my sweat for those things and not expend it on worrying about emails or […]

Oh lord, these bodies! Am I right? I’ve been seeing lots of doctors to try to start dealing with some of my weird health issues that I have been half-assedly confronting for several years. I spent a ton of money on those stupid tests that always come back normal, so then since I’d reached my […]

I have a cold, am hungover, woke up at 6 with a throbbing headache based on grinding my teeth all night which is wearing away the bones in my jaw, and my book was rejected and so now I have to write a whole new book from scratch. Yet somehow I am cheering myself up […]

The new Mad Max was so good that I saw it two days ago and I can’t stop thinking about it, dreaming about it, writing to friends about it. I don’t even want to write about it because I won’t do it justice, but I am compelled because I can’t think about anything else. First […]

“It takes a bold restaurateur to set up shop in the No-Man’s Land of [insert absurd neighborhood name associated either with Wall St. or poor people], but [ludicrously stupid restaurant name] just might succeed where so many other farm-to-table efforts have failed” “The fetal duck braised in its own mother’s tears was insouciant, but a […]

The other night my old man asked me if I could think of any ways I am tangibly different because of being with him. I thought of SO many! And all of them basically boil down to “not acting like a child anymore.” Instead of throwing garbage all over the car, I bring the garbage […]

In honor of Mad Men ending tonight (NO SPOILERS you guys, I won’t watch it til tomorrow) here are two incredible ads that appeared one right after the other in an issue of the New Yorker I was trying to read. Look at us. Look at what we’ve become. Our desires, our needs, are so […]

The moment the semester ended I put on cutoff shorts and didn’t do any of my grading. Am now filled with white-hot rage whenever I have to go to campus. People keep assuming that I am there, which is baffling to me. “Will you be in your office later?” Uh…..WHAT! Then I remember it is […]