Urban Honking

HER Even though I am tired of the sad sack dude movie, I admit that I love no one’s face more than Joaquin Phoenix’s and I am happy to pay money to stare at it for 2 hours. My friend group is remarkably split on this movie, which is always interesting. FROZEN As a rule, […]

“I Do Not Cover Everything”: An Inexhaustive Index of the Crosscut Saw “I do not cover everything. Sharpening, a complex and exacting art, is left for the reader to discover in Warren Miller’s excellent publication, Crosscut Saw Manual (1977, rev. 2003)*. I also will not cover complex felling techniques.” — David E Michael, Saws that […]

Okay okay. I know this is a movie that came out a long time ago, but I feel like complaining about the patriarchy. Plus, like Anthony Lane, I am not above shooting fish in a barrel just for the cruel fun of it, although unlike Anthony Lane, I don’t get paid what I assume must […]

Hey! Somebody wrote to ask me for ADVICE! I really enjoyed this one. I lived vicariously through that dude for a second. 26 and just starting out on this adventure of life! What a glorious time! I’ve been doing a lot of card reading. I love my cards so much. It is so helpful to […]

My parents just celebrated their 40th anniversary! Because the nature of the parent-child relationship is that of unending self-sacrifice to overweening narcissism, and because it remains essentially impossible to truly imagine your parents having a life before you came along, I can only keep thinking of it in terms of myself: “they’ve been married longer […]

this Elizabeth Kolbert series about extinction is BLOWING MY MIND. I think this is the most important thing I have read since I learned how to read. It is actually amazing because just a few weeks ago we were wondering suddenly about what ancient people thought when they found fossils. Like, did the Greeks find […]

Feel it has been too long since I shared images of my beautiful friend with all the world. Here he is, in all his grubby glory! He is the worst

Oh yes, well someone in the comments has asked me to tell the story of the time I ruined my brother’s Halloween party! GLAD YOU ASKED! It was a balmy October evening in Los Angeles, and my brother and his girlfriend had been planning their Halloween party for months. My brother had made a full-body […]

My old man is in a deep dissertation zone, under a heavy and scary deadline that he can barely talk about without getting sick. I am fully on board with his plight and am trying to be supportive in the only way I know how, which is to just try to be quiet and make […]

First of all, we saw “Don Jon” and it was SO GOOD. We had high hopes for it for several reasons, in spite of its admittedly off-putting trailer. It’s written and directed by Joseph Gordon Levitt, who I believe is not an idiot, for starters, and furthermore I could tell that underneath all the guido-accented […]