Category: Life
It’s Not A Metaphor For Our Relationship
Here's the thing, I think my girlfriend is going to break up with me. Not anytime soon and not for any reason in particular but just perpetually.
Diary of a Month Without Coffee
For some reason, I feel the need to hit the reset button on my caffeine intake. I did it again this February.
I'm through saying "I'm so old." Frankly, I'm old enough to realize that I'm young.
The summer after third grade, my parents hired a contractor to do some work on our house. I learned a lot about adults that summer.
You yell like one of those guys at a baseball game, only you yell about stand-up comedy, not hot dogs or Budweiser. This is barking.
On My Twenty-Ninth Birthday, I Bought a Skateboard
I wrote this a decade ago. I wanted to ollie before I turned 30 but life got in the way. Carpe diem, people.
I'm not saying this to be a jerk or a contrarian but I never really got David Bowie. I thought all of the tributes were a little over the top but it wasn't my place to say so because I thought about a recent death that did move me. It was Robin Williams.
I know very little about my parents' courtship or their wedding. I also know very little about the day that I was born. I do, however, know where I was conceived.
Over the past few years there has been a spate of articles decrying the lost soul of New York. If New York is so devoid of culture and just like any other city and it's just a corporate shell of its former self, then you can leave.
I think that any concept I have of masculinity comes from my father's benevolent nihilism and I always wondered if not having a dad himself made him so atypically dad-like.
Pot And Me: An Acquaintance Story
I'm amazed that I was never a pot head. Growing up in the suburbs of upstate New York, I had shoulder length hair, wore Birkenstocks, and liked jam band music. Hell, I went to Phish concerts sober. Who does that?
After having paid yet another parking ticket and after driving with the check engine light on for a week, I decided that it was time to get rid of my car.