(via wealhtheow): Go to Career Cruising, www.careercruising.com Put in Username: nycareers and Password: landmark. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions. Post the top twenty results Put the careers you have seriously considered in bold. 1. Lobbyist …

When my sister and I were kids, sometimes we would record tapes of ourselves talking, like how some kids put on little skits for and with neighborhood playmates. We'd pretend to be news announcers, plotting …

Surprisingly unappealing: The Good Husband of Zebra Drive. Sort of predictable. Surprisingly rewarding: Psych, Harvard Business Essentials: Strategy.

Today I had my first day of classes, and I tried out the fitness center and tried out for a play. Time to stretch a bit.

Blazing Saddles is a very strange movie. Somehow every time I'd heard of it, I heard about the race and racism jokes but not the insane fourth-wall-breaking. And Gene Wilder's affect reminds me of Zack …

I just watched A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum for the first time, so now I finally get the backstory for Michael Dorn's "Stand aside; I take large steps" Star Trek: …

Part I still holds its own -- when I mention in conversations with friends that ST:TNG debuted a full two decades ago, it always results in a stunned moment of silence. But! There is a …

I finally hounded Leonard into moving to a reliable (read: commercial-grade) hosting provider. So now I can link to funny entries on his blog with confidence that you can click through and read them. I …

My last column talks about punk rock, perseverance, and rejected column names. The Mountain Goats are a folk/punk rock band. I think. I always hesitate when labeling something "punk rock" for fear a more authentic …

Yesterday I read J. J. Weinman's insightful post on The Colbert Report. Like the Richardson/Harihareswara household, Weinman recognizes that Colbert is a farcical soap opera on the order of Arrested Development. I also watched an …