Seven years ago, Leonard predicted my LA-disliking New Yorker attitudes. LOOK AT ME IM RICH Anyone know of a really good compact shredder? Update: Ooops. As Seth reminds me, it's Carthago, not Carthaga.
Yay yay yay! Professor Robin L. Einhorn, who jumpstarted my interest in taxes and economic history in the first place, has published her big new book on the effect of slaveowners' tax avoidance on the …
A few Life's Little Victories. The hymn is one you already know! And can sing! A person whose political and social stances you didn't know turns out to be queer-friendly! Great pizza and a cold, …
First: Jon Carroll mentions, in passing, Columnist Epiphany Syndrome. At least once a month I end up acting like David Brooks or Thomas Friedman and extrapolating an entire worldview, or at least 750 words' worth …
My friend Camille Acey has been insider-blogging about the concert/music industry and it is as though she is writing just for me. Camille runs Remarkable Booking, sort of a boutique booking agency for musicians, and …
Engaging Shakespeare in Central Park. All's Well That Ends Well. Dinner with new acquaintances. Pretty cheap and good. And inspiration from Kameron Hurley.
It's all about the competitive advantage, the unique value proposition, the ineffable you. What makes you stand out? What can you offer that no one else can? Tangentially related lesson: there exist software resellers, who …
Santos doesn't need Cregg for "institutional memory" in his administration! Lyman has far more political experience, and administrative experience too. Isn't Lyman going to be his freaking chief of staff or something? It is completely …
I am writing a column right now that is basically whimsacorical day, three years later. Mostly the last few paragraphs.
Today in history: Leonard interviews someone for fake in a post so hilarious that it was one of the first entries in his Best Of category.
