04 Jan 2006, 7:15 a.m.

Comedy Carroll

"As we know now, space and time are really the same thing. Space is just time moving very slowly. So, if our time is slightly off and needs correcting, it follows that our space is …

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03 Jan 2006, 11:47 a.m.

From Email To Editors

I get to keep my weekly column in Bay Area Living even though I am moving to New York. My current miniseries of columns has to do with the move. I believe I have succeeded …

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02 Jan 2006, 22:13 p.m.

Good Idea, Bad Idea

Leonard kindly gave me a belated Christmas gift yesterday, making it a New Year's gift. He had surreptitiously transferred the first few minutes of several episodes of Law and Order from the TiVo to a …

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01 Jan 2006, 16:43 p.m.

Gotta Stand Up To Start Moving Forward?

According to some estimates, every six months in the Bay Area, I've made some new amazing friend whom I am now leaving behind. I arrived in August of 1998 and met Seth; most recently (basically) …

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01 Jan 2006, 15:31 p.m.

Self-Defense

Protect your privacy this year.

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01 Jan 2006, 15:21 p.m.

MC Masala Mixes It Up

MC Masala this week: job interviews are like dates. Here is proof that I will never be sophisticated: I called up a bunch of friends to brag about the hotel room. It had a flat-screen …

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01 Jan 2006, 12:48 p.m.

Winds of Change

Happy new year!

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31 Dec 2005, 14:53 p.m.

Social Overload

Hung out with many, many people over the past few days. Even more tonight. I've known Seth longer than I've known Leonard and soon we'll live on different coasts. A wedding, a movie, a comedy …

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30 Dec 2005, 9:58 a.m.

Tiny First-World Problem

You paid for two-to-three-day shipping, which is labelled with the shorthand "2-Day" at the online store. Then you find out that the damn item did not get given to FedEx for two days, and the …

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28 Dec 2005, 23:21 p.m.

MC Masala Reprint

This week's column got published Sunday, Christmas Day. So they reprinted the column I'd written back in July, about my interest in Christianity.

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