This weekend, while using a generic cotton swab to clean my left ear, I got a ball of cotton lodged in my left ear. Leonard and I tried to float it out, to tweeze it …
If you ever visit my putative homepage, and you're viewing the page with graphics turned on, you'll see a bit of Russian at the bottom. "Ya mogu yest steklo; eto menya ne vredit," it says. …
Last year we lost and this year we didn't even enter; the person who usually does these sorts of things was out. This year I'm betting the folk-guitar "Vote for John Kerry" song will stick …
Andrew Leonard makes me cry and Malcolm Gladwell convinces me I'll never be a genius. Neither of these is a difficult goal.
Websnark today discourses on the different purposes of his different journals and the permanent records we create for ourselves.
If you are yelling profanity at the email on your screen because the customer has the audacity to suggest a deficiency in your website's help infrastructure, take a break away from the computer.
Last night I tried to watch Will Franken perform at 50 Mason. I did arrive a bit late, after schmoozing with my Salon colleague Jeff, and saw the ever-friendly Mike Spiegelman, as well as a …
BoingBoing points me to directions to merge fashion with modesty. My personal answer is to dress like a man and not care about fashion. Pants, button-down or tee shirt, done. I guess you need a …
"I've spent a lot of my life trying to become better and better at what I DO. Somehow I thought my achievements might attract love. This has always been my fantasy. It's a crazy fantasy …
C.W. Nevius's personal essay handwringing in the Chronicle will find its way into the wringing hands of many a high school student. Great dark humor in the ending. Tonight I watch Will Franken at 50 …
