Travel don’ts for the solitary urbanite

One more year until I have to grow up.

Turn and face the strange

We don’t have a lot of snow where I live, so we’ve got hundreds of words for something else. Warning: contains profanity.

Because I didn’t think to buy a card.

I hope everybody’s having a Merry Christmas, even if you’re not the type who usually celebrates it. As for me: I didn’t get knocked over by any crazy Italian women, I’m about 90% over my seasonal debilitating cold, I’ve only read 1 work-related e-mail in the past 7 days, I’m full of dressing and my [...]

Life in a post-DirecTV world

From the “posting just to say I’m still alive” department: Last weekend I tagged along with some friends to Disneyland and it was, despite United Airlines’ best efforts, a great big ton o’ fun. One of the many things I like about Disney parks is that you can go hundreds of times, covering every inch [...]

There are at least 500 ways that 500 Days of Summer could’ve gone horribly wrong, but somehow they pulled it off.

From way over on the other side of the country, my family sent me a cake! It came in a big box packed with styrofoam and dry ice, like a transplant organ. I don’t want to think about what that must’ve cost. And I don’t want to make up a story about how I couldn’t [...]