Frankly
HPV has been having quite a year. It causes wives of Brooklyn authors to upset people on Twitter and now we all know that vaccinating against the virus will turn you retarded. For me (this […]
Month: September 2011
Grandpa-Aged
The middle ages have skipped to straight-up elderly. A new milestone in my social media world has been reached: the first person (I’m aware of) in my graduating class has become a grandparent. Cheers to […]
Mom-Aged
A site I like not so long ago used the phrase mom-aged totally innocently in reference to a woman over-40. I know what she meant but because I'm the kind of stickler who would not […]
New Yorkers
Carolita Johnson's tale of being tormented over the years due to her looks (having big lips in particular) is quite the read. I instantly recognized her, though, from a New York Times real estate article […]
Subway Doppelgangers
No matter how good I think I look when I leave the house (and I thought I looked pretty ok this morning) when I get a ghoulish, shadowy glimpse of my reflection in the subway […]
Hold Shelf Success
This morning an automated email from Brooklyn Public Library informed me that the system's single copy of The Puglist at Rest was waiting for me on the holds shelf at the Carroll Gardens branch. Coincidence, […]
Pugilism
Speaking of books (I think I just was), I rely on the Brooklyn Public Library for providing reading material. They’re pretty good (and even have a Gary Lutz book, not the short story collection I […]
But What Does That Make Carroll Gardens?
Periodically, I go through patches where I try to be more of a reader. One of the last times (jesus, apparently, seven years ago) I picked up a book by an author named Gary Lutz […]
Countertop Culture
Initially I was excited about Show Me Nonstop (the amount of new this and new that I sift through each morning before actually getting any work done is sad—and generally not inspiring), a site that’s […]
Townies
For no other reason beyond simply wanting to (that’s a good reason to do things, I’ve started to discover) I ended up in Southeastern, Virginia, right where it nearly meshes with Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina […]