Everyone Loves Fried Chicken
Perhaps owners who add the name Obama to their fried chicken businesses might naïve, opportunistic or insensitive but I don't see how it's racist. To me, racism implies malice. I do know that if I […]
Tragedies
Behind Closed Doors
Murder is rare in my immediate neighborhood (I won’t say zip code since Carroll Gardens and Red Hook are totally different beasts—it looks like there were five 11231 murders in 2008). It’s not something I […]
Shop Till You Drop Off the Face of the Earth
Oh my, I think I’ve seen my future. A mute, unidentifiable elderly woman with Alzheimer’s was found wandering around the Woodbridge Center mall in 1994 and had been institutionalized as a Jane Doe ever since. […]
Don’t Bring Me Down
I didn’t need a BusinessWeek report to tell me that Portland, Oregon is a downer of a place. In fact, it’s the most unhappy city in the nation, primarily due to its suicide and depression […]
Grey Anatomy
Do people really believe that your hair just spontaneously and rapidly turns gray, from stress or poltergeists or I guess becoming the president of the United States? I think that’s bullshit, though admittedly, I don’t […]
This Blows
Kleenex’s Let it Out campaign doesn’t make me want to buy facial tissue so much as wonder what possesses people to air peculiar personal matters online (and this coming from a long-time chronicler of the […]
Always a Stalker, Never the Stalked
Sure, this is old news but Project Me!: Part 2 is no slave to timeliness or current events. I was curious just exactly which ladies Esquire was referring to when a few months ago they […]
Bring on the Gingko Biloba
I might have to create a dementia category, as that’s all I can seem to talk about this week. Last night right before I left work, I received an email scheduling a 10am Thursday meeting. […]
The Future is Now
Ok, here’s a perfect example of my increasing dementia. I just got off phone with my doctor’s office after being on hold a million years. When I finally got a human I stated “I need […]
Thanks for the Memories
Do you think it’s possible for medication to cause memory loss? Because diet, exercise, smoking cessation and even a 2008 25-pound weight loss seem no match for crap genes, I’ve been taking blood pressure medication […]