...that the urge to take ridiculous photos, especially while traveling in China, is a dominant recessive gene in my family.  I'm proud to come from a long line of exhibitionist smart asses with a penchant for international travel....

Growing up and going to college in the frigid North I was totally accustomed to "winter" equaling approximately 5 months of snow.  More importantly, that snow didn't really slow anyone down.  1 foot over night?  Dig yourself out and get your ass to work. In Washington...

I seriously need to get back to blogging.  Unfortunately I have a mental block on original thought these days, thanks mostly to my totally non-productive holiday of watching every CSI series known to man (CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, NCIS...)  The only things I can think to blog about are d...

It’s that time of year again folks – the great Yankee Swap (slash White Elephant gift exchange) between me and all my wise ass friends. You may recall my post from last year, which detailed some of the uber thoughtful gifts that were swapped such as a sachet of goat milk soap shaped like baby ha...

Sometimes I really, really love stuff that goes down on the Internet.  The fact that the offline event that inspired the situation I'm about to relate occurred a few minutes from my apartment in DC makes it even better. Two days ago Jeff Simmermon of And I Am Not Lying published a blog post detaili...

#1) I would have LOVED to have been the intern that found the Bill O'Reilly melt down video in Inside Edition's VHS Cassette Library.  Watch below for a classic Stephen Colbert spoof (which includes the original in its entirety.)  "Fuck it!  We'll do it live!"...

I have long maintained that I am the least creative person in my family. My dad is this crazy artist, and my brother and sister both got that gene. My brother is especially gifted having gotten the double double of my dad's talents and my grandfather's (patented 25 times over) engineering genius. Le...

Well, for the thousandth night in a row I came home to an apartment with literally no food in it. (Ok, I have pickles, Kraft singles, and brownie mix.) As both my parents worked full time when I was a kid, I rationalize that this must have happened to my Mom or Dad at some point - you know stressful...

Props to Bad Ass Ideas for pointing me in the direction of FuckThisWebsite. Fuck This Website was started after the author printed out "fuck" stickers in a variety of sizes and started sticking them on public signage. Apparently it became "an obsession" and spawned a web site (Fuck This Website), a ...

While spending time with friends and family are obviously the high points of my holidays when I'm home in the Mich, here are four other things that deserve mention: 4) My Bed. My room is like a time capsule from 1999 when I moved to Wellesley. However, I love waking up in my room, in my bed. The bes...