Just moments after I snapped this picture of all the ice-frivolity at Rockefeller Center yesterday, my wallet fell out of my pocket and onto 49th Street. It was a sweet little tan leather tri-fold with an embossed pickup truck that I bought from an aging cordwainer at the Virginia Highlands Festival in Abingdon a few years back. I …
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Vaginas: The Mystery!
This post from over at Dadcentric.com both cracked me up and made me jealous. Why? Title: “I can see your uterus.” Reason for jealousy: That is a better Hed than “Vaginas: The Mystery!” (although I love headlines with exclamation points! In fact, I just love exclamation points in general! Really! No kidding!). Premise: No idea, …
A Week on the Wagon
Ah, what frivolous creatures we were early in the week, before the Gonave Microplate and the Caribbean Plate slipped against each other, sending Port-Au-Prince into the the third ring of Hell. We thought we had problems: Nathan actually complained about NOT living in Brooklyn, and about getting lots of web traffic, albeit from horny teenagers. …
I Married a Foreigner!
Seventeen years after she moved to this country from a mountainous little island in the South China Sea—it’s called Taiwan—my wife is now, as of this morning, officially and, I hope, irrevocably, a U.S. citizen. Leaving aside all the reasons it took so long for this momentous event to occur—“You mean you don’t automatically become …