It was so cold today that the Swedish Fish in my pocket quickly turned to rocks as I walked down Broadway, finishing up my Christmas shopping. I have become the guy who asks for help in a clothing store, because when it comes to clothing, I need lots of help.
“Hey, I’m trying to find, uh, [...]

There are characters out there. They worry, eat, play, and suffer in exactly the same way you do. When they’re not doing that, they’re using the internet. And now you can talk to them.
Chatroulette is a website that’s not for the shy or vain. It connects you via webcam for a one-on-one conversation with a [...]

Ben and I have been having a little fun with Omegle, a site I’ve written about before that connects you to random strangers for a text-based conversation. I find it hard to take seriously.
You’re now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
Stranger: asl?
You: 18/f/nj
Stranger: 21/m/michigan
You: awesome
You: tell me about the [...]

I’m headed to Cambridge right this very moment. It’s already cold in New York, so I can only imagine what the temperature will be like after heading further north for four hours. In preparation, I have packed two jackets, gloves, and a hat that my mom says reminds her of Elliott Smith. According to her, [...]

Job hunting, Maude Night at UCB, and then the discovery of some curious food labels:

Two very important videos. Here’s Orson Welles, completely tanked while going on about “French excellence:”

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And here’s a baby in a carseat who knows a thing or two about heavy metal.

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You may thank me later.

The sky is spitting out these quarter-sized chucks of snowflake that stick to your face and hair and it is winter and time to drink hot things.
Here’s how yesterday goes: feet on the floor, landing steadily in my shoes, and then out the door with the Flying Burrito Brothers pumping steadily into my head. I [...]

As a ex-college radio superstar, I must confess an unabashed love of good podcasts. There’s no FCC regulations to worry about, there’s wonderful freedom that the form allows, and there’s beautiful and hilarious people producing them each day. I want to talk to you about Marc Maron’s WTF.

I find that I like radio hosts the [...]

I made it back to New York without problems. unless you consider being stuck in traffic for a few hours on a poorly ventilated bus a problem. I was sitting down for a little over six hours. My ass hurt! It still hurts! But all was restored as soon as I stepped off that germ-incubating sardine [...]

Hey, it’s the holidays. I’ve been busy regenerating on vitamin BRF. That stands for BROAD RUN FARMS, my green little neighborhood on the Potomac River. Tomorrow I’ll return by bus to New York City, rejuvenated and alive and hopeful. If nothing else, it’s only three short weeks until I’m right back home again for Christmas.
How [...]

Let’s discuss yesterday, as it was the day I returned to the halls of Broad Run High School for the first time in quite a while. I go back to visit on occasion because I feel a strange connection to high school that seems to evade rational explanation. I had ridiculous adventures there, the memories [...]

When my parents picked me up in DC, one of the first things they told me was that they had just seen Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
“I liked it because of the male nudity,” Mom said. “I’m tired of so much female nudity all the time.” I decided not to tell her about the Václav Havel play [...]

I’ve been home in Virginia for a little over 24 hours. It’s late, so I won’t go in to details right now. Just know that my hair received a cut, cookies were made, dogs were walked, friends were visited, hugs were given and received, stories were told, laughs were heard, and lots of vegetarian chili [...]

Here’s how it stands right now, at this very moment (November 21, 2009, 11:40:56 AM EST). I am in the Borders next to Madison Square Garden for the sake of their free wifi, killing some time until my bus leaves at 12:30 PM. Like I said before, I am DC-bound, where I will be taken [...]

I’m not sure where this AM catatonia comes from, but lately it seems an impossibility to get out of bed in the morning. Archimedes said, “Give me a lever big enough and I’ll move the world.” I’d like to see him do his worst on my tired body when the sun comes up. I’m stuck [...]