2017 is now behind us. Good riddance, many would say. Because we’ve decided we’re just going to hate entire years now. Thank God 2016 is over, every likable famous person died. Thank God 2017 is over, we found out there’s...
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Merry Clayton and the Greatest Performance of All
Everyone has an instrument that escalates music for them. Upbeat people have the horns. Ragers have the guitar. George W. Bush has the drums. Hopeless romantics have the violin. Whatever it is that triggers that escalation is different from person-to-person....
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Aziz Ansari’s SNL Monologue, Chris Brown, and Consistency
I guess it’s time for me to write something about “politics,” which is neither something I am qualified to write about nor something I ever desired to write about nor something I am comfortable writing about. As I’m sure most...
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The 2015 MAMAMY Awards
Way back when, in a land called February, I took a trip down to Mexico. I’m a mixed bag when I get on a plane – I might be productive, I might be sleepy, I might have crippling anxiety that...
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What in God’s Name Is This Music Video? Happy Tunesday! Vol. 4 of 52
On a flight down to Austin, Massachusetts, this past Friday, I had the pleasure of having a screen in my face the entire flight, courtesy of JetBlue. Since I’m a degenerate, I had my TV on the whole time, even...
Continue ReadingHappy Tunesday! (Vol. 2 of 52)
Assuming my body allows me (the road to recovery after a Sunday wedding can be a long one) and the show doesn’t sell out before I hit “publish,” I’ll be dragging what’s left of my body across town to check...
Continue ReadingMind the Gap
Most of the time, when you’re making a fool of yourself on purpose, it’s just to make other people happy. Their happiness brings you happiness. You may be costing yourself immeasurably in the persona you’re left with, but it’s worth...
Continue ReadingI Left It on the Table
“Frenetically,” he repeated to us, the word bowling over the classroom and sending each one of us into a stun. I had never encountered a teacher with so much command. He shook me to my very core, and within five...
Continue ReadingThe Pain of Pronouncing Au Bon Pain
It’s weird to stop and think about some of the great things I went through most of life without knowing: the taste of pesto, the sting of whiskey, the sound of Kiefer Sutherland yelling “DAMMIT” as a terrorist flees the...
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