I’m not a big fan of New Year’s resolutions. To start with, the word resolved brings me back to high school debate, a series of disturbing memories best left in the repressed graveyard of teenaged shame. Yes: I was on the debate team at an all-guys high school. I had enough adolescent sexual frustration to [...]
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
— Dylan Thomas
I participated in the 5k Rudolph Run on Saturday morning, when it was 24 degrees outside. We were a bunch of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Retards. But I did manage to [...]
I’ve recently tightened up my waistline a little bit — yay — but it causes a conundrum: I can now yank my belt one (1) button tighter, which gives me an immediate psychological boost, but then a couple hours later I’m gasping for air like a Victorian-era corset victim.
Sometimes life is complicated.
A Victorian’s Secret [...]
After reading yesterday’s highlighted story about the UCB improv comedy school in Manhattan, I saw a link to another fun article about the independent comedy scene in New York.
The piece primarily focuses on up-and-comer Kumail Nanjiani, and included a section that jumped out at me:
Meanwhile, Mr. Nanjiani keeps up the pace, trying to perform [...]
I like to smile. It’s healthy, fun, and constitutes a large part of how I interact with the world. Smiling, in my opinion, is one of life’s great pleasures.
And until last week, I had taken smiling completely for granted.
“Gaah… even I know how toride a bike without falling off.”
In the immediate aftermath of my bike [...]
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