I have a bad habit of eating like a garbage disposal. It makes perfect sense, waste-wise. It’s a natural chain of events— a simple formula: whatIcookfortheboys – whattheydon’teat = easymealsforme
7 Ways to Spice Up Your Wife for Mother’s Day
I thought I’d help the menfolk out this year with ideas on how to make your wife feel special on Mother’s Day (which, by the way, is May 13–missing it entirely would not be wise). A quick perusal of flickr using the terms “husband wife connect” gave me some lovely visual inspiration–and a lot of [...]
It Is a Coping Mechanism
A bunch of the ladies in my neighborhood went out this weekend and did one of those Tough Mudder 5K obstacle course things. You know, you run, then you climb over walls and crawl under barbed wire in mud and then you run some more? One of those. I think it goes without saying that [...]
How to Get Rich Blogging
There are a number of blogs out there–over half a million in fact. Many of these blogs are started with the naive intent to become rich and famous. Let’s famous it, we’d all love to get paid 6 figures (or even 3 figures) to play on the computer all day. After all, isn’t playing on [...]
Fake It Till You Make It Wine Tasting Tips
I once took a wine class titled “How to Be a Wine Snob in Under Two Hours.” It should have been titled “How to Get Tanked in Under One Hour” because I don’t remember much. Since then, I have muddled my way through enough tastings to teach my own class.
What Happens When Things Go Wrong With The BlackBerry PlayBook?
My new BlackBerry PlayBook reminds me of countertops. In a good way. See, I used to own a granite countertop business (I sold my half to a business partner in October of 2010). And it was a good, little shop, too, 15-ish employees fabricating and installing around seven kitchens a week. One thing that made [...]
Why I Love Bald Men
We all know that baldness is caused by an extra dose of testosterone, the manly hormone. So bald men are, literally, more manly than your average fully haired model. Tough guy wannabes know this. This is why they shave their heads, to imitate their more manly brothers. Close cropped, shiny topped, horseshoe-headed or all gone, [...]
Why Women Aren’t Funny
I hear a lot of nonsense about how women aren’t funny. In fact, it’s actually a joke I often make myself. You see, I like my humor dry (and shaken, not stirred). See, when I think about spending the afternoon with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, I think about how dull and dreary it would [...]
How to Tell if a Movie Will Suck
We’ve all been there. We’ve walked out of a dark theater into the blinding sunlight feeling disheveled and ashamed of ourselves. We’ve wondered what we did to deserve sitting through the atrocity we’ve just seen. We contemplate writing a strongly-worded letter to the studio to harangue them for having the balls to take our money [...]
A Whopper of a Fable
Boy have I got a Whopper to tell you! Yup, the capital “W” on Whopper is intended. You see this story has something to do with Whoppers, the chocolate-covered malt balls I used to like until I was 10 years old. After 10, not so much. 10-year-old me had a sweet after school routine. On [...]
Is it Too Soon For a Titanic Joke?
Last week I plunked down a cool $27 to see Titantic in 3D. This is a movie that I already own and have seen three times in the theater. And also watched in Spanish on Telemundo. Just in case: it still sinks, and I don’t even speak Spanish. Too soon?
Britain: No Place to be Pretty, or Successful
There has been a recent media storm in the UK. It surrounds a bold woman who wrote an article in one of the daily tabloid newspapers, declaring that her life has been difficult due to her stunning beauty. The newspaper in question is renowned for printing material that provokes a knee-jerk reaction and this story [...]
