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head at your feet, fool to your crown

If you’ve been reading for a while, you might remember this defense of my stupid boycotts on stupid principles: You used to be able to buy Claritin-D without showing a government photo ID, if you recall, but the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005 changed that. Because pseudoephedrine – a powerful decongestant – can be [...]

four signs the Groupon bubble will burst

1. Groupon’s Competitors Have Flooded The Market The existence of a near dozen competitors – Groupon, LivingSocial, BuyWithMe, Dealfind, Tippr, Thrillist, Yipit, Jasmere, AtCost, DealMap, DealOn – isn’t a bad sign in and of itself. But it’s a bad sign when they’re nearly indistinguishable. What does Dealfind do that LivingSocial doesn’t? If this many companies [...]

let me steal this moment from you now

My friend RJ was the best man at my friend John Serpico’s wedding this past weekend. After a few drinks to help him over the expected nerves, he pulled out his notes. “I was worried I wouldn’t be able to find an appropriately humorous anecdote describing John and Kim,” RJ told the crowd. “Until I [...]

everyone will leave at exactly the same time

Morning all! Taking advantage of WordPress’s post-scheduling feature to leave you this note. By the time you read this, I will no longer be present on this Earth. Unbeknownst to you, I took a half day on Friday and got myself saved in advance of the Rapture. So now I’m kicking it in Heaven along [...]

the rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor

What sort of gilded age do we live in that The Borgias is the worst of the half dozen shows that I watch regularly?* (That’s praising with faint damnation, by the way – it’s still a fun show, if a bit hollow) Why watch movies anymore? Or at least for the next six months? Anything [...]

baby, I have no story to be told

“All right, you’re gonna have a quick conversation with my man Adele,” the salesman told me. “Real quick. Only a couple of words.” “Adele?” I said. “Does he know he’s famous?” I stood in the mirrored alcove of a Men’s Wearhouse, wearing a suit over a T-shirt. Joseph Abboud, single-breasted, taupe with dark buttons. Light [...]

unbadass

If you spend any time on the small theater circuit, you’ll be treated to a variety of one-woman shows where a comedian recounts her quirky childhood, tosses in some personal tragedy, and then emerges from the end as a stronger person. Unbadass differs in that there’s no tragedy and that the author (Laura Clark, director [...]

good god, y’all

There’s something like fifty centuries of wars in recorded history, at varying stages of mythology and historical record, including but not limited to the Trojan War, the Akkadian conquest of Sumeria, the Peloponnesian Wars, Alexander the Great’s empire-building, the Mithridatic Wars, the civil wars that ended the Roman Republic, the Yellow Scarves Uprising, the Battle [...]

when you reach the part where the heartache’s gone

Someone put a leash on the journalism majors at Boston Magazine: CHATHAM BARS INN If Fitzgerald had created Jay Gatsby today, he might have installed his protagonist at the Chatham Bars Inn. The 1914 hotel’s foyer alone, with its polished floors and columns, is irreproachably classy. Because if I run a B&B on Cape Cod, [...]

come talking that trash and they’ll pull your card

Ilkka recommended the following blog post about hacking the status game a few weeks back. The “status game” in question is an improv exercise, in which every player takes a playing card and puts it to their forehead, face out, without looking at it. Their status corresponds to the value of their card. The object [...]

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