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How Should I Deal with a Gym Screamer? You Decide My Fate
My apartment complex officially has a screamer. At first I thought he was just a loud grunter, but yesterday he crossed the line from “possibly acceptable but annoying grunter” to “completely...
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Life Lessons in San Francisco: Pie Shakes are Good, Babies are Difficult,...
Here’s a random list of things I learned over my 53 hours in San Francisco last weekend: 1). You can always count on your friends to give great advice when you’re having a major dilemma. Here’s the...
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My Culver City Neighbors: Conserving Paper Even When Losing a Found Turtle
So the sign below is currently taped to a telephone pole a block away from my apartment. I never thought an 11-word sign could cause me to have so many questions. What happened here? Did someone find a...
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First Run-In with LAPD Produces My Very Own “Lebowski Moment”
Dispatcher: “9-1-1, what’s your emergency?” Me: “Yeah, uh, someone just threw a glass bottle at my car while I was driving down Santa Monica Boulevard.” Dispatcher: “OK. What started the altercation?”...
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The Starbucks Experience: The Writers, The Regulars and The (Possibly) Homeless
For those of you who read my football posts, you know I made a New Year’s resolution to write for at least 20 hours per week. Rather than spend most of my day thinking about writing and getting mad at...
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Neighborly Etiquette: Posting Useless Signs And Dealing With Robberies
When I lived in San Francisco, every now and then another unit in our apartment complex would throw a wild party that raged on until five in the morning. One time my roommate got particularly mad about...
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Sign My Petition To Stop Rainbows From Making A Big Deal About Being In The Sky
I’m calling for a permanent moratorium on people being wowed by rainbows. I assumed we hit our rainbow saturation point years ago with the “double rainbow” phenomenon, but apparently not. I was walking...
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Six Days of Boston: Next Time I’m Bringing a Defibrillator and a Spare Liver
My visits home to Massachusetts always seem to unfold the same way: Spend the first few nights partying in Boston, reluctantly drag myself to the sprawling metropolis known as Central Mass (not...
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Really Enjoyed the Free Carpet Cleaning Our Landlord Gave Us For Renewing Our...
So my girlfriend and I renewed our lease for another year a little while back, and they tried to jack up the monthly rent on us. But they said they’d negotiate with us as best as possible. I told them...
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The Brilliant Questions Americans Are Asking Google
Umm, guys? I think we need to talk about some of the results on this map. Apparently Fixr.com, a cost-estimating website, created this map based off a common question people are asking google these...
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