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Should I Care That I Look Like An Idiot at the Gym?
Ok, let me start off by saying I’ve put on, like, a lot of weight in the last two years. 20 pounds or so, and I was twenty pounds heavy to begin with it. Coupled with the thinning hair, the fact that...
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The “Getting My Shit Together” Clock Is Winding Down
Now that I’m 29, I’ve been coming back to the old (Hindu?) saying, “You spend your first 30 years making your habits. For the last 30 years, your habits make you.” Unhappily, I find this concept...
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Am I too old or too irresponsible to skateboard?
Summer before last I realized I hadn’t skateboarded in almost 10 years, so I went to a shop and got a deck. It took a minute to regain bearings but by the end of the day I could hop over curbs again,...
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Your excuses for not stretching today are not very good.
The first time I went to see a doctor about lower back-pain, I was about 26 and had been working in a sit-down job for about a year and a half. I’d noticed some tightening in my lower back, so I...
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My earthquake/emergency kit needs an overhaul
A few months after I moved into my latest apartment, I decided to succumb to the pressures of San Francisco’s department of emergency management and set aside a little space in the house for an...
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How to be an asshole at a mixology bar
Last weekend, a group of friends and I were encouraged to check out a craft cocktail spot in Lower Manhattan (that will remain unnamed) by a friend who is into mixology and had read that the spot had...
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The hangovers are getting worse – what should I do?
I remember when I was in my early 20s, drinking with friends in their late 20s would tell me that about how when they turned 28 or so, hangovers got substantially worse. And me, being the typical...
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How to be an asshole at the artisan coffee bar
Let me preface this post by saying on the scale between coffee slobs and coffee snobs, I probably land closer on the snob side of the spectrum. I live in San Francisco, home to, like, half a dozen...
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Should I just embrace the fact that I watch politics as sports?
I’m like you. Well, I’m not exactly like you, but we’re pretty similar. We’re in our twenties (for now) and we like to think of ourselves as politically informed and we spend a lot of time on the...
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6 stickK.com commitments I’m thinking about making (but probably won’t)
stickK is a website, founded a by a couple Yale professors, that helps people reach their goals, usually weight-loss or exercise related. Their method to motivate the unmotivated-able is as old the...
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I am outraged (for, like, 10 minutes, before going back to dicking around on...
Earlier, this week, like many of those hooked to the reflective glare of the internet, I was riveted by a Tumblr post by NYC-based comedy writer Matt Fisher entitled, “My Sister Paid Progressive...
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7 possible reasons why I just spent $35 on a weekday lunch
Me and my friend/absent collaborator Andrew Brown often meet up on weekdays to get lunch. Usually, we go to a pleasant Chinese café on Church St, where the lunch special is a whopping $5.75. The...
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