Archive for December, 2008
2009: The Year We Finally All Get a Jetpack
Posted in Uncategorized on December 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Entirety of Human Interaction Captured in Ten Simple Phrases
Posted in Uncategorized on December 30, 2008 | 5 Comments »
“Make me.” “I’m sorry you feel that way.” “Well, I better let you go.” “Who threw that?!” “Ask your mother.” “I don’t get it.” “This is why we can’t have nice things!” “No, the other left.” “Where the hell did that come from?!” “I didn’t order this.”
Zack and Miri by Way of Steinbeck
Posted in Uncategorized on December 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A Visual Guide to Celebrating and Surviving the Holidays with Your Family
Posted in Uncategorized on December 17, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Ah, the holidays. A time to rejoice…A time to reflect…And a time to crumble.The holidays can oft be a “perfect storm” of high tension, low energy and middling bouts of migraine-induced strokes…Such adverse conditions can often lead to noticeable behavioral changes, chief among them helplessness, social isolation and inter-familial aggression, also known as “angry blood” [...]
Tonight at Union Hall in Brooklyn: My Childhood in Pornography
Posted in Uncategorized on December 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Please join me and other “academics” tonight as the self-described “useless lecture” (yet critically adored) series Adult Education presents “Misspent Youth,” a heartwarming collection of childhood recollections, regrets and repressed memories. In addition to other great people talking about growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness, making all of one’s life choices based on the radio [...]
Christmas Specials Time Wisely Forgot
Posted in Uncategorized on December 12, 2008 | 20 Comments »
Much like a recently orphaned nine-year-old who is left not only to look after his younger siblings but also the day-to-day operations of Exxon Mobil, Christmas Day has far too much riding on it for just one holiday. Marketers need Christmas to succeed on a financial level because the only thing about 2008 that would [...]
Bob Cratchit: Whiny Ingrate
Posted in Uncategorized on December 10, 2008 | 9 Comments »
As Christmas Day nears and the country is now officially mired in a recession, one’s mind turns to thoughts of A Christmas Carol, a holiday tale defined by hard economic times as symbolized by Scrooge’s poor, underpaid clerk Bob Cratchit. Yet, upon looking at the story with fresh eyes and through the lens of today’s [...]
How Did I Make the 2009 Hot Blogger Calendar? I Had the Audacity to Dream.
Posted in Uncategorized on December 9, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Back in 1987, when my friend Jeb Brack and I shared a dorm room at Duke, we’d spend many a late night talking about our future…when not working on our cinematic masterpiece Carl, about a teddy bear that accidentally gets accepted to college, joins a fraternity, goes on a drinking binge resulting in campus-wide mayhem [...]
