Join Team TFR: Haiti Relief Run

Loyal Readers, I run for a number of reasons: --I am predisposed to chubbiness --Women love when I talk about running (especially when I casually mention the foreign places where I've run) --I hate the idea that my right knee...

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TFR: Not a Sensationalist Site

An awesome clip from last night's Daily Show elucidates why this blog is so much better than the others out there. The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cThe Blogs Must Be Crazywww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth...

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I'm Back and It Feels Good

Dear TFR Readers: I've missed you since we've been apart. Since 2009, the site has been updated, expanded, no more truncations, no more sadness. I look forward to servicing you in the least sexual way that such a statement suggests....

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TFR Vacation

Loyal Readers: As you well know, TFR has an overarching commitment to excellence. Our standards are so duty-bound to preeminence that not even the slightest inkling of the second rate can be afforded. It is in the spirit of this...

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Another Easy Breezy Jewcy Post

http://www.jewcy.com/post/ahmadinejad_worlds_biggest_selfhating_jew...

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I'm Not Cheating Baby

...I'm diversifying. I've now been entrusted to entertain and enlighten the already sparkling and brilliant readership of Jewcy. If you haven't strolled through their pages, you ought to. They are good people. Here is my first post. It's about the...

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how much better was my sunday night than yours?

I got to see all this at Radio City Music Hall and it was for AIDS charity. Here's a clip from the finale. You really must get 1:50 into this video to fully appreciate what happened....

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Stay Tuned.

Updates from the road just as soon as I can catch my breath....

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Free Range Nonfiction Reading Series

Thanks to everyone who came out and heckled my subpar jokes. Here's the last piece I read. An oldie but a goodie. The Blue Man My house here in France is covered in spiderwebs, but I don't dare touch...

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Work in Progress

Fucking is an old instrument. Charlie Parker’s sax. Edith Piaf’s sauternes pipes. The hair strands on the back of your neck. The old standards play in regular time, they play at 4/4 speed. They are a tangle of feather. The...

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Colon Cancer Challenge

What compels a man to run 15K (9.3 miles) in the 32-degree starkness of a March Sunday morning? Is it the search for self? The spirit of competition? Love for his colon and others (and their colons too)? Likely...

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Semicolons and Colons (events)

photo courtesy of Benjamin Schmidt TOMORROW!!! I will be reading at Cornelia Street Cafe along with a few other talented folks including Susan Orlean, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of several books including The Orchid Thief,...

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For You New Yorkers...

Come hear me read on Friday! And contact me for more details should you need them......

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Turkey Trot.

I don't even know what a "Turkey Trot" is, I am leery of things that are one species/synonym away from "Goose Step", but I will be embarking on a 10K journey in Houston, Texas on Thanksgiving morning in the...

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Can You Tell The Playoffs Are Coming?

We're going retro, almost twenty-six full hours back, to when you could comment on TFR without inciting a spam riot. If you keep digging back, you'll find Hakeem was once Akeem and the world was still right. Akeem The Dream...

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Pre-Passover Goodness

First things first...if your Saturday evening plans are in lack, I'd like to shamelessly plug the Festival of Chametz happening at the Knitting Factory. It's this Saturday night, and thus, your last chance to drink burr before Passover begins. That's...

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