by Adam | Thursday 18 February 2010
Sun sneezing is a real phenomenon and not just a myth. The usual cause of a sneeze is an irritation or blockage in the nasal passages; when we sneeze, air is forced from the nose and mouth to get rid...
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by Adam | Wednesday 27 January 2010
Friends, I hope you all will pause with me to mark to the 100th anniversary of the death of Thomas P. Crapper, the famous English plumber who helped revolutionize numerous components of what we know today as the modern...
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by Adam | Wednesday 5 August 2009
I am not afraid to admit to having rescue fantasies that involve William Jefferson Clinton....
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by Adam | Tuesday 16 June 2009
My big sister left valuable commentary to my characteristically overwritten previous post. I thought it deserved it's own space. :o) It is important (well, maybe not important, but mildly relevant) to note that in VA, the paper targets that have...
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by Adam | Monday 9 March 2009
The day started sunny and we weren't looking for trouble, my friend and I went all the way uptown near where he used to live. It was the second nicest day of the year and there was traffic blocking...
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by Adam | Sunday 15 February 2009
Dictionary.com's Word of the Day continue to inspire small titters across the interwebs and especially for analytical (read: jaded) minds. February 14 myopia \mahy-OH-pee-uh\, noun: 1. an abnormal eye condition in which only closeup objects are seen clearly; nearsightedness 2....
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by Adam | Thursday 29 January 2009
The story goes like this: the combination of gin and microphones caused in me a social imbalance the upshot of which led to (among other things) a certainty in the sufferer's recollection of violent rap lyrics and the loud...
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by Adam | Saturday 1 November 2008
For those who want to sing along at home: I bought a Dell I bought a Dell I bought a Dell When the towers fell. Seven years later Seven years later Seven years later Still got haters But I...
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by Adam | Sunday 28 September 2008
Based on an essay by Edmund Wilson. In Jackson Square, the spidermums, spotted in Newport ash, are blooming like supplicants. A pack of cougars, celebrating a second marriage at the Magnolia bakery, are flaunting plastic diadems. In Central Park,...
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by Adam | Monday 8 September 2008
My apologies for being out of touch lately, I've been working on larger, non-blog projects. An example of one: This is a subway ad for a new television series on CBS called The Mentalist. Apparently on this show, Simon Baker...
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by Adam | Monday 7 July 2008
If I've been delinquent in my blogging, it's been because I've been immersed in the summer trend that's been cauterizing my age bracket without remorse...the wedding season. These events insulate me, not like a slowly sled brushfire, but like a...
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by Adam | Friday 16 May 2008
The next day I started reading Goodbye, Columbus. The End...
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by Adam | Sunday 13 April 2008
Everyday Italian on the Food Network is Borderline Pornography Author's Note: I am well aware of the last shreds of dignity that blogging about this topic strips me of. I appreciate your continued support. AC Like any flaneur who becomes...
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by Adam | Saturday 8 March 2008
Sometimes, my friends interrupt my life to impose imperatives upon me. This has to be, in a lot ways, what friendship is about. The closest of them will demand (as I probably do too often of them) that I stop...
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by Adam | Saturday 2 February 2008
It is Saturday; always start with time. To follow: I am in my apartment. I've decided to make it a Sabbath. I worked Friday night and it was slow until friends and regulars stopped by and we all just...
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by Adam | Sunday 20 January 2008
Day Two: Jetlag Above the Kinneret, 6:44 A.M. I was stranded like a vessel on the water; I put faith in nature and set myself adrift, isn't that how all epics begin: a tide of repose and resignation, a tide...
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by Adam | Monday 24 December 2007
Author's Note: I am writing this late at night. Finish this whole piece. Go see the movie. In the morning, I was sick, not from anything other than a lack of health, a full throat, a funny dream where I...
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by Adam | Sunday 25 November 2007
For the reader unaware, condensed visits to my native Houston with their albatrosses and communal inspections often annoy me with a considerable flagrance (and possibly make me insane). I invoke last year's Thanksgiving ramble as a primer for a dilettante...
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by Adam | Monday 27 November 2006
Innocuous vanity plates or symptom of a larger malady? Read on to find out. In the five minutes after I depart Houston Hobby airport in my mother's semi-old silver Volvo, I encounter the billboard of the ages. I was shocked...
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