Tag: Christmas

• Apparently, I Turned Into White Trash This Month

  While you all were spending the past month raving on about the latest things, like The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt or how fun it is to zing someone with the saying “Sorry…not sorry!”, I was slowly, inexplicably turning into white trash. I know not the origins of this transformation; I only know that I haven’t been this mortified since I led a bus…

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  2015-04-29

  Rants

  Christmas, Ed Hardy, Go West, Halloween, King of Wishful Thinking, Magic Mike, Moleskine, Roackstar Energy Drink, Sizzler, TED Talks, The New Yorker, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

• Maybe The Holidays Don’t Suck As Much As We Think

  We’ve reached another holiday season, and I’m a bit forlorn. As of this writing, I expected to be feted as a fellow with the International Blogging Institute at a ceremony in Newark, New Jersey. But…NEWS FLASH…it appears that there’s no such thing as the International Blogging Institute; it was a con to liberate me of $250 (made all…

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  2014-12-25

  Rants

  Centers for Disease Control, Christmas, Ebola, Langone Medical Center, National Center for Health Statistics, New Jersey, New York University, Newark, Nigeria, Red Roof Inn, REI, Utah

• Odds & Ends (Or, A Lame Excuse For Not Actually Writing A Post)

  The “random thoughts” column has been around for awhile. Normally given a moniker like “odds & ends” or “clearing out the desk drawer,” it’s basically an excuse for a columnist to throw out a bunch of disjointed observations and opinions in lieu of actually expending the energy to craft a coherent piece. It seems that…

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  2011-12-27

  Pop Culture, Rants

  Christmas, Facebook, Midnight in Paris, PETA, Tampax, Woody Allen