Buy Or Don’t Buy

Apparently Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) has been doing the Twitter thing for a while now.  I must admit, I was previously influenced by my interpretation of his personal brand as America’s Zany Prankster Bro, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the topics he Tweets about! He’s a big proponent of Social Media, and has actually been doing some fun [...]

Ok, so I drink a lot of bottled water.  Sorry guys.  I know it’s supposed to be really selfish or whatever, but that’s a personal branding choice I’m willing to make.  I get thirsty!
Anyway, I’m not sure how I feel about this advance in packaged water design.  On one hand, I can’t really picture myself [...]

“…one nation, UNDER GOD, with liberty and justice for all”
So, my family used to be Catholic, right? Every Sunday it was a huge struggle to wrangle the entire family into their Sunday best and make the march up the street to St. Stephens. Such a struggle, that apparently sometimes my dad wouldn’t even [...]

You know how sometimes you’re cold hard chllin in Red Hook, and you’re kinda drunk but you know the general direction you need to walk to get back towards civilization?  Well we were almost to that point tonight when we stumbled upon an empty bus.  This was no ordinary empty bus, it was an empty [...]

Come to Fabulous New York City, where even our bums have Ivy League educations!
Hail a taxi cab driven by a former banker who used to pull six figures a year.  Now he’s pulling his lunch cooler off the front seat so that your little brother has a place to sit.  Shoulda waited for a minivan [...]

I know it seems sort of counter-intuitive for a blog to start advocating that you turn off your computer, rub your tired eyes, and step out into the daylight.  But it’s not like we have any advertising to sell you, so I really don’t care!  
Get the fuck outside.  Take in some vitamin D (via [...]

Like most of you, I have to mail my rent check to the landlord every month. This is honestly the only time I ever use the postal system here, and every time I do, I say a little prayer that the tiny piece of paper standing between me and coming home to see all [...]

I hate to get all Lou Dobbs up in here, but I’ve been reading about a little mentioned provision in all of these ‘Economic Stimuli’ bills floating about. It’s called the ‘Buy American’ Act, and it states that the US should favor American made products in all federally subsidized projects. With all the [...]

I thought I lost my debit card recently. Of course, in the panic of discovering it was missing, and the prospect of losing all the money in my account, I called the bank to cancel my card. I was relieved there had been no charges on it since the last time I remember [...]

Yeah, I’m sure he’s a great guy. Yeah, I was endeared by the Oliver Stone biopic movie ‘W’. But remember way back in like 2003 when most of the civilized world wanted this man’s head on a platter? Sure, five or six years is enough to chill some people out. Forgiveness [...]