OK, so the other day I was riding my bike and I got stuck on a sidestreet behind a pest control truck.
Normally, bikers in Manhattan are kind of like octupii — we can slither around and squeeze between anything: pedestrians, trucks, mailboxes, etc. and so on. But every once in a while, the truck’s [...]

I dislike ceremony, tradition. Things like graduation ceremonies, marriage ceremonies, etc. and so on. These things generally bore the hell out of me at the same time as they perplex me.
The reason why I loathe them is that they just become rote behavior…like…OK, maybe in the first marriage ceremony it was touching that [...]