Once I again I want to chime in on the uselessness of tradition. And in this case, not only the uselessness, but the actual net negative that comes from getting set in our ways. In the United States, we have this idiotic tradition known as Daylight Savings Time.
The tradition works like this: […]
Yeah, I get what they were trying for…but I couldn’t help but laugh when I saw that slogan on a girl’s tee shirt on the subway in Beijing.
Surfer Dreams Is Wet. Indeed.
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I decided to pop into The King tonight and purchase a delicious double cheeseburger. There was a rather large, and, as it turns out, rather surly man in line ahead of us. We walked in right after he ordered, and the girl behind the counter was giving him his tray of food.
The man […]
I have to confess, sometimes I can spend an embarassingly long time doing the stupidest things. For instance, the other day, I was standing in a drug store near my apartment, and I was agonizing over a very difficult choice: what kind of dryer sheets to buy. Ten minutes into this adventure, […]
Walking down Second Avenue today, and overheard this lovely gem. Three guys were walking down the street, and one of them was apparently regaling the other two with tales of his new girlfriend.
guy: …yeah, but this new girl, she knows what time it is. Right now, everything’s cool, but I told her if […]
Excuse me while I digress into a rant about this hurricane Katrina nonsense.
I am most definitely not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV, but I think I have a reasonably understanding of something called “criminal negligence”. I think this basically means when your inaction was so negligent, that it is conceptually the […]
Humans have control issues. We reside in a basically chaotic universe, where shit just happens, all around us, all the time, and we have absolutely no control over it. Mother nature erupts lava into our neatly organized towns, she moves the ground under our feet and topples our carefully constructed buildings. An asteroid might come […]
Riding my bike home from a basketball game, and I saw a guy on rollerblades…probably a teenage kid…just totally fall on his ass.
This was funny enough…but he did it near an intersection where a lot of cars were waiting at a red light, and one of the drivers rolls down his window and yells “Hey […]
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 […]