Bart asked below if I ever heard from Lionel (LEE-oh-nel, for all you Americans) again, the European ex-boyfriend, and since I got a couple emails with the same question, I thought I’d just tell ya’ll about it:
We email or write every couple months, and he called last week on the two-year anniversary of his leaving. [...]

Do you ever wonder about your exes? Since I’m a relatively young man, and not a complete and total whore, I technically only have two ex-boyfriends.
Is two exes a lot for my age? Is it very few? How does one judge these things?
I don’t know what it is lately, but last post I was pondering [...]

I feel so old. At lunch today, I looked around at all these 12 year-olds in the restaurant and asked Megan, “Is school out today?” She looked at me, eyebrows raised and said, “No, why?” Just as I was about to explain, one of those 12 year-olds drove by in a BMW. And I mean [...]

Last night during the late news we ran a brief piece on spaying and neutering dogs and cats—typical C-block (after the last commercial) fluff.
This morning, my phone line that takes viewer comment calls had the following messages. Note that listening is significantly better than merely reading these, so my apologies if you don’t find this [...]

When I was in New York a couple weeks ago, I was waiting for the uptown 1/9 at Canal Street when I noticed 6 teenage girls and two middle-aged women—all white—looking absolutely terrified. The girls were huddled around the women, trying to look nonchalant as they clutched each other and their bags, glancing around uneasily [...]

Today on the freeway I passed the truck of a company that specializes in putting up scaffolding for construction projects. Painted on the side of the truck was a simple drawing and the name of the business.
I laughed so hard I nearly wet myself.
I can only imagine the inquiries they get with a truck (and [...]

Though it’s not like my posts are usually hysterically hilarious, my thoughts right now are downright serious.
You’ve been warned.
I just got home from seeing Far From Heaven. I thought it was brilliant and very beautiful, but I’m not a very tough critic when it comes to movies, just TV.
It did make me think, though [...]

After just over three hours, I finally solved my first Rubik’s Cube. What a pain in the ass, but I was determined to do it. At first, I felt very smart for figuring it out.
Then I realized that only a real dummy would spend three hours all alone in a room with a small [...]

Ok, now I’m pissed. I just finished a very long post about last week and last night, hit “publish,” and got a page not found error.
I had to reload the page and, you guessed it, everything’s gone.
I’ll summarize, but realize that originally this post was witty and very entertaining.
Work has been insane in the last [...]

The following are totals from my recent trip to NYC:
Days spent: 8
Visits to Virgin MegaStore: 2
Visits to Tower Records: 2
Visits to random independent Village CD stores: 7
CDs purchased: 9 (Could have been soooooooo much worse)
Pairs of Camper shoes purchased: 1 (Hey, last time it was 3!)
NY pizza slices consumed: 5
Art purchased from street artists: 2 [...]