How did I grow up in a family of cooks and never learn how to properly hard-boil an egg?

Sometimes camera phones can be useful. This was seen on the corner of Hawthorne and 9th-ish, walking back to my office from the liquor store with a fresh pack of smokes. It matched my mood at the time fairly well, although nothing in my life was particularly broken just then. The sentiment still resonated somehow. [...]

So I was at my friend D’s 30th birthday party the other night. Being situated so close to Halloween, one of his favourite birthday traditions is the Jack-o-lantern Totem Pole. This year, after construction was completed, he added a grand finale by digging up some unused fireworks, lighting them one by one and throwing them [...]

If you possess the same sense of humor that I do, you are totally cracking up right now.

Hmm, I just can’t imagine what those questions might be.

They’re really cracking down on this sort of thing these days.