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Delving into Midwood and Marine Park in southern Brooklyn.
The dentist told me to press on it as hard as I could. That is what constituted an anesthetic in Yugoslavia.
A walk of penance for pictures after Thanksgiving.
A dismal memory of childhood angst.
Babies have to eat all the time, and they will let you know about it.
You might think this is the set-up for a sob story, but it’s not.
Michel Houellebecq’s Serotonin is an elegy for erections and the EU.
When firemen relied on watchtowers and lookout men.
She grew up during a time when nobody talked about mental illness, so she never got the help she needed.
In 2009-2010, the old Yankee Stadium underwent a long-drawn out demolition after its successor opened (by the contrast, the city tore down Shea Stadium mere months after the Mets moved out).
Ancient truths from my 10-year-old self.
Singing to my daughter in bed and hearing her sing mornings later.
A review of terms coopted this year.
Henry Ford introduced the five-day, 40-hour week for his employees in 1926.
Narcissism in the Internet Infinity Room.
There’s only us to blame.
Who replaced your brain with a simple mechanism stuck on repeat?
Burning money as protest is still a taboo.
Maybe the MD's of the Twitterverse can offer some wisdom.
Paleocon Diary (#200).
Tim Pool and Dave Rubin say they're liberals, but offer zero critiques of conservatives.
Writing and recording poems every week for a newborn daughter.
Dad was a humble giant, at least to his five sons.
I’m an old cowhand.
As a teenager, I was a walking zit.
The brilliant Absolut Vodka advertising hustle of the late-1980s.
I don’t scream for ice cream.
American social polarization is exaggerated.
Ninety-Nine percent of baseball fans don’t care if a free agent inks deal for $100 or $140 million.
Black eyes are going around like the flu.
