I read in today’s NY Times about an NBC executive who came to the sudden defense of the chin–also known as Jay Leno–who has been attacked recently by his fellow late-night talk show hosts. Ebersol says its gutless, and ‘chicken hearted’ for Conan to be mad at Jay, because the […]
It’s a whirlwind of a day and finally, the cafe is chugging on all eight cylinders, shaking off a lousy few weeks of post-holiday doldrums. With my most excellent staff handing all of the soup and pannini making, I had time to do what I should be doing, publishing stories […]
A new study finds that couples who do more housework have more sex on average than those who slack on keeping the house tidy. After interviewing almost 7,000 couples about their household chores and frequency of sex, researchers found a direct correlation between the two. More housework completed = more […]
photo by Kyle Hammons
I just got back from bringing my grandson Nathan to school. It’s less than a half mile from my house, and the same tiny distance from my office. As I drove home I thought about the difference between my life in 2010, and my car-oriented life of 2004. I used […]
I tore an op-ed piece out of one of last week’s WSJ’s because it both worried and reassured me. It was about asteroids, one of which is expected to nearly hit the earth in 2032. It’s a long time from now, but in Russia, they are gearing up to actually […]
Last night I watched a Spike Lee movie. It was terrible, and it was very long. Amazingly, I kept on until the bitter end, until the last bullet hole was drilled into a body with spurting blood, until the final Nazi machine gunner was thrown down and the last leg […]
“Watch your mouth. Don’t use those curse words!” Faris chastised the only Jewish member of the FBI investigative team as they surveyed the damage from a massive bombing and shooting attack at an American compound in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We were watching a 2007 film called “The Kingdom” […]
We had a visit last night from a tall Chinese student named Sitian. He is a computer science major at UMass, and he applied for an internship with GoNOMAD. For the first time, the roles were reversed, and we were in a new position of really, really wanting him to […]
I don’t know about you but I can’t remember another time when I was so glad to be back to our regular routine…no more holiday days off, no more closed cafe, no more distractions from the good work that we all love. No, it’s simply, finally, Monday morning, January 4, […]
Have you ever taken out a payday loan? These loans are famous in working-class and minority neighborhoods and can add up to as much as 400% annual interest! In Virginia, the state is trying out a new program that offers cash-strapped workers a way to avoid the trap of these […]
My friend Johnny Jet presented a digest of all of his 2009 travels, and it inspired me to do the same. I often wonder just when I went to a certain place, so publishing the full record is a good way for me to remember them. Below is my 2009 […]