2008

matt and i did another big book purge this week. i do it every time that i move, but i hadn’t...

today is matthew’s 28th birthday. i think that one of my gifts to him will be letting him talk...

the celebrity in this case is me, john...

kfan: I love this meme. You are in a mall when the zombies attack. You have:1. One weapon.2. One...

we’ve listened to belle & sebastian’s “get me away from here, i’m...

wait, am i alone in feeling that “wang” is the funniest word for penis? come on: WANG.

i want to be friends with, installment...

kfan: We call this “Dinner Guests” at our house, i.e. the famous people we would like to have over...

i want to be friends with, installment...

pierre bernard, of late night with conan o’brien nate dern, the singer in the star wars band...

milo and i were walking home from wild oats yesterday when a...

is my attraction to guys in western style shirts and tight jeans to be blamed on growing up in texas...

matt just called milo a “hassle,” (specifically: “you, my friend, are a...

remember how good of a movie you thought tremors was when it came out? kevin bacon! the dad from...

The Indy Rules

mokin: For an Indiana Jones movie to succeed, it must have: Nazis an opening not directly related...

matt is desperately trying to convince me that nurses in labor and delivery wards used to suck the...

this just in

U2’s joshua tree: still fucking awesome.

that takes the cake

my 80-year-old aunt printed out an email forward and mailed it to me. you know, through the postal...

every once in a while, when milo wakes up from his nap, the very first thing he does after opening...

when someone says: “please let me know if you’re interested,” do you take this to...

we get it; it's good for you

something that irritates me about veg cookbooks is that so many of them start with a 10-20 page...

“jimmy would not like this picture of her. it makes her neck...”
— matt, while editing photos...

phila-dummy

we discovered this morning that i’ve never seen a sylvester stallone movie. nope. not a one.

michael: crips? bloods?
darryl: both. and the latin kings. warriors. newsies.

even with my bright pink hair, katie managed to make us look...

anjalouise: My friend Alice just told me that after you have your baby, the hospital is required to...

i called into the best show last night for the first time. it was terrifying. scharpling, wurster,...

today goes down as the day where i stopped trying to enjoy coffee without sugar. i’ve been...

matt and i are arguing over whether it’s more appropriate to describe george stephanopoulos as...

do you ever disbelieve that someone is really as into something as they make themselves out to be?...

will someone please invent a word that appropriately sums up the anguish you have when you realize...

“doe, a deer, a female deer. ray, a pocket full of sun.”
— matt, singing to our son in...

my age and my ability to quickly rattle off my top five favorite bands of the moment are inversely...

i gain a perverse amount of respect when i discover that someone i know who’s in a happy...

i just used the street view feature of google maps to look at the streets of the houses in the...

the word “webinars” really makes me want to cut people.