Amen.

Ever wonder what happened to all those kids who used to just shove papers into their backpacks in elementary and middle school? Do you yearn to understand how their chaotic behavior impacted their futures? Spoiler alert: It did not impact them well. As a former paper-crammer, the concepts of structure, organization, and focus are pretty damn foreign to me. And I'm really trying. I've got a planner, I've got a to-do list, I've got alerts and habit trackers galore. But it's still not enough to ge…

“Im genuinely losing sleep over this. He was so sweet and my dog is a menace…”

Hockey is by far one of the most fun sports to watch live. When I go to a football game, they don't have to enclose the crowd behind tall transparent walls fans can bang to express their spirit. I know when I'm going to a baseball game, I'm not going to see a physical brawl between the second baseman and the shortstop. When I go to the U.S. Figure Skating National Championships, I don't expect the doubles team to get in a fight so brutal, one of them needs to be sequestered into a clear box for…

The coffee's not helping

The shock of a lifetime

Hello, hello, hello. We meet again. Why? Because it's Tuesday, and that's when we go through all the Lord of the Rings memes we've seen this week and picked the ones we liked the best. And as a warning, we need to add that sometimes they include Rings of Power spoilers. So proceed with caution. Spoilers aside, we're kind of glad that Amazon's Rings of Power just celebrated its season finale. While there have been ups and downs, it's been a bit miserable picking through the memes to make sure th…

WTF

There's no shortage of stories about incompetent managers driving their skilled staff away with terrible ideas about how they should be doing their jobs, and this post recently shared on r/MaliciousCompliance is a perfect example. For those who want the TL;DR: basically, OP worked at a sales job where they had a fantastic manager who treated his staff like human beings and gave them the freedom to do their jobs in whatever way worked best for them. As long as everyone was hitting their targets,…

But don't call me cheap

English entertainer James Corden is an easy target. His entire presence, to some, can only be defined as “cringe.” The singing, the bumbling about, the Top 40 squeals and that godawful ‘ Carpool Karaoke, ’ in which he seems to want to make everything about him. His presence, to us, is grating, but we've never heard of him committing some sort of moral or ethical crime against humanity. Until now. Thanks to restaurateur Keith McNally, who owns NYC institutions Balthazar, Pastis, and Minetta Tave…

It always disturbs me to learn that there are people out there who eat to live. Sure, we all technically eat to live, but it's insane that there are people who just don't care about, or even remotely enjoy, eating. I'm talking about Maggie, the yuppie I met years ago who wished that she could power her body with a pill taken just once a day. More disturbing was the day I learned she was on an actual Clif bar diet for over a month. Repulsive. We haven't seen each other in about twelve years, and…

Nearly everything in the modern world moves at a pace that would kill a medieval peasant girl. The level of productivity has shot up, and it doesn't look like it will dwindle anytime soon. That reality is because we're all conditioned to do things unbelievably quickly. The about of stuff we are expected to do each day is genuinely baffling. We need to shower, make three meals, go to work, do a good job at work, eat three meals, and reflect on your day, which doesn't even mention socializing, le…

It's been years since I had a dog of my own. Taking care of the energetic beasts isn't an easy feat, and it doesn't exactly suit the urban lifestyle - especially in New York City where we pay exorbitant rents for shoebox-sized apartments. While I happily accept my new cat-person identity, I enthusiastically enjoy dogs vicariously. This means cooing over photos of my friends' dogs, or spending time cuddling with my parents' adorable (and huge) canine companions. No disrespect to my cats, but the…

"I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey."

I am so, so, so glad that I don't have Celiac disease or some other kind of disorder that means I can't eat gluten. Gluten rules. While bread takes a lot of the glutenous glory, we're firm believers that pasta is the best gluten product by far. It's versatile. It's international. It's a comforting, rib-sticking meal on a bad day, or a celebratory feast on a good one. Back when I was working at a Mediterranean restaurant on the Upper East Side, I actually got in trouble for selling the pasta spe…