A Picasso print was stolen years ago. Gone. Vanished. Goodbye, Picasso. Then suddenly, it reappeared hanging in a vacant Milwaukee apartment. Which raises several important psychological questions. First: Who hangs stolen art in an empty apartment? Second: How does a Picasso casually re-enter the storyline years later like […]
Apparently a woman went on a blind date and brought 23 family members with her. Twenty-three. At that point, it’s not a blind date. It’s a family reunion with one unsuspecting donor. The bill was $3,100. The man declined to pay and, honestly, I have questions but mostly […]
What’s the most annoying trope in books or movies? Gosh. I don’t know. There are so many contenders. But lately, after binge-watching an entirely unreasonable amount of BritBox, I’m noticing a pattern. The female detective who is slightly off. Odd. Socially uncomfortable. Probably lives alone. Sees patterns no […]
There is a Talking Heads song that has been living rent-free in my head lately. Once in a Lifetime. You know the one. You may not know the lyrics, but you know the feeling. You wake up one day and look around at your life and think: How […]
Every now and then I think about a rather inconvenient truth. Some of the people you are exhausting yourself trying to impress probably won’t be at your funeral. And I don’t mean that literally. Some will, perhaps. They’ll stand there, say something lovely, and tell everyone what a […]
There is a sunflower growing along my walking path to work in the Bronx. Not in a garden. Not in some carefully curated patch of soil. No. This sunflower has apparently decided that a tiny crack in the middle of a concrete sidewalk is an entirely reasonable place […]
For some people, the truth is not a fixed point. It’s a moving target. Today it’s over here. Tomorrow it’s somewhere across town. By Thursday, apparently, it was never there at all. And if you happen to live, work, love, or otherwise orbit someone with this particular relationship […]
Which fictional world would be the most fun to vacation in? If you could live in any fictional world, most people immediately say Harry Potter. And I get it. The moving staircases. The secret shops. The butterbeer. The fact that an owl can apparently handle the postal system […]
If you could go back and witness any historical event, which one would you pick? If I could go back and witness any moment in history, I initially thought I should choose something suitably Important. A presidential inauguration. A great military victory. The signing of some document that […]
I miss being obsessed with a TV show. Not “Oh, I watched a few episodes while folding laundry” obsessed. I mean obsessed. Lost. Breaking Bad. The Walking Dead. The kind of obsessed where an episode ended and you immediately needed to discuss it with another human being, preferably […]
