My preference would be a home theater of sufficient size to emulate being in cinema except only people I invite in get tickets. Since I can’t have that I enjoy going to the movies —but the people there are never, ever, ever, EVER part of what makes me enjoy it. It is the scope and sound. At best people around me are a…

Smells are widely considered one of human kind’s most powerful memory triggers. Unless you’ve got a bottle of that person’s scent, there was no reasonable way for you to prepare yourself for that experience and you did great handling it. Absolutely fantastic. 30 minutes is nothing! Hell, there are some of us who…

Seriously, that last part “Don’t roll your eyes at me...” made me say FUCK YEAH in my head. 

Think long and hard about the most mortifying things you’ve ever done. The fires of shame will keep you warm.

Genuine curiosity: why do you feel Wolf of Wall Street is a guide, not cautionary? I found it trenchant and impartial. It never idealizes its subject. It looks unblinking at the tragedy of Belfort’s victims — the suicide is presented as an afterthought, precisely the mindset of a sociopath — and it eschews…

Only 24 hours in a day, only 12 notes a man can play

Saw this was an article about samples.

My favorite fashion purchase in 2014.

There will never be a post about notorious RBG where this picture is not appropriate.

To be fair, a dating site from Steve Harvey (or any dating site) should be judged if/when it actually grows past infancy. Harvey's web site is most likely targeted towards his most ardent fans; late 30s, 40s or 50-somethings who might be re-entering the dating scene after a very long time — long-term marriages ending…

Ghost Town by the Specials. Ghost Town version 2 by The Specials. Covers of Ghost Town.

The classic, "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus.

There's a cool woman I work with named Rocksand. I asked her how her parent's came up with that name, because it was so unique. She sighed a loooong time and said they thought that was what Sting was singing in Roxanne and didn't know how to spell it correctly. There really wasn't anything I could say at that…