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Tracy Morgan is that dude. If you aren’t familiar with his role on 30 Rock, you are missing the best thing to hit television since Arrested Development. Tracy had a minor role in Totally Awesome (a VH1 movie from 2006 set in the 1980’s) which was a terrible made for t.v. movie, but his [...]

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Fell off my bicycle last night around 3 a.m. due to severe…exhaustion. No blood, just injured pride. I wish I had an entertaining story to accompany the event but the truth is I realized too late that the kebab shop closed at 3 and I had the “pedal to the metal” trying to get there [...]

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Beaten Thursdays

“It’s fun to do bad things.” This kid needs his own reality show…and maybe a positive male role model.

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Living abroad can be incredibly educational, exciting and personally enlightening. At the same time, there are so many downsides and frustrating experiences that I often wonder whether its worth it or not. Fortunately, the inter-web shortens the gap between “home” and “passed out in a kebab spot 5,000 km from the nearest relative.” Still, I [...]

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Today I wasted over an hour fruitlessly shopping online for gifts for my nephews. Where have all of the cool cartoons/toys gone? I cannot have my nephews looking up to Frodo and Spongebob – they need some virile, animated role models to show them how to beat up communists and manipulate villains.
This search for cool, [...]

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Guest post number two from my main man and everyone’s favorite inappropriate uncle: Josh. This is for MOTHER RUSSIA…a picturebook

I recently returned from a week-long odyssey that took me to the largest and
probably craziest country in the world, Russia. I consider myself a well
traveled soul and in all my vagabond exploits, I have never [...]

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Hello New World

At some point in every man’s life, he discovers that he is too old to wear white, cotton, tube socks. I do not know what the average age is for this discovery, but if you are 25 and still wear tubes on a regular basis, you missed the memo.

On more than one occasion since arriving [...]

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Ready Forum

Recent travels have inevitably led me to the conclusion that ninety per cent of European cities look the same…

Low rise buildings on narrow, oft-cobblestoned/walking mixed-use streets…

…anchored by churches

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