Subscribe to a newspaper A few weeks ago I was up early on a Friday and stumbled into a Starbucks. My mission was to snag a copy of The Wall Street Journal, so I could flip through the mansion section to get a good sampling of my crushing failure in life. It’s …
Alternative holiday movies There are some holiday movies that you can’t escape this time of year, no matter how they good they are – “A Christmas Story,” “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” and “A Christmas Carol,” among them. However, two of my top five movies of all time are tangentially Christmas movies, so …
Cyber Monday Its the most wonderful time of the year… for excessive spending. You got that new Apple or Amazon Card? Of course you do. Whelp, here’s your chance to put it to use! Cyber Monday is today, and you don’t even need to get off of the couch to waste a …
Stay up late for the Great Pumpkin Much like Christmas, Halloween isn’t complete without a screening its corresponding Peanuts holiday special, which in this case is the immortal “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.” The thing is only about 20 minutes long, so you can throw it on while you’re getting into …
Go for a fall drive, soundtracked by me I’ve made an autumn driving specifically designed to make you feel wistful and melancholy, just like fall. Put it on and go for a ride: -CR Matthew’s Green Chile Recipe In this day and age, its nearly impossible to rip the iPads or iTelephones …
Book your goddamn holiday flights Buying tickets for vacation is stressful, even if it’s for something you love (use your imagination here, as Mai Thais on the beach don’t do it for me). The reason I bring this up is to remind you that you are not a savant of booking tickets …
If anything, I would consider myself somewhat of an agnostic pagan; not really sure what’s out there, but mostly certain that gods are a manifestation of our desires and needs, a la American Gods. In that universe, there are a lot of demi-gods, more every day, constantly reinventing themselves at the whims …
