Even before the recent confession in these pages to possibly deviant peeing practices, I’d conceived of writing a post addressing the topic of men and urinating. This idea grew out of an incident at a baseball game on a very hot Saturday afternoon a couple weeks ago.
After drinking about a liter and a half of [...]
Extra! Extra! In the spirit of that dead-tree medium I love so well, but by means of this here “new media” vehicle, I hereby offer the Hot News Flashes of the day:
1. Oprah is not gay. In this month’s O magazine, Oprah informs a breathless public that she and her best friend Gayle King are [...]
This month is my one-year anniversary of living in New York. I grew up in the West and didn’t even see New York until I was in my 20s (seven years ago this month). That first, brief visit gobsmacked me. Even though the city was in the grip of a maniacal heat wave with temperatures [...]
Saturday afternoon we met our friend Joanna at Wahoo’s, a taco joint near Manhattan Beach, where we ordered a sack full of blackened fish tacos and other goodies to take down to the beach. Parking would suck, Joanna had told us, and the beach would be a zoo, but it was near other commitments we had that morning and [...]
I’m an amateur gardener, which will not be a surprise if you know I’m English, because that is what you expect. But, learning to garden has been a hard process for me over the past five years. I essentially destroyed the garden I inherited, then failed to sustain the new version, then finally cracked the [...]