Is Boredom a Boring Topic? Wake Up and Let Us Know
High on my list of boring conversation topics is boredom itself.
Read MoreAre There Hidden Joys of Pet Non-Ownership?
For those of you who regularly follow this column (will you both please stand up?), you know I lost my beloved tabby, roommate, buddy and comic foil, Osborn the Magnificent, a few months after he turned 19 last year.
Read MoreCatering Or Cratering: An Event-Planning Memoir
If life were like the TV industry and I were a network executive, these are the 19 things I’d cancel (I had a 20th item but canceled it):
Read MoreAvatars and Anonymity: The (Evil-)Twin Secrets of Success
Many of us wish we could send in stunt doubles or even evil twins to withstand the slings and arrows of cringeworthy fortune.
Read MoreThe Nielsen TV Rating Company Won’t Be Canceled
I was surprised to learn a few weeks ago that the Nielsen ratings company was being sold for about 10 billion bucks. “Surprised” because I had no idea it even existed anymore.
Read MoreJason Wong Helps Fund Strapped Medical Students
It would be appropriate punishment to force anyone who thinks Millennials are a lazier-than-thou cohort to spend a week shadowing Jason Wong.
Read MoreYour Personal Tagline—Or, The Joys Of Fiction
Do you have a personal tagline? If not, I got here just in time. You might get popular at any minute. But without a catchy saying to define your essence, you’ll have bubkis (Yiddish for “nothing at all.” Also a smooch from William Frawley’s character on “My Three Sons”).
Read MoreClueless In Gaza (With Apologies to John Milton and Aldous Huxley)
When I was a kid, Mrs. Payne—my fifth-grade teacher at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in Lakewood, California—said I asked too many questions. I asked her why she thought that. This greatly amused my classmates as I headed out the door to the principal’s office.
Read MoreTrying Not to Join the Transplant Revolution
Our director of scientific research here at The Goldman State, Ken Eubie Leavitt, sent me a memo yesterday that made up for in enthusiasm what it may have lacked in depth, which perfectly fits this company’s culture.
Read MoreGet Ready for Home-Buying Season!
There has never been a better time to sell your house or condo! Except the last time it had never been a better time and the time before that.
Read MoreAre You a Robot? If So, Please Un-Subscribe
I’m tired of being asked if I’m a robot—especially since the one asking is a computer. Which itself is a robot.
Read MoreButter Up! An Obsession Not to Be Taken with a Grain of Salt
My name is Ed and I am addicted to unsalted butter.
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