The institutional financial cost of curiosity and life experimentation
Your Marriage Isn’t Typical
January 7, 2013 by 32 Comments
Sadly, our most common criticisms of marriage reveal much more about the critics than the state of contemporary romance.
Daddy Pick-Up
January 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment
I am defined by what I love. That includes the ritual of getting my son from school.
Is Selling Your Name The Same As Selling Your Identity?
December 11, 2012 by 1 Comment
What does it say about a person, when they are willing to sell even their last name for profit?
What Is a Good Man?
October 1, 2012 by 7 Comments
With quotes from friends and famous folks alike, Tom Matlack finds that defining goodness is not science, it’s art.
Improvisational Training Like Athletes
September 17, 2012 by 1 Comment
We want to be consistently excellent on stage, but we are often afraid to do the work it takes to get to that level. I wonder what would happen if we trained for improv like athletes train for games.
The Proper Way To Share Your Junk
September 7, 2012 by 4 Comments
“You keep it classy, San Diego.” Ron Burgundy, Anchorman
The Grasshopper Life
September 1, 2012 by 2 Comments
To his old girlfriends, Robert Barsanti’s father would always be Romeo. But for Robert, Benito was Lear.
Should Christians Smoke Marijuana?
August 8, 2012 by 37 Comments
“When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point.” –Barack Obama
What Can Happen to You When You Read
July 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Jamie Iredell brings us on a rollicking tour of his life through books.
Comfortably Numb, Stupidly Unashamed: Rielle Hunter and Serial Apathy
July 8, 2012 by 7 Comments
If all that is needed to become a celebrity is to have an affair with one, writes Ken Goldstein, have we become a species that has amused itself to death?
On Being a Good Man
June 26, 2012 by 78 Comments
There is a difference between being a good man and being good at being a man. An excerpt from Jack Donovan’s book, ‘The Way of Men.’
Pygmy Although I Am Not a Spy, Or the Nose
April 2, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Pygmy Although I Am Not a Spy, Or The Nose Pygmy, the inevitable spy, Bing “Pygmy.” Now all in the window light like Eugene Atget from France, Paris, Google-Bing “Eugene Atget Greatest Photographer Like Larry Bird Ballplayer” (I be white, tee-hee).” I am in to vitamins, oil pulling and amino acids. Something eventually like [...]
Email as if in Dublin
February 16, 2012 by 2 Comments
Email as if in Dublin I have scoured the computer box six days now, My email, tipped and drained in Dublin, And the broad I consider is from Dublin, too, I think. I chomp a bitter pipe between my 56 teeth, Irrelevant sometimes irreverent, tragic, boring, alone, inebriated, masturbated, Then hung over by silly, [...]
“Just check out Shakespeare, or world history of the last 5 thousand years. There is nothing new under the sun.”
This comment was by Paul Hurst on Tom Matlack’s post “The Disease of More.”