Good Grief!

Wow, so this is nature. Specifically, this is the Upper Delaware river, near Lackawaxen, PA (New York is over on the left). The water was so warm and inviting that I didn’t mind falling off the dock onto swarms of tadpoles.
Please, a moment of silence for the tadpoles who will never fulfill their […]

Approximately four more hours before I ditch the soulless office park and get ready for the great outdoors. Before signing off, however, I must tell you many important things.

These songs can turn you gay! Thanks to secret comics for directing me to the Weekly World News, because I don’t already subscribe to enough stupid feeds.
In […]

This summer will be all about getting out of the gym and getting back to nature. And by nature, I mean a lodge with indoor plumbing. In three short days, a Poconos rafting and hiking weekend commences, and later in the summer there are plans to learn about kayaking in the Jersey Pine Barrens*.
This surge […]

At Fatou and Fama on Friday night, over some of Clair’s hand-crafted, award-winning Belgian Tripel, I heard two disturbing tales of bizarre male behavior. Delicious pastry items play an important role in both stories, and I’m still trying to discover the connection.
A friend of Clair’s—let’s call him Howard—had been out with a woman several […]

The Market Report is a weekly column written by Ken Klein of Klein’s Supermarket in Philadelphia’s Fairmount neighborhood. He writes the column for the Art Museum Area News and kindly allows me to post it here. The report is a fascinating look at the forces that drive the quality and price of our […]