Five Styles of Smoked Salmon in Five Minutes There are a few non-income-generating things in life I'm truly passionate about: the American Revolution, Running, Adventures, Breakfast, and (sub-breakfast) Smoked Salmon. If you've spent more than 20 minutes with me, the topic of Lox has most likely been heavily breeched.  It's so bad that my phone … [Read more...]

Ow'l bet you're just a hoot   We've all had those Mornings. The ones during which you become one with the couch; your physical labor for the day maxes out at lying horizontally on cushions; your earthly existence screeches to complete halt; you chose to take a sharp detour off of the highway of self-loathing onto the bumpy off-road of pure … [Read more...]

Savagely, yet Beautifully, destroyed by McSweeny's THE POLAR EXPRESS, AS RUN BY THE METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY - by Will Quinn a THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS by Colin Nissan … [Read more...]

Five coffee scenes and dangerous levels of caffeine I was once a Starbucks barista. Yes, as imagined, it was kind of a complete disaster. Highlights: I got in trouble for writing "Oprah" on my name tag, killed time by switching between writing "Voldemort" and "Tupac" on every other cup for a few days, once had 12 shots of espresso in 5 hours and … [Read more...]

Spoiler: Skip the Carmen Sandiego Antics and look here   So I spent a solid 20 minutes trying to find the address for this slice of heaven, which is extremely difficult most likely to thwart people like myself. You would have to be a sociopath to not find the below cottage utterly magical - I think the only cons are limited availability of … [Read more...]