Scotch, Bourbon and Rye - oh my! Ron Swanson, the man who poignantly stated that the Chuckie Cheese business model is better than our current government's, once noted that, "Clear alcohols are for rich women on diets" and Lagavulin Scotch Whisky is a "Nectar of the Gods." Whiskey was once solely reserved for grandfathers to drink while … [Read more...]

We hunt virtual Pokémon. Every so often when my head is in the clouds and I get mildly existential, I wonder what this decade will be remembered for.  As a kid born in the 80's (*late 80s), the 90s were a golden period of time that will never be touched, replicated or glorified enough. Fast forward to the 2000s, and society was graced with 10 … [Read more...]

It could be your treasure. One of my best friends from Cape Cod came to visit me a few weeks ago and his first remark when venturing out one morning was, "This city literally reeks of hot trash." The only thing more disgusting is that I don't agree, which basically renders me the Hellen Keller of human waste odors.  Much more than in the … [Read more...]

The Lower Lower East Side - this constitutes as the weird bubble that isn't the Lower East Side, isn't Chinatown and isn't Two Bridges. In my eyes, this is one of the most exciting, happening and quickly changing areas downtown. Rewind three years ago and I regularly made the trek across Delancey to either the black hole of conscious time, known … [Read more...]

Under the Sea Edition. Because Finding Dory came out a few days ago and I spent another 5+ hours on Nationalgeographic.com tonight, it's time to dig up another profession from the childhood vault of dead dream jobs: a marine biologist. I'm going to say it was because I wanted to save the Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtles but essentially it's the closest … [Read more...]