Good morning. I wake up at 7:00am, a half hour before my alarm, the iPhone preset Sencha, goes off. I open the patio door to check the weather, and as expected, the sun’s rays hit me in a windless fury,
May 25 – Ian McKellen gets a day in my life
May 24 – Tommy Chong gets a prescient kid pleased with the result
My partner’s office had a cereal buffet the other day, and for some reason she took home all the leftovers. Froot Loops, Cap’n Crunch, Cocoa Puffs, Reese Puffs – basically the junkiest cereals around. All pure sugar, all delicious as
May 20 – Louis Theroux gets a partially philanthropic experiment
The other day, I evidently created a Craigslist post that I had no recollection of making until opening my email the next morning. Accompanied by the image preceding this paragraph, it said, “Does anyone want anything? Anything at all? There’s
May 19 – Peter Mayhew gets a toasty toast to a like-bodied friend
You’re obviously best known for playing a furry friend, a faithful companion whose cuteness keeps him from ever getting into any real trouble. Well so is Toast. If you don’t know Toast, well he’s just fantastic. Whoever said that Muhammad
May 18 – Chantal Kreviazuk gets a noodlish tale of transformative proteins
In celebration of National Noodle Day, Noodlebox is having a deal on their flagship dish, the spicy peanut noodle box. It’s just $5, plus the varying extra cost of the protein. I can’t pass it up, so I head over
May 16 – Pierce Brosnan gets our brief encounter and the examination of fame that it incited
Fame changes people’s lives, for the worse. We have all heard similar lines throughout our lives, and we accept them as truths, but we also assume our respective friends are immune to such superficiality. I want success, and I want
May 1 – Tim McGraw gets over-heards and their hypothetical over-responses
These two guys who talk to each other sometimes are intrigued by lines they hear coming from the mouths of strangers as they live their lives. Well someone else is also intrigued by such overhearings, and that someone else is
April 14 – Win Butler gets reminded of a brief Haligonian encounter
A few years ago, your band played a show in Halifax, and a few of us flew up from Newfoundland for a few days to see it. While it wasn’t the original Lost Weekend, life doesn’t get a whole lot
April 12 – Ilana Glazer gets a budder-butter mix-up
So it’s early in the morning, when I should be up cooking breakfast or something by then, which I am, for ourselves and a friend who spent last night on our couch. We start off pretty good, frying up some
March 26 – Todd Barry gets a Hershey’s holiday hardship
I know you like getting free stuff, and it must be nice to be in a position to make that happen. But there’s also the opposite of free stuff, and that comes in the form getting scammed. Sometimes that scamming