elder wisdom

So, here’s a tweet.

This past weekend, I stopped by the little beer-and-wine store near my local supermarket and picked up a 12-can…

So you’ve got the hyphen. That’s the “-” guy. It joins words together. When you put “-ass” at the end of an…

Drew wrote in this week’s Funbag about getting waxed by his own dang kid in FIFA 19. In our staff chatroom, I…

The Wizards were down by like 32 points last night, and I was watching old NBA highlights, as I, an extremely old…

Probably nothing anyone does at this point stands more than a remote chance of averting any but the very most…

Okay. Okay. So. An ugly and kind of dumb but real thing that sometimes happens in the life of a more-or-less normal…

It has been a rough year for my five little holly trees, transplanted last spring from a nursery to the muddy, weedy…

It’s more or less springlike now, pending yet another cruel and absurd outbreak of The Eternal Winter of 2017-18.…

Listen. I am old. And one of the things that happened along my way to becoming old was that I recognized, and even…

A lie I tell myself with dismal regularity is Ugh, fuck, I am too tired and burned out to tidy up tonight, I’ll do…

No one ever—I checked; it literally has never happened—has gone, “Dang, if only I had not pickled some foodstuffs.”…

Everybody likes roasting a marshmallow over a campfire or fire pit, the best of autumn’s fire-related food…

There are too many shows on TV. Too many shows! Who can watch all of these shows? I can’t watch all of these shows.

Apparently many of the youths are very excited about a “solar eclipse” today. The moon’s transit will carry it…

I am fed up with things taking so damn long. Everything takes too long! Hurry it up for chrissakes.

Via the Washington Post, I have learned of a study by the Journal of Hand Therapy showing that millennial men are a…

My smart colleague George Dvorsky over at Gizmodo published a defense of “radical life extension” this morning. This…