Sometimes I Hate New York for the Same Reasons that I Love It

I was waiting for the G train 20 minutes ago after shopping at Trader Joe's, and a stranger sitting next to me remarked that all the peo...

Cheap Candy Concerns

My previous landlord still hasn’t returned my security deposit. For reasons I won’t go into here, it’s a large security deposit, and because...

The Big Wave

An irritating thing that I encounter when I leave New York is the broad application of the word “different.” My family has been doing this f...

At the Farm

Katie and I went up to our friend Ilsa’s farm in Petersham, MA, last weekend. The house is situated on sixty or so acres of land (the land i...

PoopGroup: WestSide

Hi poopers- it's been a long time and being as I am spending so much time on the west coast these days, I thought I would share some ins...

Book Club: Plays Well with Others

When I first read Plays Well with Others ( Allan Gurganus ), my first explicitly gay novel, and as I have continued to think about the book ...

Eggs

People seem to do okay by eggs. That, or particularities vary enough that most of us, including me, would rather not hear about it. The only...