Essays that will make you laugh, unless you are some kind of non-laughing robot:
- How to Stay Famous
- Getting Old Ain’t Hard to Do
- A Beard’s Life
- Having a Fine Time Doing Time
- Strangers I Love: Old Man Jogger
- Cross-Cultural Intellectual Relativity Theory (C.C.I.R.T.)
- The 5 Stages of the Company Holiday Party
- Jets, Rails & Cars: A Handy Little Guide to Choosing the Perfect Mode of Transportation When Traveling Away from Home (not legally affiliated with Planes, Trains & Automobiles)
- A Handy Little Guide to Choosing the Perfect Place to Stay When Traveling Away from Home
- In Defense of (Fake) Food
- Freaky Friday Presents: My Psychic Gift
- Posts That Could Have or Shouldn’t Have Been
- I know Your Secret, Crappy New York Diners
- Are We Really Still Bothering With NASA?
- In Search of a Fancy Title?
- Will the World Finally Come to an End Already?
- The Red Sox Fan’s Guide to Delivering Snappy Responses to Yankees Fans if (when) the Yankees win the World Series
- Can We Just Give Hawaii and Alaska Back Already?
- Magnum, P.I.’s Short Shorts and the Golden Age of Television
- Hey James Beard, what’s with all of the Awards?
- The NHL-NASCAR Merger: Not As Crazy As You Might Think
- An Open Letter to People Who Write Open Letters
- Francophile or Francophobe? Take the Test and Find Out!
- In Defense of Jaywalking in Boston
- Return to Sender
- Has the Time Come for Polygamy at Work?
- The Boston Sports Fan’s Guide to Choosing a Jersey
- Help Make Competitive Sleeping an Olympic Event
- So You Think You Can Be a Television Critic?
- Introducing…the Work Short
- How to Drive Like you’re from Boston
- Some Not-So-Crazy Fashion Advice
- You Wear It Well
- My Secret Life as as ’80s Radical
- Puzzling Behavior
- Riding the Rails, Boston-style
- The Truth About Men & Sports
- When I Spot a Businessman with a Metal Attache Case
- Exposing the Dry Cleaning Myth
- An Englishman in New York
- But Wait…There’s More!
- Secrets of the Admiral’s Club Revealed
- Fight Club Discovered North of Boston