Men Dancing: A Taxonomy
To anybody that was in the 6th grade with me: if the cherished memory of your very first school dance was tainted when you inexplicably got hit in the face with a chicken finger, that was me. I can...
Author: Joe Sapien
Joe Sapien is a regular columnist. He is currently floundering through grad school and running up debt. He never got to be a bully as a child, but he would have been pretty good at it.
The new G.I. Joe movie: a tantalizing preview
These days, it’s hardly worth waking up on Saturday morning, unless you somehow crave 30 minutes of nausea-inducing lights, screeching, and creepily bug-eyed characters. I’ve seen the animated...
Diddy and Bond: a match made in the pits of hell
Sean Combs is mystifying. He has gone through an evolution of names, from “Puff Daddy,” to “P.Diddy,” to just “Diddy.” Why he hasn’t completed the logical progression and started...
Facebook and Craigslist spread happiness and joy
I look at Facebook only occasionally. I usually update my status and send a few messages, but every two months or so, I really comb through, looking at pictures, reading notes, and so forth....
“Chinese Democracy” by Guns n’ Roses: hype, nostalgia, leather pants
I like the music of the people I find interesting. It’s very important to understand that I don’t have to like or even respect a person to find them utterly fascinating. Maybe that’s why bands...
Joseph Origami’s enlightened advice column
My dear friends, I have always known that I was special, that I was different from others around me. While the other boys and girls would play soccer or sit on the swings at recess, I was content to...
I triumph over group theory via Halloween costume and rum
I realize I have been slipping into the blogosphere for some time now, but only recently did I achieve acceptance. I don’t think that my past concerns about being labeled as a “blogger” were...
Celebrity catfight champions
Not satisfied with the disproportionate amount of acclaim and wealth shoved at them by drooling zombies otherwise known as the human race, celebrities manage to lock themselves in titanic struggles...
How Google Goggles will lead us down a path to glory
I think we all have tacitly accepted the fact that Google Inc. is one day going to rule the world. Within the past few years, they have moved into pretty much every category of user technology....
I gallantly solve the economic crisis
I’ve heard more or less the same things that you have: the sub-prime mortgage crisis has affected all sorts of markets, leading to all sorts of problems. The Dow has been plummeting. Paul Newman...