How happy are you?

Time did a “One Day in America” special report, which contained an entertaining and simultaneously depressing segment on average job happiness: http://www.time.com/time/2007/america_numbers/job.html.  It provided a more comprehensive approach than the reiteration of the fact that dentists are most likely to commit suicide, and air traffic controllers have the highest stress levels.  Shocking, I know.
With so [...]

Disgustingly Ironic: Pink Vomits on Pop-Culture and Media

 Note in this fairly recent magazine issue an anorexic Tara Reid, right next to a ditty about “The Biggest Loser.”

I’m almost too outraged to respond, but that would be furthering the issue, and ignorance is not the key.  There is no question that returning to a healthy body image is of  utmost concern, just as [...]

Better Ways To Decide Where To Live

For the first time in decades, the US dollar is not worth more than the US dollar. Read about it here: http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2007/11/24/with_dollar_low_us_is_one_big_outlet/
In completely unrelated news, I’m moving to Western Europe.
Oh, I wish.

Bombs or Cocaine… To Drink?

While minding my own business on a casual Sunday walk, I was viscerally confronted by this:

Of course, being armed with a camera at all times, my alarm led to immediate documentation. Is this really what we’re marketing as a “hip” drink? “Excite your mind” seems a little ironic for the slogan. If [...]

The Last Vestiges of Color

With all of NYC’s boroughs undergoing gentrification as fast as the Mayor’s Office of Film can make bad decisions, I sought to find some of the old East Village’s flair (or flamboyance, if you prefer). Luckily, the astringent proposed laws are being reconsidered, or this post might have been coming from San Fransisco instead. [...]

How Green is Your… Wallet?

To preface this ditty, I’m all for a greener lifestyle. However, some people seem to be inept at making real plans. To briefly summarize the article linked above, to increase the number of trees by 20% NYC residents must plant and buy their own trees to assist the government. Seriously, I wish [...]