I don’t know that an internet presence is always good in and of itself, but it certainly can help, depending on your industry, goals, etc.

I have an Etsy shop, and I’m pretty shameless about using Tumblr, […]

Fifteen or so years after tossing Infinite Jest across the room, I’m now halfway through it. So far, it’s certainly got its moments. But on the whole, the book strikes me as so . . . undergraduate.

Also, what you said.

Also, “Up North” is completely relative. It just has to be directionally north of where you are at this precise moment.

For a while I suspected my apartment might be haunted, because I couldn’t think of any other explanation.

Then I read up on night terrors. Yeah, I was just having those.

Quite frankly, my night terrors are […]

I didn’t think I had catchphrases, but if those are catchphrases, I have them.

Yeah, I usually find tautologies less than helpful.

I used to regularly see these four men on the 2/3. One would ask a stranger, “Excuse me sir/ma’am, do you know what time it is?” and the other three would chime in with “IT’S DO-WOP TIME!” Then do-wop would […]

Stracciatella I could get behind, but spumoni? Hard to muster enthusiasm.

Sprinters get all the glory. The networks cut to commercials during distance events, so we only get to see the start and finish of the 800 and 1500. Le sigh.

It’s okay, though, because I still get so nervous I […]

I don’t know how we could; Speedo has been pioneering swimsuit technology for decades and decades and decades. It was all about extremely high-cut rubber suits and “paper” suits when I was competing in the 80s and […]

My experience has been slightly different: the move itself, from NYC to Utah, was in no way a zombie apocalypse.

Living in Utah, on the other hand….

It’s not about how well you can do a pose or how long you can stretch out your breath.

It is known.

Looking pretty in a pose is not the point of yoga; that’s one of the hardest lessons to teach, and the […]

Not to get into regulation and certification issues–I teach yoga and I know what a hot mess that whole debate is–but Iyengar teachers also tend to be much better and more extensively trained than many.

Non-book readers: what went through your mind when Jaqen changed into a totally different effing person? 

May I just say, as a book reader, that what went through my mind (during the reading) was “Hold up, did I […]

Posts mentioning Neil deGrasse Tyson need their own special category for responding to “How does this post make you feel?”

And for me, it’s some dizzy combination of “in my brains” and “in my pants.”

Not to get all Westeros-is-Medieval-England, because dudes, it’s fantasy; but Theon and Joffrey do serve as good reminders of how effed up medieval Europe was when, basically, teenagers were in charge of […]

Say what, now?!

I watched season 2 on Netflix Instant; is it not there anymore?

That stuff about animals not having souls or going to heaven was just some bull$h!t Descarte  made up.

It’s a good rule for life, really. I’m thinking about cross-stitching it and hanging it on my office wall.