Blog tales of the Modern Man
Well Martinis Optional, I have been avoiding you. Not so much avoiding you, as passive-aggressively thinking about you and deeming myself unworthy to send you message and strike up a conversation. I have had no shortage of things we could have talked about (and probably should have) over the past five weeks, and perhaps now […]
Ok, women readers of Martinis Optional. It’s about to get ugly up in here. Really ugly. I’m just warning you. Consider this that inflammotory surgeon general thing on the box or that intrusive “Hey this is not really food” label that California wants to start putting on WheatThins. Whatever the metaphor, just know, that I […]
An Overstewed Homage to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel This little speck of a film has been picking at my mind for nearly a month now. And not just because I promised a blog response to it (though in part because of that), I find myself compelled to say something about the cautionary tale of a […]
I love a good Christmas letter. Ok, let’s be honest, I love a bad Christmas letter. I love the aggrandizing kid stories, the posed pictures from that vacation to the St. Louis arch, the painstaking skill at masking the rebellion of that one child you’ve been toiling with all year, the ebuliance of Christmas cheer […]
There is a fight somewhere buried in every one of us. A rugged inkling to dig in our heels, stare past the obstacles and push toward some unlikely end. I have been testing the pressure gauge of my own fight for many years, even at various points trying to direct the coming storm of effort, […]
So it has come to this. I’m actually about to write a movie review about The Amazing Spider-Man. Now for all of my non summer-eye-candy movie watchers, don’t hit the back button on your browser just yet. It’s not really a movie review, and no viewing of the film is required. In fact, I’m sure […]
