Archive for December, 2008

Fat Kids and Heavy Cream

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Brendan and I jokingly refer to ourselves as “fat kids”. But in every joke, there’s an element of truth! All butter-chomping and chocolate syrup-guzzling aside, the yo-yo’ing between losing and gaining weight marked our childhoods in such a way that, as adults, we are both prone to all-encompassing obsessions about our weight. I will look [...]

Thanksgivingfulness

Monday, December 1st, 2008

We had so much to be thankful for on Thanksgiving. Examine: 1) J. Anthony McCarthy’s birthday! On Thanksgiving day! Even though birthdays are rightly set aside to do nothing for anyone but yourself, Tony spent the afternoon helping hand out free Thanksgiving dinner to the needy. Then, he came over and shared his day (and [...]

Conflicted

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Far be it from me to get in the way of my people’s shot at making a living; especially after years of colonization, corruption and poverty, but this scares me; a small paper in Pasadena has outsourced all its reporters to India. And they cover… Pasadena. I think it works for this guy because he [...]