Category: Blog

Many of you may not know this, but after it’s announced that you’ve won the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest, you’re required to write a letter of acceptance to the magazine before they can send you the signed copy of the cartoon you captioned. This is my acceptance letter:

While walking through a rainy Monday, I stepped upon an orange card wishing “Sarah” a happy birthday. This is what it read:

Today I have given over the Blog to Heidi, our Miniature Dachshund. Heidi really been on edge lately. Not know why.

Earlier in the day I went up to the Annex HodgePodge on Dupont to pick-up some lunch. The guy preparing my sandwich asked if I wanted black pepper on my salad and we fell into a conversation about the all the food items that people despised.

I just found out that actress Sarah Michelle Geller, who achieved fame for her role as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has five tattoos.

As some of you will know, I’ve been trying to win the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest for the last couple of months. Inconceivably, it seemed, they always avoided picking my brilliant, cutting-edge submissions and I was never made a finalist. I hated them. I sent them letters with blood spattered on the envelope. I…

Nothing that Chris Brown does surprises me. He’s a complicated man. For almost a year now I’ve been having a sporadic Twitter conversation with him. At times its’ been very combative, like an Old School freestyle rap off, and at other times its been quasi-friendy.

Walking behind me on Madison were a boy and girl. They were probably in their late teens and they had the look of best friends, even though one of them secretly hoped their relationship would become more. They were happy, just now finally hitting the point in their lives when they were growing comfortable in…