The woman who hands out coupons for discounted tooth whitening at the Bedford Avenue stop in Brooklyn has gotten me thinking.  If there is one thing broke ass people can’t afford it is dental care.  I myself have been extremely slack in taking care of my chompers at certain poorer-than-average

I’m basically just cutting and pasting this from the facebook invite because there’s a ton of info and rewording it would be annoying.  So if you wanna be a mensch tomorrow, please read below: For this year’s National Day of Service and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, A Good Idea

Before he was giving Jimmy Fallon street cred or upstaging Dave Chappelle, ?uestlove was hosting mean parties back at Fluid Night Club in Philly which I attended religiously.  Although he dominates on the drums, this man knows how to DJ the shit out of a party. I’ve seen the Roots

I was going to try and make this post terribly witty, and entertain you with some funny anecdote about that time I did something really embarrassing in a museum, but then I got sucked into the vortex that is Pot Psychology. I swear my attention span is that of a

According to dictionary.com, to fetishize is to ‘˜regard an object with awe as being the embodiment or habitation of a potent spirit or as having magical potency.’  There are many things in my day-to-day life that, for me, hold these powers.  Call it magical thinking (shout out to my shrink!),

What was your plan for tonight again?  Drinking beers on your couch and watching whatevers on your DVR?  Yes, it’s winter, yes it’s cold and yes, it’s often easier to hibernate indoors than it is to sack up, pull on a bunch of layers and go out into the night,

There are some things I’m better at than others.  Math?  Not so much.  Throwing parties?  Absolutely!  Any of the 1,500+ people who attended the release party for my SF book or my Fuck the Recession Party can attest to that.  Those same people can also attest to the fact that

New York City is a money sucker. Two dollar ATM fees at places that don’t take cards. Five dollar boxes of graham crackers. I occasionally get resentful that groceries and the subway cost money, usually the week when rent’s due. I hear people on the real estate porn channel say