Remember AOL disks? If you owned a mailbox in the late 1990s or early-2000s, you know what I mean, because America Online’s aggressive direct mail strategy probably distributed CD-ROMs and diskettes into it with irritating frequency. More than a billion disks were mailed between the late 1990s and 2006, when AOL stopped the mass mailing. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Pop Culture'
Today’s Guessing Game: What Is It?
November 3rd, 2009 · Comments
Tags: Pop Culture · Technology
Scavenged
September 2nd, 2009 · Comments
We set off on foot, the six of us, under an azure sky as big as the ocean. The breeze off the water smelled of salt and September, and the dune grasses bent toward each other, whispering the news that fall was coming.
It was a picture-perfect, precious August day, the kind of day that a [...]
Tags: Family History · Pop Culture · travel
Awkward Family Photos
May 15th, 2009 · Comments
As I sometimes reveal here, there is something universal about the awkwardness of family.
About a week ago, two childhood friends launched a site to document as much. The results — in the vein of LOLCats and Stuff White People Like — are hilarious:
The Choker: “This is what happens when your male role model is both [...]
Tags: Family History · Humor · Pop Culture
10 Things I Hate About You, Travel Edition
March 22nd, 2009 · Comments
The flight from Boston to Los Angeles takes six hours, during which there is a kind of caricature of intimacy that develops, at least in Coach.
You might not even know the name of the guy sitting at your elbow, but still: You know his choice of reading material; what he drinks with his meal; [...]
Tags: Business · Pop Culture · travel
A Journey to ‘25 Random Things’
February 17th, 2009 · Comments
Three weeks ago, William tagged me in a “25 Random Things About Me” chain letter. I’ve hung around with William a few times, but reading his list feels a lot like a peek at his diary: Here are his hopes, fears, and his profession of love for Twizzlers.
I’m tagged again by Tim (”I’m a writer… [...]
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Refugee At Home
January 18th, 2009 · Comments
On Monday I had a small patch of skin cancer removed from the bridge of my nose. It sounds like a big deal, but it wasn’t. The procedure itself felt no worse than having an earlobe pierced: There was only a quick, surprising burn as the doctor applied a local anesthetic, but the actual procedure [...]
Tags: Politics & Society · Pop Culture


