Rude As Shit

Baltimore scared me

Tonight, Baltimore scared the shit out of me not because of the creepy people roaming the trash-filled streets at night, not because of the squalor portrayed in The Wire, but because some insane beetle decided out of nowhere to fly into the room I’m staying in, hover towards the lamp while loudly buzzing it’s creepyass [...]


Sassed on the street by a stranger

I was walking past a gas station with Lesley in Brooklyn trying not to make eye contact with a man sitting in an awkwardly parked van when I heard someone say something to my left.
By instinct, I turned around only to see a man pumping gas before realizing he had said, “That’s sexy.”
Of course [...]


A txt msg convo

Sad-Sigh fanbase - all 6 of you - Let me transcribe for you guys a text message conversation I had with my roommate, the illustrious J. Lopez this weekend.  Please note that I received the first message shortly after she arrived in West Palm Beach for vacation.
J: Fractured foot.  Have cast.  Spent my day in [...]


Struck by shower head

I have a love hate relationship with my shower at home. I love to hate it. Wah wah. There is no such thing as “jumping into the shower” at my place unless you’re looking to get doused with either freezing water or scalding water. Adjusting it is a fine art I have not learned despite [...]


Watch the smell…

I had the worst headache at work, and was spotted continually rubbing my neck while on a video conference call with my co-worker now based in NY (damn those web cams). So, I ran over a few blocks away to Bed Bath & Beyond to get some tylenol. Some areas of SOMA are actually a [...]