Most of us use our smartphones excessively—even when not texting our friends, calling our parents, checking our email at all hours, listening to music, pulling up directions, thumbing through social media or playing games, we still seem to be weirdly glued to them most of the time....
Remember the last time someone you barely knew came up to you and asked: “So, are you and your partner enjoying unprotected sex on a regular basis?” Wait, you don’t? It happens to me all the time. Because when you’re a parent, it’s amazing how many people — at...
For the first three decades of my life, I ate whatever I wanted without ramifications. It was like having a superpower. So I devoured all sorts of crap en masse: Candies; chip; onion rings; and tons of chicken nuggets (with the Ranch Dressing) foremost among it. Recently, however,...
When you’re a dad, parenting questions often come up that you struggle to find an answer to. Since other parents are the worst and the internet will send you down a rabbit hole of paralyzing, paranoid terror, we’re here to help by putting those questions to the experts....
Here’s a situation pretty much everyone can relate to: You’re sitting at the bar with your two best friends when one of them excuses himself to the bathroom. As he steps out of earshot, you turn to the other friend to roast the now-excused friend — perhaps his new...
One of my least attractive character traits is a penchant for correcting people’s grammar. It’s never well-received, likely because correcting grammar is rarely about grammar and usually about demonstrating intellectual or cultural superiority. At least that’s how it’s perceived. “Mind your subjunctive,” I once teased a date....
Remember when physical cash was a thing? That green stuff that made the world go round? It’s quickly become a thing of the past, with most of us not bothering to carry any actual bills around with us anymore. Why would we? Between credit cards and phone...
I’m lying in a 104-degree red brick sauna littered with 1,000-year-old salt minerals at Wi Spa in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles. Every so often, a middle-aged Asian man next to me grabs a fistful of sodium-drenched stones and holds them close to his chest while...
The best piece of advice Anthony Bourdain has ever received is “show up on time.” “Give the people you work with or deal with or have relationships with the respect to show up at the time you said you were going to,” the chef, author, TV host,...
The right jeans make a buttless man look like he’s packing serious backdoor heat. A beard will give a chinless man a lifetime of faux gravitas. Bras push boobs up to gravity-defying heights. And bald men sometimes wear hats to cover up thinning hair or total baldness....
When you’re a dad, parenting questions often come up that you struggle to find an answer to. Since other parents are the worst and Google will send you down a rabbit hole of paralyzing, paranoid terror, we’re here to help by putting those questions to the experts....
For the longest time, the sports world (and by the sports world, I mean myself) has been haunted by an unsolvable brain teaser: If you were to assemble a representative portion of the general populace, could more of those people dunk a basketball on a regulation hoop, or...