Entries from October 2009

October 30, 2009

So long as I don’t look like Justin Guarini …

I have been single for a long time.
There are, apparently, good reasons for this.

October 23, 2009

Leave no shrimp behind

Never doubt the power of ShrimpFest.
Each year, my friends and I gather at Red Lobster for what the restaurant calls “Endless Shrimp,” but we lovingly (and dorkily) refer to as ShrimpFest. It’s an annual change to gorge ourselves on different types of shrimp, and we take full advantage of it.

October 8, 2009

Rap concerts can pose a problem

None of us were sure of the rules.
I’m pretty sure none of the 59,997 others around did either.
Near the end of our second day of our first Lollapalooza experience in 2006, Cory, Rachel and I stood in Chicago’s Grant Park, ready to see Kanye West take the stage. We’d been hyped for this particular performance [...]