On How To Make Awesome Pot Brownies
A friend of mine in college would make mushroom honey. Pack a glass jar full of mushrooms, fill with a bear's worth of honey and put the closed jar in the fridge until the whole thing turns electric blue. Put honey in tea or on peanut butter toast. Not too much. A friend told me that.
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On How To Split A Check At A Restaurant
Once when the check came, I put my lion's share down, and my friend put down a few bucks and said "I can't leave a tip b/c I'm broke." I pointed out to him that we were at my local and his failure to tip reflected poorly on me, put in an extra few dollars and then next time we went out insisted on separate checks. He got the picture. Another friend regularly does this so, when out with her and another group of girlfriends, we just automatically add everything up and tell her what she owes.
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On How To Split A Check At A Restaurant
also (c) if you're going out to eat with someone who has screwed you on the bill before. Like my friend Dave. Don't go out to eat with that guy.
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On In Defense Of Smoking Bans
I hear the jury is still out on science.
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On January Without Alcohol: Two Thirsty People Explain
For those thinking of trying Bon L(h)iver, or any other month of sobriety, this is all about the booze. Pot cookies and pharmaceuticals don't count.
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On January Without Alcohol: Two Thirsty People Explain
You're lucky. My friends are all convinced I'm pregnant, and are going to be a bit disappointed in me when they see me drinking, sans baby, next month.
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On In Defense of the Season Finale of "Mad Men"
Next season, I want every episode to end with a con-fab between Joan and Peggy. Sort of like Statler and Waldorf on the Muppet Show.
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On 31 Days of Horror: "Basket Case"
My sister's current pregnancy coincided with an ovarian cyst. She doesn't have a name picked out for the baby yet, but the cyst is called "Belial." Thank you, Basket Case.
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On Steven Slater: The Backlash Begins
This. If the passenger who hit him in the head and later ignored his instruction to sit-the-hell-down didn't put him over the edge, this certainly should have.
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On Let's Read Some Trashy Books
My mom got totally busted at her Catholic high school for passing that book around. Dirty girl.