Every male friend group has a Toranaga-sama (stoical and principled but maybe sociopathic), a Yabushige (completely self-interested but witty), a Buntaro (depressing but reliable), and an Anjin (bumbling but funny).

What if I became a literary it girl?

The pop-up series Shtick is attracting pro-Israel celebrities like Brett Gelman, Samantha Ronson and David Schwimmer — and a long list of New York influencers — to its 'sexy' Jew-ish dinner parties. nytimes.com/2024/04/24/sty…

That lawn at Columbia that has become
the most important place in the world? When I was there, James Franco used to sit on that lawn in his leather jacket and black boots and smoke cigarettes and read. That was a whole scene, too.

The pop-up series Shtick is attracting pro-Israel celebrities like Brett Gelman, Samantha Ronson and David Schwimmer — and a long list of New York influencers — to its 'sexy' Jew-ish dinner parties. nytimes.com/2024/04/24/sty…

I went to the influencer Seder and no one knew you: nytimes.com/2024/04/24/sty…

It’s taking all of my willpower as a parent not to make my sons refer to me as “Toranaga-sama.”

Why are we acting like this is a bad chair. It’s a good chair (crams daily crisp five dollar bill in the jar marked “EAMES” I keep on my desk)

There is a Columbia J school student who has to tear up her perfect 800 word story about a quirky diner in Staten Island because her RW1 professor told the whole class they have to cover the campus protests this week. Spare a thought for her.

Me at 19: I’m not sure how, but I do know I will change the world.

Me at 39: Why *couldn’t* I be one of those fat guys with a beautiful wife? Someone’s got to do it…

Four years ago exactly, my wife went into labor with our first child. The world was shutting down. And yet only one thing was on my mind: could my son make it in time to be a 4/20 birthday? As the clock struck midnight, I realized the answer, tragically, was no.

I won’t be participating in the Taylor Swift discourse, as I have nothing to contribute. I am a 39-year old man whose concerns revolve around my children’s happiness, suspicious moles on my torso, and performing adequately or better at work.

Only in New York: Notorious Brooklyn 'grinch' landlord illegally evicts my children's daycare by turning off the heat. Hardworking immigrant owner scrambles to find backup space. Backup space shut down because license takes 90 days to transfer. Bureaucrats don't care. Kids lose.

True or false, you have to admit that Ambrose Finnegan is the name of a guy who would get eaten by cannibals.

Getting pedantically furious about this is the most Chicago-guy response imaginable

Typical late 30s body, much like my own