Also, other surprising revelations about my life on drugs — I used to be scared about getting older with all the potential ailments that could entail, but no more. I’ve spent quite a bit of time over the pandemic looking at pharmaceutical commercials and realized that I actually want to take these drugs. Hell, I need to take them. Who…

It’s my inner life only that *might* make a good reality show — Although I truly enjoy reading other people’s profiles here, I have procrastinated endlessly about writing my own. I wonder if it’s like trying to come up with a dating profile when you are literally interested in hanging out with anyone and everyone. Maybe not, but here goes nothing — The…

The news that having more than two kids is bad for brain health is not news to her — Thanks scientists for telling the world what some of us already know — that having three or more kids “has a negative effect on late-life cognition.” In other news, the earth is round and what comes up must come down (sorry Humpty). These jokers say that three kids is the…

Hint: It generally worked out way worse for the women — It’s a Catch-22 job with a lot of problems. When you were a member of the royal harem, you either had to have sex with the boss — or the harem was so large that your turn never came up and you spent your unintentionally sexless life with the eunuchs. …

The delightful tale of ‘The Night Revels of Han Xizai’ — One of the best stories in Chinese art involves an emperor in the mid-10th century and one of his employees who wasn’t acting up to snuff. As Shanghai Daily explains it, Li Yu (AD 937–978) of the Tang Dynasty was dissatisfied with Han Xizai, a top official. Han started slacking…

That’s an idea we’ve never heard before — says no one ever — When Amy Sea asked me to come aboard as an editor of the prestigious humor publication MuddyUm, I thought ‘now that’s a publication that can really use my help.’ They only have like 7K followers and even though that’s 6,875 more than my most popular individually owned pub, I felt…

Unless you are a boy named Sue, you’re gonna be just fine — What’s in a name? Apparently, a lot of money according to a recent profile of professional baby namer Taylor A. Humphrey in The New Yorker. I’m not sure why some prospective parents pony up between $1,500 on the low end (Humphrey provides a “bespoke” list of names after talking to…

And you don’t even want to know what’s coming for Cobra Kai — Hello Netflix subscribers! You may have seen the news that for the first time ever, Netflix is losing, not gaining, subscribers. 200,000 in the last three months to be exact, with thousands more to follow. Part of the reason for this unfortunate dip? …

That look is one that artists have tried to capture for centuries — When I first saw the photo of Leila Jackson gazing at her mother, soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson during her confirmation hearings, I was as captivated as everyone else. The photographer, Sarahbeth Maney, told the Times that she saw Lelia looking at her mom and then waited for…