This survey will help you determine your status as such, and hopefully provide you with a few subtle tips for avoiding it.

To preface: if you are a poor to mediocre communicator and embrace such a state (in fact, cling to it like an 11-year-old…

Hey man.
Hey hey hey,
Your bagel’s on the sidewalk.

(he’s not really eating it)
(it felt good, doughy on his gums)

The Ballad of Elsa Morales

You don’t find homes of the well-to-do under the flightpath of a busy airport, a stone’s throw from the runway where the roar of jet engines moves the air like thunder. That real estate is reserved for working-class folk. The same is true for…

A One-Hit-Wonder Strikes Back

It was a 1 a.m. like so many others before Steve Van Dam’s band, Everything, hit the big time: darkness hovers over a dank alley fit for John Huston noire, clumsy dumpsters and steam rising from a gutter vent in the distance. Steve…

“We just carry on,” she said, her voice trembling, “like a couple of primitives, like Bedouins who’ve lost their way. There’s nothing out there as far as we know. We’ll just end up at nothing, and what of us then?”