It’s so good — (No spoilers.) Arcane is an animated series on Netflix that not many people I know have heard of. It clearly has a loyal following of fans, but I hadn’t heard of it until recently, and many of my friends that I’ve talked to know nothing about it. …

A healthy sense of failing at life The last date I was on was over a year and a half ago. Two years? I don’t remember. The last girlfriend I had faded out of my life without a clear goodbye, and then after that there were some dates with a couple other women I met, but the…

The show about the future that’s stuck in the past — This is possibly the best Star Trek show to come out since The New Generation in the eighties. …

… because I was carrying a hockey stick on a train in Tokyo — I live in Tokyo, Japan, and one of my hobbies is playing ball hockey. Which, if you don’t happen to know, is basically like ice hockey, but without the ice or skates. Ball hockey is played with the same hockey stick you see ice hockey players use, which is too…

For the life of me I can’t remember how I met this woman. All I know is that we ended up back at my place for what turned out to be a one night stand. But not a classic one night stand under the terms of definition that I think…

I know a few friends who have gone to Landmark seminars, and they seem pretty happy with it. One of them even suggested I would get something out of it. Landmark, if you happen not to know, is a company that offers self help seminars around the world that cost…

Is it harder to replace gaps in your future than gaps in your past? — My friend’s wife passed away from cancer recently. While I was expressing my condolences, I mentioned that I literally wouldn’t be able to understand what he’s going through, because, having never been married, I don’t know what it’s like to lose someone that you’ve intertwined with for that long, at…

“How come you cut me off some times, but you never cut Dave off when he talks? This was said by one friend, a woman, to my other friend, a man. And, by the way, the two of them are married. We were in the middle of having a conversation…

I remember when the US invaded Somalia in 1992. At the time, people were blown away that CNN had cameras on the beaches before the US forces even arrived, ready to film the incoming troops. The level of media coverage was more of a story than the invasion itself. …