Big Baby Chain Smoker
Meet Ardi, the pudgy 2-year-old Sumatran boy who wants to bum your cigarettes. Two-year-old Ardi Rizal would give Don Draper and the fellas at Sterling Cooper a run for their money. Well, maybe not,...
View ArticleGuestpost #3: Myles Valentin – Ten things I've learned from Watching La Liga...
Myles Valentin is the co-founder of the blog turned best-selling book Stuff White People Like. He uses the money from it to bet on Spanish soccer. He loves Lionel Messi and appreciates the handsomeness...
View ArticleTuna helper and other white trash food
If you wash it down with cigarettes and generic vodka, it’s white trash food. I have great friends. I tend to get some great inspiration from The Muse, but from time to time, my inspiration...
View ArticleMiranda Lambert: Role Model?
She drinks, she smokes, she talks shit, and she’s setting a great example for our daughters. Country singer Miranda Lambert is a feisty little booze-drinking, cigarette-smoking, ass-kicking dynamo...
View ArticleThe History Behind Mad Men Moments
Mad Men gives us a glimpse into yesteryear by using accurate historical themes. Tara Sharp of TrèsSugar, tells readers how Mad Men incorporates real historical themes into everyone’s favorite...
View ArticleFather’s Day Fiction Special: Their Second Honeymoon
In part two of the Moustache Club’s (Early) Father’s Day Fiction Special, Oliver Lee Bateman offers a short sketch of a couple planning their second honeymoon. The two of them decided to take a...
View ArticleYou’re So Vain, You Probably Wrote This Story About You
What if I told you that the stories you create are more about you than they are about anyone else? You saw it on your morning walk to Starbucks: what appeared to be a not-empty glass of whiskey and an...
View ArticleSmoke in Your Eye
What I felt for her wasn’t love. It was more an addiction. When I first started working at the college, the smoking section was right outside the front entrance to the library. You’d walk into work...
View ArticleFine for Now
The rhythm of Will Flores’ days are too uncomfortable to dance to, even alone. Fine for now … 1:45am day’s over. Done for now Fine for now This will be the last time I stumble to bed like this I am...
View ArticleWhy Smoking Is Banned on Airplanes
A tale of chivalry and danger from the days when airline travelers could smoke on commercial flights. Timing is everything. Some people’s lives depend on it, or result from it; it only takes a second...
View Article“People tend to have more success replacing harmful drugs with less harmful...
If you’ve ever been addicted to something, were you able to break the addiction completely? Or did you end up just changing the object of your addiction? tendrecroppes, Protagoras, and Hank Vandenburgh...
View ArticleHer Feet of Clay
“We all judge people on their looks. Some of us are just more honest about it.” When Andy Bodle puts a woman on a pedestal for her beauty, the results are predictable. “Remember that the most...
View ArticleI Played Prison Football and Lived to Write This
A new section of grass opened up an invitation to play some Yard football. — Wasco State Prison: Level III, Yard “A” Occupancy Design: 2980 During Stay: 2900 Today: 4957 After five or so months...
View ArticleDear John: She Wants Him To Have An Affair
A chronic illness prompts a proposal for an affair, a girlfriend who won’t quit smoking, and a friend who stole a work project. — This article originally appeared at GoLocalProv.com. Dear John, I’m a...
View ArticleWhy Banning Transfats is Confusing
Why pick these 7,000 lives to save? The Food and Drug Administration announced on November 7, 2013, that they were working toward the elimination of transfats from the American food supply. FDA...
View ArticleHave Yourself A Tacky Christmas: A Carton of Smokes
It was a banner year at the old Bender family. Smoke up, Johnny. Yeah, yeah. I know Santa smoked a pipe. So did Frosty the Snowman, Mr. Potato Head and that other made up guy whose name escapes me....
View Article33 Reasons Why This Dad Is Quitting Smoking
Husband and father Nick Geurts has assembled a list of reasons why he can’t justify smoking any longer. — With my 33rd birthday fast approaching, I’ve decided that it is about time I quit smoking. For...
View ArticleLifestyle Diseases Make Global Health Promotion More Difficult Than Ever
Top health risks include cigarettes, booze and being overweight. But who has the power to deal with this very 21st-century problem? — By Sarah Hawkes, University College London and Tom Pegram,...
View ArticleSay What You Mean, Mean What You Say
Carl Bosch is just looking for a little honesty. And sometimes he finds it. — The Brits have it right on their cigarette packs. Brilliant, in fact. They just speak the plain truth. Here in the U.S....
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