What I learned Running The New York City Marathon: Things To Avoid

Dogs that might bite you. It's hard to run if your leg is gushing blood all over the place and hurting you. Also, the blood makes the ground slippery, and other runners will get mad at you, no...

Sometimes God tells me things.

Like the other day, I'd been watching Greek on Hulu for about an unknown number of hours when Safari quit for no reason. Or so it seemed. The real reason was that God was telling me to get out of bed because it is officially...

In an extraordinary bid to lure traditionalist Anglicans en masse, the Vatican said Tuesday that it would make it easier for Anglicans uncomfortable with their church's acceptance of female priests and openly gay bishops to join the Roman Catholic Church while retaining many of their traditions. --The New York...

In a plot line inspired by Robert Frost's poem "Road Not Taken," fictional character Archie Andrews has already proposed to Veronica and will propose to Betty next month. I wonder what it would be like if other comics were inspired by poems... (Imagine dreamy music...

Dear Diary,

This summer, I was reading my book on the steps in Union Square when one of the chess teachers came up and made me smell his cup of "tea." I'm pretty sure it was just gin.

Dear Diary,

One winter I was in the playground with...

In an effort to make travel safer and more pleasant for women, several new commuter trains in India are for women only.

Other Places I would Like To Be Only For Women

1. The women's bathroom at the movie theater on 68th street last night. That was really weird.

What's that you say? A cat lady on the Upper West Side? How weird.

My Cats or my Future Baby?

1. Barf on the floor
2. Poop on the floor
3. Pee on the floor
4. Has a brain larger than...

Recently, Glamour magazine ran this photo in an article promoting healthy body image.

The majority of the online responses were positive. Even my male friend Baker commented on her nice smile and other weird, irrelevant things like that. But my first thought when I saw it was "What...

CW begins an ambitious campaign this week to promote a new series for the 2009-10 TV season, "The Vampire Diaries."

Important ideas are all around us. Just look at anything I've ever written--free and easily accessible right here on the internet. But also, things in our daily lives are more than what they seem. Commercials are full of powerful concepts, and they're fun to deconstruct. But then you realize what...

For a complete list of things that don't change, google "the past" and "still photographs of anything anywhere."

Women order smaller and less calorific meals if eating with a man than if dining with female friends," according to a group of people the Daily Mail calls "Scientists." Women responded:...

We here at My Brain have offered great advice before. Here is some more. You're welcome.

If you're thinking of converting to Christianity and possibly harming other people as a result, maybe take a nap instead. It is hard to do damage when you are mid-REM cycle. On the...

Teddy Roosevelt stated the problem well when he said, "A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues." President Obama got in trouble for saying that the Cambridge Police acted "stupidly" when they arrested Henry Louis Gates, Jr. You know what's stupid? People...

Today there was a total eclipse of the sun. This should never be confused with a total eclipse of the heart. The latter is categorized by getting a little bit lonely, a little bit tired, a little bit nervous, a little bit terrified, followed by falling apart. In total eclipses...

In the New York Times last Sunday, public editor Clark Hoyt discussed the changes gradually taking place in the Times Wedding Announcements. A large percentage of the couples still attended an Ivy League school, and are "clustered in prestige occupations. The top three fields for men were finance, media and...