Urban Honking

I’ll be in Hawaii next week! The plan is to do as much hiking and swimming as possible. Hoping to make a few KmikeyM announcements (romance project, auction, and VTac) in the coming weeks. Have been working on various projects and they are creeping ever closer to completion. Will surely update via the Mailing List, [...]

Dear Yours Truly, Let us say that you were in a relationship that you were pretty happy with but nevertheless ended in a dramatic and emo fashion. How much time must elapse before you leave “normal healthy grieving process” territory and move into “crazy depressive person who needs to stop dwelling” territory? What if, hypothetically, [...]

I need some career assistance. I’m torn between two pretty stupid career paths! How does a person become an archivist? Not necessarily a librarian, maybe more of an image or document or collections specialist? Is it a special Grad program? Is it library science? Also, I’m an artist and am also thinking about getting my [...]

We are starting to plan our wedding and I am overwhelmed. I would love to know your thoughts on making a wedding awesome! Who do we invite? [Other Groom's Name Redacted] has too many friends! I have a lot of friends too, but how do I get them out here? Should I book a hotel? [...]

At what point should you decide that your chosen career isn’t going to work out, and you need to figure out something else? I just got my PhD and didn’t get a job, and I’m in a field where roughly only 16% of candidates actually land tenure-track jobs each year, so even if you’re really [...]

It is such a pleasure to be able to bring to you a movie nobody saw but should have. Remember Fido? Or even The Box? It’s like that! You go to the movie store and you’re like “what on earth is THIS thing I’m suddenly noticing, isn’t that the guy from Eastbound and Down,” and [...]

The Urban Honking Summer Activities League is excited to launch Camp Firewood, the blog for announcing all the fun we plan on having this summer. Yes, that is a reference to Wet Hot American Summer and yes, we are all giant nerds. The role of Camp Director will be played by Willow because she doesn’t [...]

At its most basic level, the world’s soil falls into just twelve groups. Gelisols, Histosols, Spotosols, Andisols, Oxisols, Vertisols, Ardisols, Ultisols, Mollisols, Alfisols, Inceptisols, Entisols—the Twelve Soil Orders sound to me like an alliance, sitting about a round table and dividing up the territory of the earth. Of course, as political battles tend to go, [...]

It holds up! I want to start a new feature where we watch the beloved films of our youth. Like Clue!! Did you know that a certain co-blogger was so excited to see the additional endings in the theater that she wet her pants rather than miss a single moment by going to the bathroom? [...]