The Snail Shell

I could start talking about West Coast people are like this, East Coast people are like this, or maybe Northern Californians are like this, ...

Meant to blog this but never did and I have like 15 minutes so gonna do it now. Part two of my trip (actually part 1) found me in West Virgi...

I kind of wanted to get my dad one of those shirts, because we both think it's great. But you could never wear it! Which is too bad. I...

Sorry I haven't been around. I went home for the weekend, which you'd think would mean more free time, but it really means a lot le...

I mean, I've sort of half-admitted it for a while, danced around the issue, joked about it, tossed it aside. But it's serious busin...

Long-term Snail Shell aficionados may know that I've tried a few times to make the best nutritional bar out of fruits and vegetables. ...

but I am anyway, and maybe it's a bad idea, but maybe later I will be less outraged and I would kind of like to get this thought out the...

I'm going to have to start marking these food-related posts with "food". Cutting meat out of your diet is a big step towards b...

In first news, the fasting experiment seemed to turn out well. I ate no food yesterday, just drank a couple glasses of orange juice and a c...

quoth my dad. See, it's funny, because "half-fast" sounds like "half-assed." Get it? I'm trying an experiment ...

Last Friday was probably the scariest moment in recent memory. (This proves how easy my life is.) Background: Sarah and I went to her cousi...

Where the Hell is Matt? Pretty excited about this.

Here I go, jumping into the world of having a website. I feel like it'd be a useful thing to learn. And I'd like to build it from ...

As of yesterday evening, I'm now 90% vegetarian. Nits and grits: what does that mean? In any given week, I'll eat meat at most twic...

My grandpa had this saying. We'd be having dinner and my grandma would be serving up spaghetti, and he'd get some, but then, dishin...

and with a dramatic subject line like that, you'd think this is some big deal, but not really. We just had a discussion about a lot of ...

She puts Obama signs in her front yard, and he retaliates with McCain signs. She puts cardboard cutouts of political figures in her house, ...

because everyone loves a list of 10 things. First: Ireland was great! More details to follow. Top 10 albums of this list I've been kind...

And you'll forgive me if it's backdated. This blog is for me, not you. I scribbled down all this on a notebook. Here it is, in al...

I'm in Ireland! I guess I should have made that more clear. Anyway, I'll be back online (for serious) as of June 11, and in the me...