The world is emerging from the most prolific tattoo craze in history. From 1995-2005, more tattoos were inked than ever before, more tattoo parlors opened than in any ten year span and tattoos became accepted in all forms of popular culture– movies, TV, music and most noticeably, professional sports. For example, the other […]

Top 10 Most DamagingCelebrity Rants
One day you are a dignified celebrity worthy of the public’s respect and adulation. The next day you’re a laughing stock, an embarrassment, a racist, a redneck, a person who gets booed for the rest of your life. What separates these two days is a damaging celebrity rant. […]

On September 10th, I posted my first Top 10 list, the “Top 10 Dirtiest Names in Sports.” At the time, Flumesday.com was a rough and obscure website without any readers. I sent the list to Deadspin.com, the witty, sarcastic alternative to ESPN. Deadspin linked to my list and slowly the list popped […]

I take Chinese lessons at my neighborhood Starbucks. At Starbucks, as in America, they play music that they deem good coffee-drinking music. A few months ago, it was only old standards– Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald and of course, Ray Charles. The last few weeks I’ve had my lesson, I noticed they had […]

One thing I miss about living in America: rye bread. One thing I don’t miss at all: political ad season. It’s the worst time ever to be a T.V. junkie. At every commercial break you hear about how some candidate exposed unsafe nursing homes or voted against making school lunches more nutritious […]

In many places, it is the highest honor for a leader to be portrayed artistically in public. Whether through a portrait or statue or monument, nations find it necessary to immortalize their heroes. In Tiananmen Square, Chairman Mao can be seen looking down on his people, watching them carefully, beaming with pride. […]

In 1997, during New York City’s annual Thanksgiving Day Parade, a female spectator was critically injured. It was a windy Thanksgiving that year and the enormous Cat in the Hat balloon flying down Central Park West could not be controlled. The balloon was taken by a gust of wind and knocked over a […]

The term “come out of the closet” was coined in 1869 by German gay rights activist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs to describe the act of announcing to friends and family the nature of one’s sexual identity. The term has become quite common in the modern lexicon, so much so that to simply call a person […]

A name is everything for a celebrity. It’s the words on the marquee on premiere night. It’s the sound of a screaming fan. It’s what the world remembers after a celebrity is long gone. Everyone knows names like Michelangelo, Plato and John Candy. And who really remembers what they looked […]

With all the sweeping change taking place in China these days, it becomes difficult to notice the little things. Everyday in the news, you can find one article or another about immigration reforms, foreign business laws or the modernization of Chinese currency. However, rarely do you read about the little things, the small […]