POSTED // Nov 16,2011 - The lockout is, like nearly all things, about money. The owners are demanding that NBA players give back hundreds of millions of dollars each year, among other concessions.

POSTED // Nov 9,2011 - Marian (not her real name) will get her flu shot next week—not that she wanted one. But without one, she’d be suspended from her job.

POSTED // Oct 26,2011 - Saturday. Midnight. A cannonade of thunder from Point of the Mountain. The “party car” is 1 of 13 police cars patrolling the city.

POSTED // Sep 28,2011 - Last summer, my friend Chad and I went fly-fishing on the Strawberry River two hours east of Salt Lake City.

POSTED // Aug 31,2011 - Not long ago, I endured an anal probe. I have ass-cam photos to prove it. It was not administered by a green-skinned alien in a spaceship. Rather, a white physician in an unremarkable room in Sandy snaked the high-tech hardware to its destination.

POSTED // Aug 17,2011 - Have you noticed that urban chickens are all the rage nowadays? Having a few hens scratching around the yard conveys a certain social status. Chickens are cool.

POSTED // Aug 3,2011 - Being a journalist and exercising objectivity while writing about something on which I hold strong views is tough to do satisfactorily … especially to myself. I’ll try, anyway.

POSTED // Jul 20,2011 - Ira Glass is not my favorite radio personality, but I was interested in what he had to say about narrative technique and how particular qualities of broadcast media frame a story.

POSTED // Jul 13,2011 - Rarely in life has he found himself spearheading a trend, movement, craze or faction. Even in the realm of fashion (his wife will roll her eyes when she reads this), John Rasmuson has been mostly acquiescent.

POSTED // Jun 29,2011 - Dale Elrod and I sit in Diva’s Cupcakes drinking coffee. An eavesdropper would be surprised by the subject of our earnest conversation. We talk about irrigation for an hour ...