RedEye - Stephen Markley

Sitcoms influence real life, again

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Get ordained, marry your friends Wedding season has made me consider two things. First of all, if and when the time comes, I want to get married on the International Space Station. This way, almost everyone I invite will likely decline to make the trip, hopefully including the bride herself, leaving me to carouse with Russian cosmonauts (I have strange fantasies).

Show me the money, Mark Zuckerberg

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500

When I first joined the social-networking site Facebook as a naive 22-year-old college kid, I thought: "Cool. Now my friends can see silly, drunk pictures of me and know how I feel about the television program 'Lost.'"

Best soundtrack for breakup: Silence

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Breakups in your 20s are very different from the breakups in your teens.

Sick days for adults are far from sweet

Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500

You know when you're a kid and getting sick is almost, well, awesome?

The Democratic Party is like my roommate

Thu, 8 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500

I never imagined it would come to this, but even I'm getting sick of the Democratic nomination process.

Once college is over, you can't go back

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500

If you're in the mood for an experience that can be described as simultaneously bizarre, awkward and unbearably fun, I recommend visiting your old college town.

7 rules for a stellar bachelor party

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500

There's a certain art to a bachelor party -- whether you're throwing one or you're just a guest.

What do men want? Video games

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Women, here is why you should give up on guys: You will never make us happier than video games.

The politics of love ... for Meghan McCain

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0600

Now that John McCain has all but secured the Republican nomination for president, the eyes of the nation (or at least my eyes) have turned to the most important asset of his campaign: his smokin' hot daughter, Meghan McCain.

I'll admit it: I like Oprah Winfrey

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0600

OK, Chicago, I have a secret. I don't know how this happened, but one day I woke up, looked at myself in the mirror, and realized that I really, really like Oprah Winfrey.