Jeff Namian

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I Need Help

I'm becoming a serial on-line shopper.  To set this up correctly I must express my disdain for shopping the usual way.  Like stick me in a mall and...

The Fallacy of Being Nice

Nice people are like artificial sweetener. It’s sweet, but it has a weird aftertaste and we will always prefer the real thing. That's someone else's...

Party Affiliation ≠ Social Issues

It doesn't.  Well at least it shouldn't.  Most people incorrectly align party affiliation with their stance on social issues.  You approve of gay...

to the man who talks incessantly to the doormen about the philadelphia eagles

Oh you know who you are.  You have two dogs, both midget-like.  You have one on a leash and have been cradling the other one like a puppy for almost...

this state of independence shall be

A downside of having unconventional parents was their willingness to say "go ahead, leave." And I would but I didn't have anywhere to go.  I didn't...

The Reunion

I have to go to one in a couple of weeks where I'll see hundreds of people I haven't seen as far back as forty years ago.  It's exciting but...

Hygiene Lessons

... as learned from my father at a way too early age. I knew how to shave my face, armpits and chest by the age of nine.  Not that there was any...

You’re not as interesting as you think you are.

I found myself saying that to a complete stranger the other night.  What prompted it?  A man with a piercing and enunciated vocabulary drowning out...

AM

It's not the part where I have to dress myself, fly downstairs, hook her up, get the key and race her to the elevator so she can't position herself...

Threading a Needle

Anyone over sixty try to do this lately?  Mother of God it's impossible.  That Betsy Ross musta devoured a ton of carrots for lunch.  Interesting...

The Blabbermouth

blabbermouth / noun blab·​ber·​mouth ˈbla-bər-ˌmau̇th  a person who talks too much especially:  TATTLETALE Everyone knows one.  There's the one that occupies conversation at the dinner table to the point that no one can hear you ask for the salt.  There's the one that...

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You Throw the Best Parties

I get this a lot so I'm sharing my secrets to being the host everyone wants an invitation from. First off, it's costly.  I get my residence professionally cleaned because I know how nosey I am in someone's bathroom and feel the need to operate on the defensive.  I...

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Neighbors

You don't get to pick your neighbors and when you live in an apartment building, things can get dicey.  I lived seventeen years in an apartment building in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan until I saved enough money to buy a co-op uptown.  The day I moved, a guy...

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Jeff Namian

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Philadelphia, Pa

(917) 696-9255

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