Music You May Have Missed
Everyone has an instrument that escalates music for them. Upbeat people have the horns. Ragers have the guitar. George W. Bush has the drums. Hopeless romantics have the violin. Whatever it is that triggers that escalation is different from person-to-person....
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I guess it’s time for me to write something about “politics,” which is neither something I am qualified to write about nor something I ever desired to write about nor something I am comfortable writing about. As I’m sure most...
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Way back when, in a land called February, I took a trip down to Mexico. I’m a mixed bag when I get on a plane – I might be productive, I might be sleepy, I might have crippling anxiety that...
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On a flight down to Austin, Massachusetts, this past Friday, I had the pleasure of having a screen in my face the entire flight, courtesy of JetBlue. Since I’m a degenerate, I had my TV on the whole time, even...
Continue ReadingAssuming my body allows me (the road to recovery after a Sunday wedding can be a long one) and the show doesn’t sell out before I hit “publish,” I’ll be dragging what’s left of my body across town to check...
Continue ReadingMost of the time, when you’re making a fool of yourself on purpose, it’s just to make other people happy. Their happiness brings you happiness. You may be costing yourself immeasurably in the persona you’re left with, but it’s worth...
Continue Reading“Frenetically,” he repeated to us, the word bowling over the classroom and sending each one of us into a stun. I had never encountered a teacher with so much command. He shook me to my very core, and within five...
Continue ReadingIt’s weird to stop and think about some of the great things I went through most of life without knowing: the taste of pesto, the sting of whiskey, the sound of Kiefer Sutherland yelling “DAMMIT” as a terrorist flees the...
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