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Definitely Maybe
I woke this morning around seven. The sky outside my window was foggy and gray. I hit the snooze bar, rolled over, and caught a few more winks. Milling about my bedroom prior to my shower, I discovered that I was fresh out of clean undershirts. I remembered that thirty-seven pounds of clean darks and…
Read MoreLife In Slow Motion
Today was a little weird, like the morning my jaw was unwired. I was sucker punched by the captain of the football team on the last day of my junior year. I was sixteen-years-old. My jaw was dislocated in both joints and fractured in two places. I spent six weeks with thick wire locking my…
Read MoreSick Of Myself, Part 3
I’ve woken up to a throat full of cotton balls and thumbtacks every morning for a week now. To say that the sensation of choking on my own tongue is getting old is, well, the understatement of the year. Yes, it’s true, I’m still sick. I’ve have spent six days trapped in my apartment, escaping…
Read MoreSick Of Myself, Part 2
When I was a kid, my mother claimed to be able to look me in the eyes and know whether I was sick or not. Today, I’ve been stealing glances in the mirror, and searching my eyes for a diagnosis. I have a tendency to run myself ragged, especially this time of year. It is…
Read MoreThe Light That Leads Us There
The night began with half a Xanax and a shot of vodka, and concluded with a beautiful blonde passed out in the back of a cab. It’s been thirteen years since we broke up, but when the original lineup of Buckeye reunited on stage at New York’s famed Knitting Factory last night to launch our…
Read MoreBig Pimpin’
I left the country for a few hours tonight. I was in international territory as a guest of the United Nations. The occasion was the premiere of MTV’s “Diary Of Jay-Z: Water For Life.” The half-hour special (which premieres this Sunday on MTV2 and MTV.com) follows Jay’s African travels among the one billion worldwide who…
Read MoreThe Obvious Child
Ok, I’ll admit that I’m just a little bit drunk. Chris and I got home from Washington, D.C. around ten o’clock last night. I blogged, passed out, slept five hours, then woke up, took off my documentary filmmaker hat, and put on my media executive hat. Thirty minutes later, I was seated amongst senior management…
Read MoreThe Blessings
Chris and I were standing outside of NPR’s Studio 3A listening to South-African singer-songwriter Vusi Mahlasela perform on “Talk of the Nation.” Moments prior, we had interviewed the incomparable Susan Stamberg, and hours before that, “Meet The Press” host, Tim Russert. As Vusi, to whom we had just been introduced by our gracious NPR hostess…
Read MoreDegrees
Greetings from Georgetown. My brother and I visited my mother here when my mother moved her in the summer of 1981. Our parents divorce that fall. Neither of us recal much of that time, though we both remember playing video games at the local drug store while she worked. Tonight, twenty-five years later, we drove…
Read MoreSick Of Myself
In 1996, four lads from SUNY Purchase took the Roskilde Music Festival by storm before flaming out in a contentious breakup. Ten years later, Buckeye’s songs have been made famous by Oasis, Matthew Sweet, and The Gin Blossoms, amongst others. On Saturday, November 18, the band will reunite to launch it’s “European Thunder Tour.” Try…
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