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Radio Nowhere
It’s 6:10 in the morning. I realize that’s not so early for alot of people, but I’ve been awake for two hours. Any second now, Abbi’s alarm’s gonna sound, she’s gonna pop out of bed, and we’re going to go running. Not psyched for that. So I woke up to pee at 4 a.m. My…
Read MoreC’Mon
That’s me about three minutes after running fifteen miles in 96% humidity. Abbigail was in San Diego with “the girls” this weekend, leaving me free reign over the apartment, and the city. Still, fifteen miles, four hours in the studio, three random bars, two movies, two rock shows, one comedy show, and one blog entry…
Read MoreRevenge Of The Bookeaters
To characterize 826NYC’s Revenge Of The Bookeaters benefit at New York City’s Beacon Theater Sunday night as “understated” would be, well, an understatement. Of course, any evening hosted by the nearly catatonic (though culturally prescient, completely unflappable, and totally hilarious) Demetri Martin is bound to be low-key. Whether riffing on break dancing, goatees, or engagement…
Read MoreYou Can Get What You Want Or You Can Just Get Old
He won’t be thrilled that I’m telling this story, but it illustrates a point. So here goes. My brother hit puberty right around the time my parents announced to us that they were divorcing. It was October 1981. We were living in Chicago, IL. My mother, brother and I moved to suburban Philadelphia in August.…
Read MoreStress Rx
It’s amazing how many lotions, ointments, and treatments are required for what ails me. You may recall last summer’s cardiology issue: the chest pains, the stress test. Well, this summer, work, wedding, marathon and documentary stress has manifested itself in a whole bunch of new, interesting, and original ways — and mostly on my face.…
Read MoreBeing There
This weekend, Abbi and I were feted at the third of three engagement parties. Early in the evening, kneeling there in my seersuckers, suede bucks and blue blazer, my uncle — my Godfather, in fact, who’d travelled some 970+ miles to spend these brief moments together — said to me, “Looks like life is treating…
Read MoreWon’t You Be Mine?
Things have been pretty good in The Neighborhood. A few weeks ago, Christofer and I just premiered a second “Mister Rogers & Me” trailer on You Tube, this one with sound bites from Tim Russert, Susan Stamberg, Marc Brown, and Linda Ellerbee. It’s not burning up the Internet, but’s it garnered a few comments, and…
Read MoreUnder The Influence
I couldn’t sleep at all last night. In lieu of counting sheep, then, I spent a few hours considering my Top Ten Albums of All Time. I’m not talking about my Desert Island Discs. These aren’t necessarily the ten albums I’d take with me into eternal solitude (assuming I had electricity in eternal solitude). In…
Read MoreDruids
Angelica Houston just unveiled her eighteen inch Stonehenge. “No one knows who they were or… what they were doing. But their legacy remains… hewn in the rock of Stonehenge.” I’m watching “This Is Spinal Tap” for at least the two hundredth time. With less than five weeks until my bachelor party, this VH1 Classic moment…
Read MoreThe Forty Thousand Steps
My ass still hurts. The Wagner/Keller World Tour continued this weekend, this time with a stop in Newport, Rhode Island. Newport was founded in the Seventeenth Century by Puritan castaways whose radical principles — namely, the separation of church and state — were later codified in the town’s statutes. An early seaport like Boston, New…
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