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I’m beginning to think I’m schizophrenic. I’m sitting in seat 19C of US Airways Flight #61 en route from Las Vegas to New York City. My seatmate is the one guy on the plane who hasn’t lowered his blind, so not only is my enjoyment of the Cedric The Entertainer Nicollet Sheridan comedy vehicle, The…

Jimmy Buffet’s personal chef bought me shots last night. “Pick the place,” I told Chris. “I’ll meet you in fifteen.” “Bar 9,” he said haphazardly. I stepped out the door just before nine o’clock. “Be home in an hour,” I told Abbi. Some 900 seconds later, I saddled up to the bar. The Yankees were…

I am almost certainly losing my mind. I’m sitting on the terrace with a cold beer and a bowl full of imitation crabmeat drenched in malt vinegar and Old Bay Seasoning. The imitation part withstanding, it is a flavor ripped straight from my childhood. Though I play up my Iowa roots, the truth is that…

I need a new website. And I need your help. I launched my first web presence in 1996, a clunky looking site called ubiquityltd.com (thusly named after my boutique record label, Ubiquity Ltd. Records — a pun — that I was later forced to cede to its rightful copyright owner, Ubiquity Records). I tried to…

I’d been out of bed just three minutes, but already I’d dropped a ten spot. Sleep was fitful again, at best. Maybe it’s the loratadine. Maybe it’s the blue agave. Maybe it’s all this change I keep talkin’ about. Either way, I was wide awake and clock watchin’ at three o’clock. I lay there tossing,…

In logic normally reserved for toddlers and college sophomores, the decision to whip up and consume two pitchers of margarita was based solely on one fact. I woke with the typical dread I’ve come to associate with Sundays. Behind me, the brief flash of joy that is the weekend fades into rear view. Before me,…