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The warm spring breeze that blew me home from the Upper West Side just now reminded me of the Caribbean. It’s not so much that I don’t relish being right here, right now, present tense in New York City. It’s just that it sent my senses reeling… Bermuda, 1985: Scooters, cliff-diving, and caving. Snorkeling, Man-o-Wars,…

A poodle walks into a bar with a pirate under one arm and a bowl of pudding under the other, turns to the bartender and says… “Aaaaaaargh! Got any Cool Whip?” It was that kind of night for The Smith Family: good tunes and bad jokes. It’ll be that kinda’ night a week from Thursday…

There’s nothing like some sunshine, blooming flora, and a coupla’ little kids to make a guy believe in love again. It was such a jam packed weekend. I don’t even know where to start. The theme was blue sky, fresh air, flowers and babies. I mean, what else is there? What could be better? I…

Sometime around the time this picture was taken at Smith Family rehearsal last night I thought to myself, ‘Maybe I’ve taken on just a few more projects than I can manage.’ I have five performances — solo April 24, Smith Family April 29, solo April 30, solo May 20, Cockfight May 21 — and a…

I just woke up from a particularly strange nightmare. So I decided to seize the momentum (me sitting straight up in bed in horror), get a run in, and get my Friday on. All of which is unusual as I stayed up extraordinarily late after a grueling Cockfight rehearsal, and a few hours writing and…

I walked the red carpet last night at the Gen Art Film Festival. There were no flashbulbs. I guess no one recognized me. I was there at Loew’s 68th Street to see ‘Saved!’ I didn’t know it was a premier until I got there. I didn’t know Mandy Moore, Jenna Malone and my new teen…