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Ok, this is me cutting the shit. Enough melancholy for a while. Enough of the cryptic, heartbreaking posts. I’ll give you the skinny, then we’ll return to our regularly scheduled rocknroll programming… Yes, yesterday I was in a relationship. No, today I’m not. Letting go? Not easy. Not at all. That’s that. I remain hopeful.…

I am now going to sell five copies of ‘The Three EPs’ by The Beta Band. Do it. Heads begin to bob to the sparse, laconic groove. Knowing glances are exchanged. A wink and a grin. A hipster asks, What is this? ‘The Three EPs’ by The Beta Band. It’s good. I know. Then the…

Every so often, maybe every couple of days, I think to myself, ‘I give up.’ I may give up on work, or writing, running, dreaming, believing, hoping — whatever. Just now, walking out of Starbucks after running along the river in the midwinter morning haze, I gave up on love. Bono says “Love is blindness.”…

At 8:20 this morning, I thought I had all the time in the world. By 8:21, everything had changed. It was at 8:21 that I remembered that I had a dentist appointment 40 blocks away in nine minutes. Miraculously, I made it. I sat in that f’ing chair for over two hours. $750 and one…

About a third of my way into a 60+ block walk home tonight, it occurred to me that the iPod playlist is the mood ring of our time. Tonight? Well, you tell me: Either Way – Guster Bad Reputation – Freedy Johnston Across The Universe – Rufus Wainwright Summer – Buffalo Tom Clocks – Coldplay…

What difference does it make either way? Despite myself, I am smiling (pay no heed to the photo). Perhaps because of my two pint visit to the White Horse Tavern. Perhaps the sushi and Saporo afterwards. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps… I moved to New York ten years ago. I was 22-years-old. I had $400 tucked into…