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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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…