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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,…

What follows is an email I sent the entire news department yesterday summarizing the conference last week (thereby making it, quite literally, an “executive summary”). I think it was kinda’ radical to send from within the Big Media firewall. So I thought you might like to read it. Last week’s OnHollywood conference brought Silicon Valley…

There are nineteen different espresso machine models at William-Sonoma. I know this because Abbi and I spent an hour in the Store For Cooks’ Time Warner Center location. We’ve begun our gift registry. I’m probably not the first person to be wary of the great economies sprung forth from Love, American Style (see also “Love,…