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I don’t do well in a sky without stars. And by “stars,” I really mean “goals.” I walked out of the office tonight in a foul mood. I rushed through Times Square cranking All American Reject’s “Move Along.” I’ve been rushing around to a bruiser of a soundtrack lately: Guster’s “One Man Wrecking Machine,” Fall…

Sometimes I think this place is haunted. The wind was howling something fierce last night. My walls were creaking at the seams. Things were banging around on my roof. The din finally stirred me from restless sleep at 5:56 this morning. In the confusion of that half-light, I thought maybe someone was trying to break…

What did you expect? It was Monday. The MTV dragged. I felt kinda’ useless. I shipped copies of “The Desert Star” to everyone who pre-ordered it (have you?), and submitted it to CD Baby and iTunes. I did some reading on Bonaire (Abbi and I are going in July!), and generally muddled through. Then I…

We look a little drunk, don’t we? We’re not. We’re on ecstacy. Nils G. Holm’s “Ecstasy Research In The 20th Century” describes the experience thusly: Ecstasy is derived from a Greek word, with the original meaning of removing oneself from a given place. By an extended sense of the word, this implies that the ego…

Judging by the weight of my heart, one would think I’d been found guilty. The charge was felony possession of marijuana. The Defendant was a Haitian man, about 40-years-old. He wore a short Afro, tattered khaki sport coat, matching alligator shoes, and a wedding band. There were six witnesses: three cops, two lab chemists, and…

Being on jury duty and all, I’ve had a lot of time to read. And to think. And I’ve been thinking a lot about my generation. In the Nineties, we were tagged with the now-unfortunate label, “Generation X.” Now, I liked Douglas Coupland’s book as much as the next guy. In fact, I recently picked…