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I’ve been thinking alot about angels. Before Christmas, it was Gabriel. I’m not sure why. Maybe the Lamb song. Maybe the guy I met on tour. I said, “I’ve been trying to write a song about Gabriel, you know, the angel.” And he goes, “Archangel, dude.” Seems to be an angel is to perform a…

The year’s pretty much sucked it so far. I raced home from the Bahamas on New Year’s Eve only to fall asleep watching (how embarassing) “I, Robot.” I slept clear through the countdown and all the accompanying ballyhoo. Which might have been for the best, except that as a result, there’s no symbolic demarcation for…

I totally lied. On my last post, way back in 2004, I pledged “no more looking back; only looking forward.” But on account of it being New Year’s Day, remaining off the grid due to my cell phone’s travels through the labyrinth of Delta baggage, and spending the balance of the afternoon editing the music…

I am off to Eleuthera in a few hours. I return late New Year’s Eve in time for the NYRRC Midnight Run. This is my last post of the year. Because I have a tendency to occupy all of my time with activities, I am taking only a pair of trunks, shorts, running clothes, my…

I gotta’ admit: Christmas got tolerable on my second martini. It all started out well enough. After waking at the crack of dawn, recording and blogging a bit, I walked to Starbucks which is apparently, and thankfully, organizationally non-denominational. I sat in my big red chair with a viente mild (with a dash of nutmeg…

I woke up well over an our ago. I couldn’t sleep, which was annoying. But when I opened my eyes, I received the best Christmas gift ever. I always woke before dawn on Christmas morning when I was a kid. I was far too excited to sleep. I would kick around in my footsies until…