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I have no idea how fast I was going, officer, but I know exactly where I am. I’m laying on a towel in Sheep’s Meadow beneath a crisp autumn sky. I have just run Greta’s Great Galop Half Marathon in 1:54:22, my second fastest half of the year. I ran with my iPod, accelerating when…

I was at 8th Street before I realized that I’d jumped the NR the wrong way. Kev was wicked hung over. Seems he’d stayed out late with The Bayou Ramblers. Still, he got a jump on trying to fix ‘New Something.’ Ends up that drummer Tod had missed a beat and sped up the bridge…

Smokey Junglefrog formed at Syracuse University in the fall of 1990. I hung a few flyers around campus and two guys replied: bassist Paul Perreault, and guitarist Jamie Dunphy. We recruited drummer Tod Salmonson and performed our first show in the spring of 1991. The band released three albums in three years, performing in New…

My friend Paul used to say, “I’m not sick. I just have symptoms.” I’ve felt better. But it’s been a long day. I struggled to make it into the 9:30 news meeting on time. And I struggled through the day. Coulda’ been my late night watchin’ documentaries and recording strange songs. Coulda’ been getting soaked…

Oh my gosh, it’s 1 a.m. How in the heck did that happen? The city was gone when looked out the window this morning. All of the buildings were locked in gray. It was pouring rain by the time I was in my first meeting. I snuck out at lunchtime to hand Dough frontman Chris…

I think I know what Stevie Nicks must’ve felt like making ‘Rumours’ with Fleetwood Mac. No, no, no: not the scarves or the mounds of blow or the deviated septum or the fact that I’m schtuping the guitar player. No, it’s that the music is brand new. We’re making it up from nothing right there…