The NyQuil Weekend

We took the day off, reserved the rental car, packed the ski pants, and even MapQuested the route. But alas, it was not to be. You’ll recall that Abbi and I were planning on spending the weekend in Vermont with Chris and Meg Abad. We were going to ski by day, play beer pong at…

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Stress Rx

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.…

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Shiver (Or, Rx Volume II)

Some forty-six blocks downtown, my colleagues are toasting another banner year at the MTV Holiday Party. I just washed down a fistfull of pills with my third fruit smoothy of the night. There’s nothing lamer than reading blog posts about illness, and how this hurts and that hurts and so on. And lord knows I’ve…

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Life In Slow Motion

Today was a little weird, like the morning my jaw was unwired. I was sucker punched by the captain of the football team on the last day of my junior year. I was sixteen-years-old. My jaw was dislocated in both joints and fractured in two places. I spent six weeks with thick wire locking my…

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Sick Of Myself, Part 3

I’ve woken up to a throat full of cotton balls and thumbtacks every morning for a week now. To say that the sensation of choking on my own tongue is getting old is, well, the understatement of the year. Yes, it’s true, I’m still sick. I’ve have spent six days trapped in my apartment, escaping…

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Sick Of Myself, Part 2

When I was a kid, my mother claimed to be able to look me in the eyes and know whether I was sick or not. Today, I’ve been stealing glances in the mirror, and searching my eyes for a diagnosis. I have a tendency to run myself ragged, especially this time of year. It is…

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The Place Where You Live

I have the best ringtone ever. I was a senior in high school when R.E.M. released its first Warner Bros. record, “Green,” on November 8, 1988. The band had (of course) crawled from The South, releasing five sonically and lyrically unique pop albums on IRS Records and setting the bar for what would become “alternative…

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Sick Of Myself

This is how sick I am. I released “Heartland” last week. I released “The Rivington Sessions EP” in July. I released Nadas frontman and

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