Sprinting to the finish |
With barely a week left in 2008, I find myself too busy to think about what a big year it's been. I didn't send out Christmas cards this year, and I'm sorry about that for a number of reasons -- not ...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:03:00 GMT |
Mickey and Judy put on a show |
About four months ago, my friend Matt told me he'd submitted the show he wrote three years ago to the NY Musical Festival, just for fun -- and that the show was a finalist! "That would be so cool," I...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:11:00 GMT |
A New York State of Mind |
Here I am in Brooklyn Heights -- in a Starbucks, to be exact, because my sublet has neither TV nor wireless, and the other people in my building are too smart to leave their wireless service unprotect...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:02:00 GMT |
A message from John McCain |
Hey, you! Reagan Democrat over there! You're a woman, right? You look like a woman, but kids these days keep their hair pretty long ... heh, heh ... and I see freckles. Irish? You're Irish? Yeah...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:15:00 GMT |
It’s Gerard’s fault... |
And it's been a while since I've done one of these:What's going on between you and the last person you kissed?Absolutely nothing, unless you count my best friend's 6-month-old as the last person I kis...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:09:00 GMT |
What I learned at my first EPA |
Different subcultures have their own jargon, and while I used to think that EPA stood for Environmental Protection Agency, now I know that it stands for Equity Prinicipal Auditions. Non-theater types...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:56:00 GMT |
It’s probably a sign... |
You might be doing too much if you fall asleep at the wheel in the middle of the afternoon, on a bright sunshiny day, as I did this afternoon on my way down to Cambridge. Not all the way asleep, than...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:01:00 GMT |
How the mean old lady got that way |
This evening, as I was bringing my dog in from a walk, he stopped to sniff a small heap of spilled cat litter in front of the dumpster in the parking lot. This was mildly gross; I prefer that Dizzy n...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:51:00 GMT |
Not Dark Yet |
At yesterday's (sadly underattended) Maine Festival of the Book, I caught the last 20 minutes of Crystal Zevon's talk about her oral history of Warren Zevon, I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD. Someone asked h...
Posted by on Sun, 18 May 2008 13:35:00 GMT |
Things you won’t see in Los Angeles |
Yesterday afternoon Dizzy and I were down at the river when a man backed up to the boat launch in a blue pickup marked "Animal Relocation Services." We watched as he dropped his tailgate and pulled o...
Posted by on Thu, 15 May 2008 09:09:00 GMT |
