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I'd like to meet:

Dead: Richard Pryor, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Ken Kesey (actually, did meet him) Lester Dent, Walt Disney, Fatty Arbuckle, John Belushi, Thomas Edison, Steven Biko, William Gaines, Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Carson, the guy who invented the modern shoe. Live: George Carlin, Jimmy Carter, Ted Turner, Ahnuld, Ted Kennedy, Nelson Mandela, Steve Martin, Hugh Hefner, Penn & Teller (actually, met them a couple of times too)

My Blog

Anno Horribilis, Anno Mirabilis

Anno Mirabilis, Anno HorribilisOr, to steal from Dickens, the best of times, the worst of times.  It's been a hell of a year.  In the past 12 months I've lost a sister to cancer and an aunt to cardiac...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:54:00 GMT

It’s About Time

Lukas turned 6 months old a few days ago.  If you had told me two years ago that I'd ever nonchalantly interrupt someone's urine stream with the palm of my hand, wait patiently until it ended, th...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:45:00 GMT

Time keeps on slippin’ slippin’ slippin’ into the future

I'm not usually one to share my dreams with others.  The only literal exception is usually when someone wants to tell me about the dream they had last night, in which case I usually mention that ...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:25:00 GMT

Fatherhood

Blogging rate has significantly dropped.  Turns out that being a dad takes more time than not being a dad.  Who'da thunk?  I've had a couple months now as a daddy and I can say unequiv...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:10:00 GMT

The Lukas Chronicles

The Long And Winding Road To Recap: After several years of engaging in the most common method of baby-making without success, we decided to adopt.  May 4, 2007 was the first real milestone in th...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:39:00 GMT

Time Won’t Give Me Time

I'm slowly (sorry, that should read SL O O O O W L L Y Y) putting together a travelblogue of our grand adventure to New Jersey.  Let me just say this in the interim - when people told us about ba...
Posted by on Thu, 29 May 2008 16:35:00 GMT

The Race Is On

Been thinking a lot about Race lately.  Capital R Race, but not Race Bannon, from Johnny Quest.  Race as in melanin apportionment.  And it seems to me that, if all you're thinking about...
Posted by on Sun, 04 May 2008 19:47:00 GMT

Baby Steps

We're almost there.  The birth mother had contractions last week.  She's got three kids, and each of them came three weeks early, so literally at any moment in the next few days we could hea...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:28:00 GMT

One Year Of Movie Blogging

Wow.  The odometer just rolled over.  I've spent a year blogging every single movie I saw.  For the record, from 03/29/07 to 03/29/08, I saw 90 movies.  They were: God Grew Tired O...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:44:00 GMT

Stop Loss

Stop Loss is a welcome return to filmmaking by Kimberly Peirce and her follow-up to 1999’s Boys Don’t Cry.  At first glance, the trailers make it look like The O.C. Goes To War, and i...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:38:00 GMT